Word: meryll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-page contribution to this week's cover package on Actress Meryl Streep, Corliss delved into the literary and structural artifices that characterize her new movie The French Lieutenant's Woman. Corliss, who also wrote last year's cover story on the prime-time television soap opera Dallas, found Harold Pinter's transmutation of John Fowles' multilayered novel into a film-within-a-film a challenging experiment. Concludes Corliss: "Because of its complexity and cerebral detachment, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a difficult film to fall in love with-but the performance...
...rarity of the sort who comes along once or twice in a decade. What Charles sees when the cloaked woman turns toward him is an alarming, elemental Sarah who blows through the film like a sea storm, a Sarah who defines the role for all time. Her name is Meryl Streep...
What is remarkable about Meryl Streep's brief film career?Sarah is her first really big role?is that she has brought this same feeling of inevitability even to relatively minor parts. In The Deer Hunter she had only a few important scenes, but it requires a wrenching effort now to imagine another actress playing Linda, Christopher Walken's shy girlfriend. Casual television viewers, who cared not at all that she had made her reputation as a stage actress at the Yale School of Drama and at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York City, were struck...
...handful of really great actresses." It is nearly impossible to find a knowledgeable person in the film and theater worlds who does not use superlatives when talking about her. "There's nothing she can't do," Benton goes on. "Like De Niro she has no limits. I've watched Meryl over the years, and she's so staggeringly different in Kramer from the way she is in Deer Hunter?and try as I might, I can't figure out why. She has an immense backbone of technique, but you never catch her using...
...viewer finds himself watching Meryl Streep much more closely than he is accustomed to watching actresses. More seems to be going on. It is not simply that she manages to make her face an astonishingly clear reflection of her character's complexities. It is not merely that this pale face, with its small, amused eyes and its nose long and curved as a flensing knife (when she kissed Alan Alda injudiciously in Tynan, this precarious nose displaced the flesh of his cheek up toward his eyeball), is poised fascinatingly between beauty and harshness. What makes the viewer sit forward...