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Molly Haskell

Molly Haskell

American film critic and authorWikipedia

Search complete. 2 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Molly Haskell".

Sep 23, 2026

Lucy SanteGUEST
3:06
He was a little doctrinaire, and he kind of stiff in the writing.
Lucy SanteGUEST
3:11
And you really saw that by contrast when he got married to Molly Haskell and compared her writing to his.
Lucy SanteGUEST
3:17
Archer Winston had been there since the dawn of time at the New York Post.
Lucy SanteGUEST
3:22
John Simon, I think, did some film reviewing at the time.
Vito RussoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:09
But I think for the purposes of my book, what I was writing about, it was enough to know that there is something in the American character... which abhors weakness of any kind and that women in our society are perceived to be fundamentally weak and helpless.
Vito RussoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:27
In Molly Haskell's book, From Reverence to Rape, she opens by saying that the big lie about women on the American screen is that women are powerless.
Vito RussoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:35
And we know from experience that we don't know whether it's the chicken or the egg.
Vito RussoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:39
It's the same thing with gays.

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