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...actors do the best they can. Ardant, who resembles Meryl Streep and has the wannest face ever filmed, plays her role with the severity and distance it requires, even if the direction does require her to cuddle her children in an overly Freudian way. Halladay, the popular French music star, is a man who has aged well. He is at his best when he is angry, which is most of the time...
...first book, Oh, God!, provided the base for three George Burns movies. His third sold few hardback copies, but everyone knew its name after Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep appeared in the film adaptation of Kramer vs. Kramer. This latest work, too, is scheduled to go before the cameras. Once again, viewers are likely to outnumber readers. A pity; Avery Corman, 51, has a literary gift for dialogue and predicament. Sealed in a time capsule, 50 could tell future generations more about contemporary middle-age mores than a library of sociological theses...
...sister in her 20s reveal mischievous Tartar eyes and a determined jaw. In the 1940s, she could have been one of the European film beauties who used only one name, like Valli and Annabella. In the '80s, her diary could yet make her a "hot property." Perhaps even now, Meryl Streep's telephone is ringing off the hook...
...double irony that Isak Dinesen, who hid behind pseudonyms and coveted the Nobel Prize, is currently better known for her life than for her art. For the film of Out of Africa was itself a masque. The romantic figure played by Meryl Streep was a woman of action. In fact, the writer was a great solitary who tried to work out every moral conflict at her desk, in tales, letters or learned analyses. In 1923-24, for example, she made her famous and tortured marriage to Bror Blixen and her doomed affair with Denys Finch Hatton the subjects...
...luster has been augmented by its affiliations with universities -- Yale from 1966 to mid-1979 (another ensemble now performs as the Yale Repertory Theater) and since then Harvard. But its main claim to glory is the quality of its work and the actors who have performed there, from Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken to current Members Elizabeth Franz (a Tony nominee for Brighton Beach Memoirs) and Ken Howard (TV's The White Shadow...