The low-key dominance of Lois Smith, star of new film `Marjorie Prime`
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Walking through a driving blizzard last January, the actress Lois Smith took the arm of an agent and posed a directional question. `So is this where I should step?` Smith asked as her foot hovered above a treacherous curb in the old town of Park City, Utah, during the Sundance Film Festival. `It...