Eve Ensler in New York and Paris but travels much of the year." A June 2010 article by Ensler in "The Guardian" stated that she was receiving treatment for uterine cancer. Ensler wrote about her experience with cancer in her memoir, "In The Body of the World". Ensler wrote "The Vagina Monologues" in 1996. First performed in the basement of the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, the play has been translated into 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. Celebrities who have starred in it include Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Idina Menzel, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon, Marin Mazzie, Cyndi Lauper,
Glenn Close Close began to appear in television movies rather than doing theatrical films in the early 2000s. She returned as Cruella de Vil in "102 Dalmatians" (2000). Although the film received mixed reviews, it performed well at the box office. Close later filmed "The Safety of Objects" which premiered in 2001, a movie about four suburban families dealing with maladies. This was Kristen Stewart's first film role, and Close and Stewart would later reunite in the 2015 film "Anesthesia". Close starred in "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her" in the same year, this would be one of many