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Actress Meryl Streep and actor Alan Alda have accepted the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Woman and Man of the Year Awards...
Mimi Oka '81, the Pudding's publicity manager, confirmed the selection yesterday and will officially announce the awards today. The show's producers are "very pleased" and believe that Streep and Alda are a "timely choice," she said...
...accounts of heroes who toy with women to satisfy selfish neurotic needs. Blake Edwards' hit "10" is a touching farce that punctures the childish sexual fantasies of a male-menopause victim. In Starting Over, Burt Reynolds turns from a newly liberated wife to an equally liberated lover; Alan Alda's The Seduction of Joe Tynan tells much the same tale from a more somber perspective...
...does it and makes it inevitable. Her role in The Seduction of Joe Tynan as the other woman, having an affair with a married U.S. Senator, also placed her in an uneven struggle for audience sympathy. Many would argue that Meryl won hands down. Recalls Co-Star Alan Alda: "When she blew Tynan a kiss at the airport after their affair, that was Meryl's own inspiration. It was her way of conveying that she didn't get what she wanted, but she was taking life on her own terms...
...SCREENPLAY strains with the Kennedy model and an intrusive Hollywood morality. But the excellences in character acting balance any such flaws. Melvyn Douglas, a reliable old pro, plays the aging, once powerful Senator Birney, whose friendship Tynan must betray. Alda's best moments come when he is Douglas's foil; Tynan feels contempt for the old man's politics but cannot help sympathizing when Birney lapses into senility and the Cajun tongue of his youth. Rip Torn plays a hilarious cameo as the libidinous buffoon, Sen. Ritner...