Kelly Bishop was already immortalized for being in the original cast of A Chorus Line, a smash hit about the journeymen players who work so hard in theater and are always “20 feet from stardom.” Bishop was one of the few onstage to actually build a major career from that triumph to steady excellent work as in Dirty Dancing Then she found a new peak with Gilmore Girls,

Our recommended books this week include two substantial new biographies: one a reassessment of Ronald Reagan and his legacy, the other an account of the estimable partnership between the Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson and his American wife,