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...because they live in tiny boxes and pay mansion prices. They are crazy because hundreds of them a night are willing to camp out in record heat for free theater tickets. The occasion is an all-star production of Chekhov's The Seagull in Central Park, starring KEVIN KLINE, MERYL STREEP, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Christopher Walken. But if Chekhov knew how a man of Goodman's girth can sweat, he might have written in a Towel Boy character. In a week when temperatures soared to 103[degrees]F, the actors could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 20, 2001 | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...Julia Roberts is our best movie star? Not so long as Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Kathleen Turner and Winona Ryder are breathing!" SHELDON L. GREEN Cleveland, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 2001 | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...free-for-all, she epitomizes the paradox of being the best. Is Roberts the best American actress? That little statue is a sign that she can sometimes be a screen presence to reckon with, but in any ballot of the most accomplished performers, she would meet heavy competition from Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Julianne Moore and Kathy Bates, to name a few. But Best Movie Star? No contest. And that's because she is the biggest female box-office draw, even in films that are often of so-so quality. She does best the thing that only movie stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Best | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Writes screenplay for director Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harold Pinter's Life in Theater | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Australia-raised Mel Gibson ("He's filming intensively"). So did James Murdoch, son of tycoon Rupert, on the excuse that he was born in England and holds an American passport?and, presumably, can speak English better than Kylie Minogue, who also declined to comment. We even tried Meryl Streep, who seemed to perfect an Australian accent in A Cry in the Dark. She was "in rehearsal." Thank heaven for writers. "If you think of the innumerable regional accents of English-speaking Yanks, Anglos, Aussies and Asians, including the phonetically unimpressive Mr. Mahathir," comments TIME critic Robert Hughes, author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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