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Kim Stanley on Marilyn Monroe
"I wish more of us had had the courage to help her forget about the night visits and the jabbing. To walk her to safer places. Safe among friends.”
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Mrs. Kennedy at the Moment
Should she redecorate the nation? Preside over the April-in-Paris Ball? Marry Adlai Stevenson? Advice comes from every quarter, as the lady recedes…
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The Night Ed Murrow Struck Back
It had to be done on television— and there was only one man who could do it
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Gadg!
The catalyst as a hero: director Elia Kazan
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Harold Pinter on Hell
"Hell, for me, will be a world in which everyone has an opinion that is based on little or no experience. A sense of entitlement without any sense or…
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Mildred Natwick on BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
"Mike Nichols—and I’ve said this before—never said a word that wasn’t absolutely perfect."
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Marian Seldes: Hell
"I think guilt is a kind of hell, and I think Tennessee [Williams] felt guilty about his gifts being misused or not used wisely."
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Maureen Stapleton: Knowing Without Feeling
"I think we can try to know too much about some things, and I don’t see too many examples of people feeling too much about anything that doesn’t concern…
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June 2025

Candice Bergen: What I Did Last Summer
A show-and-tell version, in five scenes
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Marlon Brando's Dopp Kit
"I would load my Dopp kit with patience. If I had patience—and I do not—I would be able to forgive, to wait, to breathe, to consider."
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Arthur Penn on Estelle Parsons
"Estelle is really alive and almost levitating with talent and energy in that part. She was—she is—so fearless."
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Dressed in Rage: From the Stalker Files
Meet some members of my court of stalkers.
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