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...wrote her first novel, The House of the Spirits, at 40, when she was an exile in Venezuela after the murder of her cousin, former Chilean President Salvador Allende. That novel, in the magical realist style of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was made into a 1994 film with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Altogether, Allende's four novels and a short-story collection have sold an estimated 10 million copies worldwide. Paula is her first nonfiction work--a book, she says, "I have been rehearsing all my life to write...
...actors--Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep--may be recognized as Oscar-caliber performers, but they are often far from the favorites of the average ticket-buyer...
They did not come easily to Iowa. Meryl Streep hated the book. When her assistant asked to borrow one of the several copies of The Bridges of Madison County that friends had pressed on her, she refused. "I'm not going to let you read it," she said. "It's a crime against literature." She told her agents she was not interested in doing the movie version...
...antithesis of Robert James Waller's romantic tale of middle-age passion. As a result, the film version of "Bridges" is rather different. TIME's Corliss describes a brooding romantic fantasy and a meditation on the anticipation and consequences of passion. Eastwood's generosity as a director and Meryl Streep's remarkable performance, says Corliss, "alchemize literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion...
People go to the movies to fall in love, and not just with their dates. Wholesome sex appeal has kept Hollywood purring for 80 years. But today's prime actresses-Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, even Winona Ryder-are a formidable bunch, serioso artists who don't fit into a fellow's dream of easy chatter and backseat romance; they are more likely to hand you a petition. As for Sharon Stone, she's gorgeous, but thanks all the same, we would just as soon survive the good-night kiss...