Judge Kavanaugh and a charge from decades ago

During Hollywood’s golden age, director Howard Hawks was making a movie called “His Girl Friday,” based on Ben Hecht’s Broadway hit, “The Front Page.” The role of journalist Hildy Johnson, a male character in the play, went to actress Rosalind Russell. Her performance in the film became “a role model for American women braving the male-dominated workforce,” in the words of one biographer.
Russell’s Hildy Johnson was brassy, funny, fearless an