Grandmother of ‘Ivy Nepo Baby’ Ramona Sarsgaard was a radical herself—and her best friend would go on to lead the Weather Underground
Runs in the family.
The grandmother of an anti-Israel protest this week at Columbia University — was also a radical in college.
“I went wild,” screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal told The New York Times in 2004 of her time at Columbia’s sister school, Barnard College, where her best friend was Eleanor Stein, who went on to become a fugitive leader of the terror group Weather Underground.
The radical leftist outfit undertook a number of attacks in the US, including the infamous March 1970 accidental bombing of a Greenwich Village townhouse.
“I still thought we could do it in the system,” recalled Naomi, now 79, who used Stein’s time on the run as inspiration for her 1988 flick, “Running on Empty,” about a family of fugitives on the run from the FBI after a bombing.
