New York Magazine - 19.08.2019 - 01.09.2019

The CULTURE PAGES

friends: shockingly sweet old photos! / brooklyn vegan megaclub / gentrification isn’t bad / critics / to do

Photograph by Art Streiber

“i don’t know if I’ve ever been a meme before,” Michelle

Williams says, laughing, when I mention the viral clip of her,

as the great Broadway dancer Gwen Verdon, dramatically

wiping a tear off her face in the second episode of FX’s Fosse/

Verdon. Her hand travels up her cheekbone, under her nose,

back behind her head, and then back alongside her cheek, flick-

ing behind her like a windshield wiper in the final beat as if to

rid herself of Sam Rockwell’s Bob Fosse, the legendary chore-

ographer and director, Verdon’s sometime husband and longer-

63

W i l l i a m s/ Ver don

Thanks to Michelle Williams,

now we all know Gwen Verdon was a star.

By Jackson McHenry