Word: meryll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1966 to 1979, he installed a professional acting troupe that premiered such plays as Ted Tally's Terra Nova and Sam Shepard's Pulitzer-prizewinning Buried Child and trained performers as diverse as Meryl Streep and Henry Winkler. The company also tried some daffy updating of classics: the 1607 Revenger's Tragedy be came an essay on Viet Nam War protest, the witches in Macbeth came from a spaceship, and The Frogs of Aristophanes frolicked in a Yale swimming pool...
EXPECTING. Meryl Streep, 33, seraphic star whose riveting performance as the heroine of Sophie's Choice last month won her best actress of 1982 honors from the New York Film Critics Circle, and her husband, Sculptor Don Gummer, 36; their second child...
...extent of that terror up to Sophie's final and tragic "choice," so that the viewer's reactions parallel Stingo's own. Longer than the conventional flashback, these sequences demonstrate Pakula's scrupulous care in reproducing Styron's tone. An actual concentration camp in Yugoslavia forms the background, and Meryl Streep as Sophie appears with near-shaven head, made up to look perceptibly younger and gabbling fluently in German and Polish...
...Rice (Roy Scheider), a psychiatrist who becomes involved in a mysterious chain of events when one of his patients is found stabbed to death. Shortly after the murder, the victim's mistress comes to Rice's office, apparently curious about what her lover has told him. Brooke Reynolds (Meryl Streep) is a beautiful and very mysterious woman whose nervous desire for secrecy intrigues Rice, leading him to suspect her of complicity in the murder...
...Meryl Streep's performance is a seamless, seductive piece. Sophie's past justifies Streep's familiar mannerisms: the wistful, knowing smile, the nervous fingers burrowing into a copse of hair, the starts and stops of dialogue, even the red blotches on her skin in moments of high tension. She plays Sophie in a Polish-accented contralto and, in the flashbacks, speaks serviceable Polish and German. In a smaller picture, with a lesser actress, this would seem a highfalutin stunt, a meaningless demonstration of dexterity. Here it is one more challenge that this galvanizing actress set for herself...