Word: meryl
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...Meryl Streep, 41, dominates serious film roles as no actress has before. She gets about $4 million a picture, a fraction of the booty commanded by the dozen or so male stars with whom the world is on a first-name basis (Arnold, Sly, Bruce, Jack, Eddie, Tom . . .). And her sisters on the screen make far less in far fewer roles. "If the trend continues," Streep told a SAG women's conference last summer, "by the year 2000 women will represent 13% of all roles. And in 20 years we will have been eliminated from movies entirely. But that...
...happen. High-budget action movies will always require a bimbo, a girlfriend. And films with an eye toward Oscar will always need Meryl Streep. But the trend of bigger men in bigger movies will continue as long as the international audience pays to see them. In her one blockbuster of the '80s, Out of Africa, Streep took second billing to Robert Redford. And if industry solons grumble when an Eddie Murphy movie makes only $60 million (Harlem Nights) or $80 million (Another 48 HRS), should they cheer when the Streep- Fisher Postcards hits $40 million...
Postcards from the Edge Hollywood has so much fun hating itself that the venom can taste like fine wine. Carrie Fisher puts plenty of savory laughs into her, well, perhaps slightly autobiographical script, and under Mike Nichols' direction, Meryl Streep parades her dazzling comedic gifts; she adds spin and sizzle to every...
These exhortations might prompt outsiders to ask, like the Meryl Streep character in Postcards from the Edge, "Do you always talk in bumper stickers?" But expressions like "one day at a time" and "higher power" are the not-so-secret passwords of our times...
These days Ms. Fisher is needling the world with several potent concoctions. A movie adaptation of her best-selling snort-and-chortle novel, Postcards from the Edge, has opened big. It features Fisher's screenplay directed by Mike Nichols, with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine as the star-worn daughter and mother. There is also a new paperback edition of her novel to add to the media jet stream. And Fisher's lovelorn modern romance, Surrender the Pink, has just been published...