Word: meryll
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...called Attack of the Street Pimps. A TV commercial for the Black Acting School shows its (white) teachers providing the finer points of jive talking and stud strutting. Bobby stars in a Stallone-style epic, Rambro: First Young Blood, and wins the Best Actor Oscar over Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Townsend knows Bobby fully lives where we all live, in dreams of glory, agony, love -- of life's infinite possibilities. In real life, most of those dreams are dashed or deferred. So who wouldn't be pleased enough to pay the price of a movie ticket to see Townsend...
Actors thrive on this approach too. The production attracted such names as Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin (who play a country-music sister act and really sing), teen tabloid queen Lindsay Lohan (Streep's daughter), Kevin Kline (Guy Noir, the private-eye character on Companion) and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly (Companion's singing cowboys, Dusty and Lefty...
...glamour goes, you can't get much lower than a radio play. So why have MERYL STREEP, Peter Dinklage and Hope Davis signed up for one? Because Charlie Kaufman asked them to. The Oscar-winning screenwriter made his directing debut with Hope Leaves the Theater, a play with many characters but just three actors. "The nonvisual aspect of it appealed to me," says Kaufman, who has Streep voicing a parody of herself and a black teen, among others. The play had short runs in New York City and London, and will go on to Los Angeles and Sirius radio. Could...
Sydney Pollack is know for directing intelligent thrillers (The Firm) and intelligent actors (Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Meryl Streep). His newest film, The Interpreter, pairs Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn in the first movie ever shot inside the U.N.'s New York City headquarters. TIME's Josh Tyrangiel sat down with Kidman, Penn and Pollack to discuss Kofi Annan, Chris Rock and Princess Leia--and to hear Penn dispense a surprising number of Borscht-Belt-or-better-quality one-liners...
...Director Mike Nichols, 53, thought Heartburn, Ephron's best-selling novel that resembles the breakup of her marriage to Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein, 41, would make a good movie, and the rest, as they say, is history, or maybe her-story. Now filming in New York City, Heartburn stars Meryl Streep, 35, as the jilted cookbook writer, and Jack Nicholson, 48, as the man who gives her marital indigestion. Nicholson is replacing Mandy Patinkin, 32, who departed suddenly after "artistic differences" with the director. So what is the movie based on the book based on the breakup about? Says Nichols...