My First Hundred Years In Show Business: A Memoir - Plot & Excerpts
In one long fallow period, I decided I would go into the landscaping business. I worked with an insane Frenchman planting ornamental evergreens in the pouring rain and mud. Another time I thought I might teach acting at the local college, SUNY New Paltz, and I went to an interview with the head of the drama department. He effectively prevented me from submitting my résumé by giving me his critiques of current Broadway plays, pelting me with names like Betty Buckley and Patti LuPone while sitting at a desk in a small clearing of a jungle of men’s suits and coats; apparently the men’s costume department. I spent a year in a writing course at Columbia University. The professor encouraged my writing, but when he announced to the class one day, “You can’t do it alone!” I was daunted. On another seemingly interminable hiatus, in a moment of incipient hysteria I walked into a secretarial hiring office and tried to talk to the lady behind the desk, explaining in low, modest terms that I was an actress, but I had been a secretary before that and now would like to get back into that line of work.
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