The Onion gets Teri Gross levels of candor, fuck-it-all, and wit from Teri Garr in this interview. I always liked her - I think she was an early girlcrush of mine, who could do vulnerability without stupidity.

And she calls the industry to the carpet. Seriously. And also gives you some idea of how she navigated it:

AVC: So in your autobiography, you say that you had trouble landing an audition around the time of Tootsie. Yet here you were with three of the biggest movies of the ’70s—Close Encounters, Young Frankenstein, and Oh, God!—and you still weren’t considered a star?

TG: I know! I can’t figure it either. But it’s always been hard to get my foot in the door, so it’s made me cling to insecurities. “Oh, they don’t like me!” But once I got those chances, it opened up more opportunities. Thank God. I don’t know why, but it was always hard for me. Did you read the part about when I auditioned for West Side Story? I used to read the trades when I was in high school, and I would go to all these auditions. I auditioned for West Side Story and got kicked out. A couple days later, my friend said she was going to the callbacks, and I said, “I’m going with you.” And she said, “You can’t go! You got dinged!” And I said, “I don’t care. Now I know what they want.” So I went back and I got the job, just by being pushy and ornery. And that’s how I figured out how to get jobs in this town.

Read this, just drop what you’re doing and read this.