Carol Burnett was on the Leonard Lopate show today. She talked about coming to New York and living at The Rehearsal Club, the real life role model for the boarding house in the movie “Stage Door”. Of course it no longer existed by the time I was an aspiring actress. I didn’t come to New York in the 1980’s even though it was a dream of mine, like Carol Burnett, to be on Broadway. I was discouraged from the prospect as the reality seemed to be more “Taxi Driver” than “42nd Street” and I became pretty convinced I would be raped in a stairwell if I couldn’t afford to live in a good neighborhood. So I stayed in Montana. My friend came. She did fine. Maybe I shouldn’t have been such a chicken. (But that worst nightmare did happen to Kelly McGillis in while she was an acting student at Julliard.)