"Arguably the smartest person ever to perform in the genre that gave us Green Acres. Exposed to Shakespeare as an infant β her mother, Diane, a former junior high reading teacher, would read aloud from his plays β Witt was able to recite from Romeo and Juliet and the sonnets at 2. By then, on some cognitive tests she was scoring at the level of a high school senior."
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Tom Gliatto, in "Genius at Work" in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)
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