Word: meryl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...membership had its privileges. For as little as $55 a year, consumers could twinkle in fellowship with such glitterati as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ella Fitzgerald and Meryl Streep. All one had to do was wave one's little piece of green, gold or platinum plastic, and waiters and clerks would fawn prettily. Such potent snob appeal once seemed irresistible -- until American Express "cardmembers" began weighing the costs of privilege against the benefits of more plebeian credit cards. While the AmEx elite shelled out annual fees, Discover clients were issued free cards. Amex users had to pay their bills in full each...
...MERYL STREEP...
...where police are always nestled anyway to protect Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, D.A. Gil Garcetti and several judges who live there. The homeowner's association hires 24-hour plainclothes security men, who watch over the homes of Angela Lansbury, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, Roseanne Arnold, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. In fact, some neighbors of Nicole's had a confession of their own. They hoped that O.J. had done it, that this was a classic crime of passion, something insanely logical, that it hadn't been a random killer who had punctured their security. "You know...
...spirit is especially infectious to actors. Take Meryl Streep, for instance. In the early passages she's obliged to play a woman half her age, and one blessed with precognitive powers too. Later on, she turns up as a ghost. But she just sails gloriously through both incarnations, utterly untroubled by doubts in herself or August's enterprise. That's true of her co- stars too. When Irons ages, he adopts an oddly strangled tone that should make you want to laugh. But it doesn't -- at least while the movie's on. Glenn Close as his ferociously virginal sister...
With a blank gaze in her eyes and a ghostly expression, Meryl Streep, who studied psychics for her role as Clara is a spiritual but uninspired clairvoyant. Glenn Close is slightly more intriguing as Ferula, Esteban's repressed older sister, whose relationships with Clara develops lesbian undertones...