Appreciating Jill Clayburgh

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Times film critic Betsy Sharkey offers an appreciation of actress Jill Clayburgh, who died Friday of leukemia at age 66.

Clayburgh, twice nominated for an Academy Award, portrayed characters that were ‘flawed, vulnerable, feisty, funny, sometimes steely and always smart.’ Sharkey wrote.

‘They were a better, more beautiful version of what many of us wanted to be, but only slightly. Like everything else about Clayburgh, her beauty was subtle, never showy.’

You can read the appreciation here and Clayburgh’s news obituary here.

-- Keith Thursby