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Article: A long-lost Love: Ali MacGraw comes out of hiding to appear on Broadway for the first time.(THE CULTURE PAGES)
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- April 3, 2006
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AS ALI MACGRAW sits down in a corner booth of Trattoria Dell'Arte, having come straight from rehearsal, she wants to make one thing immediately, abundantly clear. She's absolutely terrified of bombing on Broadway. "I am not being coy," she says. "I'm scared shitless."
MacGraw, now 67, vanished from public sight long ago, in almost Greta Garbo-like fashion. And depending on your own age, it is both nostalgia-inducing and a little startling to see her again, as if the earnestly beautiful heroine of Love Story had just woken up from a 36-year coma Back in the Nixon era, she was one of the most famous actresses on the planet, the "It" girl on the covers of magazines ...