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...Best Actress nominees are serviceable--but uselessly nominating Meryl Streep for Music of the Heart instead of Reese Witherspoon for Election is a cop-out. If Tom Cruise wins Best Supporting Actor for Magnolia, I'll turn to religion. And I pray that I'll be able to contain my temper when 'NSync takes the stage to perform their Best Original Song nominee, "Music of My Heart"--they'll perform instead of Madonna, whose "Beautiful Stranger" managed to miss the final cut. The good news? We'll also see "Blame Canada," performed on stage since the South Park tune somehow...
...indie sleeper Boys Don't Cry--in which she portrays Teena Brandon, a sexually confused Nebraska woman who was raped and murdered for posing as a man--Swank won Best Actress honors from critics in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Toronto. Her Golden Globe competitors are Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore--and she's a near cinch for an Oscar nomination. Not bad for a 25-year-old whose flashiest roles before now were as Ralph Macchio's replacement in The Next Karate Kid and half a season on Beverly Hills...
...teacher and the rowdy inner-city kids who succumb to the pedagogue's tough love and succeed despite overwhelming odds. In this case, they are a Harlem violin ensemble achieving a Carnegie Hall concert that saves their program from budget cuts. What saves this movie from hopeless sentimentality is Meryl Streep's subtle performance as the teacher, hinting at all kinds of neuroses sublimated in her gnarly relations with the kids...
...Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, and Gloria Estefan (yup, the singer) star in Wes Craven's newest film, based on the documentary Small Wonders--the account of Roberta Guaspari, a single mother who moves to East Harlem to teach the violin to underprivileged children. Even though the film moves a bit slowly at the beginning where Roberta's personal life is the dominant plot-line, Meryl Streep is (as always) refreshing in her portrayal of Guaspari and compensates for the slow start. Streep's characterization of the man-dependent and recently divorced Navy wife is humorous and real...
...play Bach's Double Concerto with her and her students on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Together, they raised more than $300,000 to keep violins in the schools of Harlem. The story inspired an Oscar-winning documentary and The Music of My Heart, a Miramax film starring Meryl Streep, to be released in October. "When I first observed Roberta in class, I thought she was very hard on her kids," recalls Streep. "But her rationale was that it's a way of according respect to the discipline...