Who is this Anita Gates you speak of?

A.G.’s journalistic triumphs over 25 years at The New York Times include drinking with Bea Arthur (at a Trump hotel), Wendy Wasserstein (at an Italian restaurant) and Peter O’Toole (in his trailer on a mini-series set near Dublin). It is sheer coincidence that these people are now dead.

At The New York Times, she has been Arts & Leisure television editor and co-film editor, a theater reviewer on WQXR Radio, a film columnist for the Times TV Book and an editor in the Culture, Book Review, Travel, National, Foreign and Metro sections. Her first theater review for The Times appeared in 1997, assessing “Mrs. Cage,” a one-act about a housewife suspected of shooting her favorite supermarket box boy. The review was mixed.

Outside The Times, A.G. has been the author of four nonfiction books; a longtime writer for travel magazines, women's magazines and travel guidebooks; a lecturer at universities and for women’s groups; and a moderator for theater, book, film and television panels at the 92nd Street Y and the Paley Center for Media.

If she were a character on “Mad Men,” she’d be Peggy.

BEANIE FELDSTEIN, BEANIE FELDSTEIN, BEANIE FELDSTEIN

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A FACE IN THE CROWD Beanie Feldstein is set to play Fanny Brice in the revival of “Funny Girl,” coming to Broadway in April 2022.

IMAGINE THAT IT’S A year from now. “Who is Beanie Feldstein?” somebody says. (You’re at a party. A big, crowded party. Let’s pretend.) You begin to laugh hysterically.

What kind of pop-culture idiot doesn’t know who Beanie Feldstein is?

She’s the actor Jonah Hill’s little sister. She’s a proud gay woman (her partner, last we heard, is Bonnie Chance Roberts, a British producer). Oh, yeah, and she plays Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl” and has been since it opened last spring at the Broadway Theater (or wherever it ends up) in New York. She probably has a Tony Award on her shelves by now.

So, just for the record:

Real name: Elizabeth Greer Feldstein (a baby sitter nicknamed her Beanie)

Age: 28 (born June 24, 1993)

Home: Los Angeles

Parents: Her father is a financial guy for Guns ‘n Roses. Her mother is a costume designer

Alma mater: Wesleyan University, class of 2015, sociology major

Broadway debut: “Hello, Dolly” (2017). She played Minnie Fay, the naive young assistant at the hat shop who goes to the Harmonia Gardens with Barnaby.

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‘IT’S THE TITULAR ROLE’ In the film “Lady Bird,” Feldstein explains to Saoirse Ronan who the Tempest is in “The Tempest.”

Future film: “Merrily We Roll Along,” scheduled for release in 2039 (at the earliest), starring with Ben Platt (a close friend since high school) in Stephen Sondheim’s early musical. Honestly. It’s filming every year — like “Boyhood,” you know — and it’s also from Richard Linklater.

More future film: “The Humans,” based on Stephen Karem’s Tony-winning one-act play.

TV: “What We Do in the Shadows” (2019), “My Wife and Kids’ (2002), “Madison High” (2012), “Orange Is the New Black” (2015)

Up next: She’s Monica Lewinsky in “Impeachment,” the third season of “American Crime Story.” She’s everywhere!

Cutest quote (after seeing the Harry Potter show in London, story told on “Late Show With Stephen Colbert”): “Dumbedore knows who I am!”

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