For fans of the late legendary journalist Molly Ivins, one of the many things to lament about her passing is that she didn’t live to see the Trump presidency. The Lone Star State native would have …
In a career of more than 30 years as a reporter and columnist, Ivins displayed a particular gift for skewering politicians, especially those from her home state. She wrote of one House Republican from Texas, “If his IQ slips any lower we’ll have to water him twice a day.” And it was she who dubbed George W. Bush “Shrub,” warning her readers about what kind of president he would make.
Engel describes the lesson Ivins drew from that observation: “When you grow up in the South and you grow up in segregation you sooner or later realize that people are lying to you, including your parents…She started to question [things] at a really young age.”Ivins rebelled against her father and his ideology, cultivating a distaste for authority.
Ivins would find her true calling as a columnist, based initially at the Dallas Times Herald and then the. Her fame grew as her column became syndicated, reaching 400 papers at one point. She made memorable television appearances displaying her sharp wit, some of them to promote her books, includingRaise Hell
“I didn’t want to do a hagiography and it’s clearly not that,” Engel insists. “We needed to show Molly warts and all. She was a three-dimensional person.”, distributed by Magnolia Pictures, has earned more than $600,000 in nine weeks of theatrical release. The film eventually will migrate to Hulu’s streaming platform, Engel says.
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