Stephen Sondheim

‘Love’ story

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Linda Lavin, theater and TV star, says making records, like her new album “Love Notes,” is “the most creative I know how to be without writing. I use what other people have written to explain how I feel or what I’ve been through or what I hope for.”

Beyond the cliff

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Gretchen Carlson, who describes being fired from Fox News in 2016 – and her subsequent sexual harassment suit against its then chairman, Roger Ailes – as “jumping off a cliff,” has found her footing.