As is the case with most support staffers, Salducci, now 70, was privy to the most top-secret shenanigans of her higher-ups. With her red-framed glasses, big barrel-rolled hair, and strong New York accent, she was the breakout star of Emergency on Line 1, a 2007 Sundance documentary about showbiz assistants, in which she described herself as a “tough bitch with a long memory.” When we met at her rent-controlled apartment in Astoria, Queens, and I congratulated her on the success of that film, she promised that she had “tons of other color” up her sleeve. To my delight, and occasionally my
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