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Ivy Meeropol’s Cinematic Celebration of E. Jean Carroll

Detail from the poster for Ask Jean.

Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg— and the director of Heir to an Execution, a landmark documentary about insidious Roy Cohn —is back on track with a new film about E. Jean Carroll, the gonzo journalist who won two lawsuits against Donald Trump, for rape and defamation of character. The good news about Ask E. Jean is that Trump himself is rarely on the screen. Over the past decade or so, the world has seen and heard far too much from Trump.

Ask E. Jean honors a brave, ballsy, intelligent woman who belongs to the same generation as Angela Davis and Bernardine Dohrn and is a near contemporary of Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, and who has battled for women’s rights in magazine columns, hard-hitting and........

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