Word: meryll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many a reader engrossed in a new novel envisions actors playing the central parts. To lots of those who read William Styron's haunting, often wildly funny Sophie's Choice, there was but one actress for the title role in the film version: Meryl Streep, 33. To the delight of armchair casting directors everywhere, Streep is indeed playing Sophie, the Polish-Catholic Auschwitz survivor, resettled in postwar Brooklyn. Nathan, her neurotic, libidinous lover, is played by Kevin Kline, 34, the pirate king in the upcoming film The Pirates of Penzance. Kline is another nice bit of casting since...
French Lieutenant's Woman(Sacks): Yet another love story, with that old cliche, the movie within the movie. Why doesn't anyone ever take it one step further? To fully appreciate the ending, learn which Meryl Streep is Anne and which Meryl Streep is Sarah. The acting is awesome, the script is terrific, the structure is brilliant, the scenery is beautiful and you'll leave the theater feeling miserable. By the way, this film, like the book, has a happy ending and a sad ending, take your pick. This is the One-Blank-Cartridge-In-The-Firing-Squad's-Guns...
...stagings across this background--frameworks for passion and its absence that play off one another. Most attention falls on the Victorian drama, in which Christopher Irons plays an aristocratic dabbler at science, Charles Smithson, whose plans for marriage are torn apart by his vision of the haunting face of Meryl Streep at the end of a long sea wall, wind and waves crashing about her. Smithson spends the rest of the film trying to understand the reason for her remarkable, extraordinary look...
...Meryl Streep is an artist, not a celebrity [Sept. 7]. She doesn't play a part-she is the part. That's magic...
...Fowles who suggested that the film's final line of dialogue be "Sarah!" He deserves to share credit with Pinter and Reisz for assembling this multilayered meditation on the blurring lines that connect actor, character and audience. But the creation might have remained stillborn without the contribution of Meryl Streep. This Sarah, this Anna, this warring family of sirens demands an incandescent star. With this performance, Streep proves she is both. Virgin, whore, woman, actress, she provides the happy ending to The French Lieutenant's Woman and new life to a cinema starved for shining stars...