Julie Harris, Growing In Stages; A `Survivor' Returns to Her Theater Roots in `Miss Daisy'

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 9, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

Julie Harris is asked to come up with the three adjectives that best describe her.

"Three adjectives?," she says, more to herself than anyone else. "Hmmmmm."

At 62, she is arguably the foremost actress of her generation, but sitting in a swollen hotel armchair that tends to make her look even tinier than she is, she could be a nervous schoolgirl who wants very much to make good on the English test.

The effort puts little furrows in her brow. She bites her lower lip. Finally, in a voice as delicate as parchment, she says, "Tough."

She thinks some more.

"Stubborn," she says. Fearful ...

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