Word: meryl
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...most stations). Everything you wanted to know about the environment but were afraid to find out, in 10 hours with Meryl Streep as host. (The series is being repeated in weekly hour-long segments on Thursday evenings...
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE. Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine embody the glamorous wit of Carrie Fisher's novel about an actress in rehab and her movie-star mom. Under the sorcerer's wand of director Mike Nichols, this terrific comedy is a Terms of Endearment in which nobody dies but everyone hurts...
...dish over with quickly. Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep) is a drug- addicted actress whose mother, Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine), was a big musical comedy star with a drinking problem and whose singer-father walked out when Suzanne was a child. Actress Carrie Fisher, author of the novel and screenplay Postcards from the Edge, is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. But it shouldn't matter whether this wonderful comedy is really about famous people who make life tough for themselves and the ones they love most. It's like worrying whether a historical Hamlet really lusted after...
...Earth Day Special, featuring Bette Midler as an abused Mother Earth who collapses in a town square, suffering from global warming, deforestation, etc., and gets tended by Drs. Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) and Steven Kiley (James Brolin). Visitors to the invalid include Kevin Costner, Quincy Jones and Meryl Streep...
...selfishness are '80s evils. The new year promises a more compassionate, humane crop of idols. Generally getting the cold shoulder for 1990 are hardhearts like Roseanne Barr, Bryant Gumbel, Eddie Murphy and Margaret Thatcher. The new In crowd includes such softies as Delta Burke, Arsenio Hall, Madonna and Meryl Streep. Rocker Janet Jackson has ended up with a foot in both camps. Time to pull it together, Janet...