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Her Again

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by Michael Schulman


  Courtesy of Michael Booth.

  Her breakout role at the Yale School of Drama, the eighty-year-old “translatrix” Constance Garnett in The Idiots Karamazov. Christopher Durang, kneeling on right, played Alyosha.

  Photo by William Baker, Courtesy of William Ivey Long

  Her Broadway debut, in Trelawny of the “Wells.”

  Photo by George E. Joseph/© Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

  As Hallelujah Lil in Happy End.

  Photo by Martha Swope/© Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

  “We sense the sexual give-and-take between her and Angelo,” the Times critic wrote of her performance in Measure for Measure, opposite John Cazale.

  Illustration © Paul Davis

  John Cazale.

  Photofest

  With Cazale at Lee Strasberg’s seventy-fifth birthday party. “The jerk made everything mean something,” she said later. “Such good judgment, such uncluttered thought.”

  Irv Steinberg/Globe Photos, Inc.

  Shooting The Deer Hunter with Michael Cimino and Robert De Niro.

  Universal Pictures/Photofest © Universal Pictures

  With Chuck Aspegren, De Niro, and Cazale, in the wedding scene that seemed to go on forever. Cazale didn’t survive to see the film. Of the five movies he acted in, all were Oscar-nominated for Best Picture. He never got a nomination.

  Photo by Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images.

  “I think he just hated my character,” she said of Woody Allen, who cast her as his ex-wife in Manhattan. Below, reading Germaine Greer backstage at The Taming of the Shrew.

  United Artists/Photofest © United Artists

  Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images.

  Joanna leaves Ted in the opening scene of Kramer vs. Kramer.

  Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia Pictures

  Ted’s lawyer asks, “Were you a failure at the one most important relationship in your life?”

  Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia Pictures.

  Meeting the queen at a royal screening of Kramer vs. Kramer.

  Photo by Graham Turner/Getty Images

  Trying and failing to share a private moment with Don Gummer.

  Photo by Art Zelin/Getty Images.

  Photo by ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  MICHAEL SCHULMAN is a contributor and arts editor at The New Yorker. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, and other publications. He lives in Manhattan.

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  HER AGAIN. Copyright © 2016 by Michael Schulman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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