Linda Lavin Dies: 'Alice' Star & Tony-Winning Broadway Actor Was 87

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1. The first time I heard of Linda Lavin

It was around 1973 and a friend of mine from work had gotten married, and she and her husband started renting a brownstone apartment in Manhattan. But after they had been living there awhile, she confided to me that it was sometimes awkward because she and her husband would have to walk through the living room of the first-floor apartment where the building's owners lived to get to the staircase going up to their apartment. But luckily the owners weren't home much because they were actors. I asked her their names, but when she told me I had to admit I had never heard of either of them: Ron Liebman and Linda Lavin!