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Sex harassment comes of age in HBO’s ‘Confirmation’

When Anita Hill accused then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, the graphic Senate hearings riveted the country.

Twenty-five years on, writer and producer Susannah Grant says few women under the age of 30 have ever heard of Hill, which is one of the reasons she felt compelled to revisit the story for the HBO film "Confirmation," which premieres on Sunday.

"This has not been written into our cultural history in a way that anyone younger than 38 or so is aware of. I think it important that people know because everybody who . . .