Over a 60-year-career, Ross largely invented the modern entertainment profile many of her signature pieces are now collected in Reporting Always. In an undated handout photo, Lillian Ross with actor Robin Williams. (Here's Jack L Warner, president of Warner Bros, in a passage from Lassie: "Don't worry!" he roars, slapping the backs of the lesser men around him, "congress can't last forever!") Reading Come in, Lassie! her rollicking sketch of a Hollywood under siege from the Committee on Un-American Activities, you can't help but wish Ross were covering the 2016 presidential campaign. By mid-century, she had made journalistic history by pioneering the kind of novelistic nonfiction that inspired later work like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Film director John Huston called her "kid", and Ernest Hemingway, simply, "daughter".Ī dogged young reporter with an elfin face and a cap of dark curls, Lillian Ross started working at The New Yorker in 1945, welcomed into the void left by the male reporters and editors who had gone off to serve in World War II, although she was paid far less. New Yorker wit James Thurber nicknamed her "the girl with the built-in tape recorder", for her uncanny ear for dialogue.
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