| The actress and writer Molly Ringwald has worked, it seems, with nearly everyone. In this week’s New Yorker, Ringwald recounts collaborating with the French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard, who died in September, on his eccentric 1987 adaptation of “King Lear.” Then still a teen-ager, Ringwald had been acting since childhood, and had been nominated for a Golden Globe after her first role in a feature film. Being a veteran at a young age, however, also meant that she was introduced to misconduct early on. In 2017, at the height of the #MeToo reckoning, Ringwald wrote for The New Yorker about her long career as an actress and the myriad men who abused their power to manipulate or violate her—among them Harvey Weinstein. “We all seem to have a Harvey story, each one a little different but with essentially the same nauseating pattern and theme,” she wrote. Compared to other actresses, Ringwald survived her encounter relatively unscathed. “Thankfully, I wasn’t cajoled into a taxi, nor did I have to turn down giving or getting a massage,” she recalled. “I was lucky. Or perhaps it was because, at that moment in time, I was the one with more power.” | 
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