Valerie Harper — best remembered for playing sassy Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — is coming to Washington to play glamorous bad-girl Tallulah Bankhead in “Looped,” a play premiering June 4 at the Arena Stage at the Lincoln Theater.
Q: What’s the last movie you saw?
“Duplicity”
Q: What book are you reading?
Just finished a pictorial of Tallulah and I’m reading Brendan Gill’s “Tallulah.” I also just finished “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” by Michael Chabon. I want to go back now and read “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.”
Q: What Web sites do you visit first in the morning?
I don’t. I am ashamed. I promise that this year I’m going to learn how to use a computer.
Q: What’s your favorite TV show?
“Everybody Loves Raymond,” CNN, I love Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. And “In Treatment” with Gabriel Byrne.
Q: What are you currently listening to?
Gipsy Kings, Ella Fitzgerald, Norah Jones
