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| • | "she'd just portrayed another tough-minded writer, Lillian Hellman, in 'Cakewalk' in 1996. Lavin says that although she found it thrilling to play Hellman, 'she just about killed me! She died when she was 87, and she was still smoking in the hospital with the oxygen tank attached to her mouth and nose. I did a great deal of smoking during that play' ... Now, with a few years of distance, Lavin says she's glad the role of Ruth Steiner has come into her life again. And apparently she's also recovered from the smoke-a-thon; her lunch arrives with sides Hellman herself might have requested: vodka, two olives and two cigarettes daintily delivered on a saucer", Los Angeles Times, Jun. 3, '99 |
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