audra was by no means the best-known or the best-loved actress in the world , but she was certainly part of the celebrity coinage that had somehow replaced talent as a medium of exchange in the latter half of the twentieth century ; there had been a picture of her in people magazine when she cut her hair short , and during a particularly boring stretch in new york ( the play she had been planning to do off broadway fell through ) she had done a week-long stint on holly wood squares , over her agent 's strenuous objections .