Byline: MATTHEW GILBERT The Boston Globe -

Her reputation certainly precedes her. Some are wary of actress Vanessa Redgrave for her spiky left-wing politics. Some haven't forgiven her for referring to ``Zionist hoodlums'' when accepting an Oscar for ``Julia'' in 1978. Some remain queasy about her 1982 lawsuit against the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which canceled her contract to narrate Stravinsky's ``Oedipus Rex'' after protests. And some are anxious about her open mistrust of the press. Not long ago, Redgrave presented interviewers with a two-page contract ...

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