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The Last Day I(subjeck) Spent With Gilda Radner In 1975, at the brand-new “Saturday Night Live,” Lorne Michaels, with a tiny budget, hired three superb women to join the cast — Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner. Sketch comedy requires performers who can shed their(possessive adj) personalities instantly. With characteristic prescience, Lorne saw this ability in those three. (Today, female comedians are often stand-ups — Ellen DeGeneres, Samantha Bee — who don’t morph into someone else in the middle of their shows.) Gilda Radner was a gifted, ebullient, wildly physical performer who disappeared into her characters right down to their souls. Tragically, she died at 42, in 1989. A documentary about her(object) will have its premiere Wednesday at the Tribeca Film Festival. News of the film zinged my memory of our last day together, one summer in the late ’80s. Gilda had a big, antique, rich person’s house near Stamford, Conn., where you could find fun, cool, opulent rel