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Although her Three Sisters character isn't based on any one person, Taylor relates Irina to Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz because of their mutual "yearning to go back home," be it Kansas or Moscow

"I'd say, for differences." 
Artistic differences? 
Grave smile. "We had mutual dislike, me and the faculty." Did you behave like Valerie Solanis? "No, no. No! I wish I had ...Valerie is... I don't know anybody like Valerie." A laugh. "Her one chance at infamy, and it really got eclipsed by [Robert F.] Kennedy"--whose assassination the next night wiped the Warhol shooting out of the news and off the map. "She was really pissed off at that." 
Chicago, flat and broad, is still all over actress Taylor's non-acting tongue, and "Irina" came out, there in the espresso shop, as "Eye-reena." When her ear caught the interviewer's less emphatic pronunciation, she added that gratefully to her incubation. 
No, she didn't think her own Irina would based on anybody in particular she'd ever known. "It's probably like an amalgam; that's what usually works for me. I wouldn't want to pin it to one person. That would be to limit myself." 
Pause. 
"When you ask me that, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz comes to mind. The yearning to go back home"--to Kansas, to Mosvow. "Because I have a yearning to go back home--but it's not the same home as when I was a child. The present is a bit harsh." 
Lili Taylor, born Feb. 20, 1967, in the city that the next year would be tear-gassing kids the whole world watching, is the second youngest of the six children of Park and Marie Taylor. Her father, she said, is now a folk artist for whom Lili is trying to find a New York gallery; her mother is a professional baby-sitter these days. 
In one recent year--from August 1994 to August 1995--their daughter appeared before the cameras in six motion. 

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sure; we do things- I've directed three and been in maybe four- at the One Dream Theatre" [in TriBeCa]. 

A couple of days earlier she had just met, for the first time, some of her fellow Roundabout actors: Amy Irving, the play's Olga, Jeanne Tripplehorn (Marsha), David Strathairn (Vershinin), Eric Stoltz (Solyony).

Last April another person she hadn't known, Scott Elliott, took her to lunch at the Union Square coffee shop and offered her the part of Irina.

"He's a very strong personality, very blunt. He said: 'I don't think you should wait any longer. You should do this play- take Irina's journey- at this point in your life.' I said: 'Okay, you sold me.'"

Valerie Solanis would have cheered. She never made it to Moscow either.

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A New Play by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of DRIVING MISS DAISY, Alfred Uhry, staged by DAISY's original director, Ron Lagomarsino

PREVIEWS BEGIN FEBRUARY 7
Opens February 27
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