How ‘Coward. Bully. Victim’ Filmmaker Told the Story of Roy Cohn, the Man Behind Her Grandparents’ Deaths
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorRoy Cohn had always beena haunting presence in filmmaker Ivy Meeropol’s life, but the full extent of his existence was only apparent after she watched Meryl Streep play her grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg, in HBO’s 2003 “Angels in America.” “I think seeing the film made me finally connect emotionally to my human story, and this was a story I needed to tell,” Meeropol says. “I could do something no one else could because of my family history.”The result is the documentary “Bully.