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Thus the snowy Canadian winter passed in a zing. One unexpected treat for me was the arrival, shortly after myself, of veteran film star Lori Breckner, who had been my date for the 1998 Academy Awards ceremony, and who played opposite me in the critically successful box-office dud Car Crash 500. ("Yes, Don, I know movies are young young young. But what do a bunch of brats in Glendale know about pain...
...happy, happy time. Lori and I would sit by the windows, sharing our hopes and dreams about how much our new children would love us, of how we could steer them away from certain types of drugs that they might have too much fun with and toward those cosmetic procedures that would flatter their looks. "Imagine," Lori dreamed aloud one night. "Knowing what seasons your colors are before you're even born! Lucky, lucky children...
While sipping Reverse-Scriptase martinis, Lori and I glanced outside to see the hundreds of beautiful Hereford mommies, glorious and dumb as posts under the great Canadian sky, chewing vitaminized, antibioticized alfalfa while inside each of them our own future little fan clubs incubated. "Look, over there, the one with a white patch on the eye, No. 388--that's yours, honey!" Bliss...
...Lori and I discussed how we would transmute all our self-knowledge into our clones so completely that when we died we would technically still be alive--our "death" merely being a technical bookkeeping notation. Imagine feeling as if you are sharing a soul with five others! Lori was indeed a special woman to me. She was the only one I'd met who could connect with me on my own level. We were fated for each other...
...must bring to ...first do no harm" a tolerance for lines like Lori's anguished "Please don't let him die!" But most of the piece has a steely passion that is evident in Ward's frazzled manliness and, especially, in Streep's carefully natural performance. She has the small gestures and tight, hectoring voice of a woman untrained for heroism, and, finally, the exhaustion of a longtime caregiver. It's been said of Streep that she learns each new role as if it were a foreign language. Here, though, she's acting, not Acting--inhabiting the part rather than...