Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well before she played Joanna, the wife who walks out on Dustin Hoffman and their son in Kramer vs. Kramer, an astonishing public clamor had set up around this almost gawky-looking blond, all bones and angles. When Kramer opened, the outcry redoubled. Though the script was weighted too much toward sympathy for Hoffman and the boy, Streep brought the film back into balance. By playing Joanna as a woman baffled and hurt not simply by her husband's shortcomings but by her own failures, she gave it a subtlety it would not have otherwise possessed...
...reviews of Kramer were rapturous, and she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. But the din from feature writers eager to probe her personal life was oppressive to Streep, a private person who feels (following the fashion of Actor Robert De Niro and some lordly professional athletes) that newsprint could wrap fish even better if reporters did not go through the messy and wasteful process of putting...
...Kramer vs. Kramer notwithstanding, single fathers are a rare commodity in the U.S. When they meet, they tend to fall on each other's necks to share grievances and housekeeping secrets. Gene Ratkowski, who was listening as he drove to the airport, instantly pulled his '79 Subaru to the side of the road, phoned McCarthy and asked: "When's the meeting?" Now, six months later, the meeting is every Tuesday night, when 20 to 30 single dads gather, often at McCarthy's ranch-style home on Humboldt Hill. They include doctors, students, mechanics, a bus driver...
...Bruce Emerson, as 4 1 1 2 TOTALS 40 15 11 9 PITCHING IP H R ER BB K Bill Doyle 51 9 7 6 2 0 Dave Wanger 3.1 6 4 3 1 0 Tony Presnal 1.1 5 6 6 1 2 Steve Kramer...
Winning Pitcher: Kramer (4-3); Losing Pitcher: Wanger...