Hollywood has a new star: Gloria Steinem, 86, who launchedMs.magazine 48 years ago.
America; and Christine Lahti, 70, inGloria: A Life(PBS, June 26).
Lahti plays Steinem telling her life story to a women’s group, then Steinem joins her onstage.
My daughter used to put Barbie clothes on the Emmy and Ken-doll clothes on the Oscar, Lahti says.
In real life the actress is pals with Steinem.
After her parents split, when she was 11, Steinem became her mother’s caregiver.
Steinem changed Lahti’s life.
They threw me this life jacket, Gloria and other feminists like Robin Morgan and Betty Friedan.
Without them, when I was in college, my life might have gone a very different way.
They helped me navigate a world that I found did not like or respect women very much.
I said, Gloria, tell me more about the worst things you did to your mother.
If I’m cutting too close to the bone, tell me.
She said, Look, if it’s not honest, it won’t be helpful.
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