Word: meryll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mind heaves with possibilities: The Sisters Karamazov? Twelve Angry Ladies'? Young Girl with a Cornet? Mrs. Roberts? How long before the world is treated to a revival of Moby Dick, starring Victoria Principal as Captain Alice and ubiquitous Meryl Streep as the passionate yet complex crew? Or Steven Spielberg's E.T.T.E.? Or Richard Attenborough's epic film biography of the Indian pacifist Blandhi...
...camera, and we used that as a weapon," she said. "I guess they felt we could do them harm if our pictures were shown. The people were let go." Meanwhile, over at the Vassar campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Alumna and two-time Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep, 34, gave the commencement address and credited her alma mater with instilling in her "a taste for excellence." But, she added in a cautionary note, "if you can live with the devil, Vassar has not sunk its teeth into you." He would have to catch up first. The next day Streep...
Except for Gandhi, most of the major winners were hardly surprises. Meryl Streep was named Best Actress for her dazzling performance as the doomed survivor of the Nazi camps in Sophie's Choice. Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor award for his uncanny portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi; Louis Gossett Jr. was chosen Best Supporting Actor for his hard-nosed drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman; and Jessica Lange, who was also running in the Best Actress category for Frances, was picked as Best Supporting Actress for playing the girl who gets the girl, Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie...
...Were Meryl Streep, 33, to do a screen version of Romeo and Juliet, with, say, Robert De Niro, their twinned compulsion to "get into" the hearts of their roles might take them so far that an undertaker would have to be included in the closing credits. So finicky is Streep about her profession that when it came time to dub the French sound track for her Polish-born character in Sophie's Choice, she just had to try to provide that je ne sais quoi herself. "I had to audition to show that I could speak the language well...
...name cropped up twice, making her the only such double designee in 40 years. She is on the Best Supporting Actress ballot for Tootsie and on the one for Best Actress for her role in Frances. Her probable chief rival for the award as Best Actress will be Meryl Streep, nominated, as expected, for Sophie's Choice. Perhaps the strongest category is Best Actor, which this year promises a tight competition, free of Hollywood sentimentality and the tradition of awarding nominations to make up for past oversights. The nominees are Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Paul Newman in The Verdict...