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...just got to wonder how calculating some movie studies are. Take the movie Heartburn, with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson, two of the most acclaimed actors today. Mike Nichols, one of the eighties' hottest directors, controlled the process; and the screenplay was taken from a best-selling roman a clef by Nora Ephron, the former wife of big-shot Washington journalist Carl Bernstein. Hmmmm. Yeah, you know the producers were dreaming of a blockbuster and nine Academy awards from the moment they started shooting. With all that build-up, you've got to be disappointed...
...Hardly. Moore and Ronis have the ingredients oftruly important theater artists. They can act,write and direct with proficiency. In the view ofmany of their peers, their success, even in thecapricious entertainment industry, is practicallya foregone conclusion. The only question iswhether they'll become the Sam Shepards, RobertWilsons or Meryl Streeps of the next generation...
Acting captivates Sheedy, and she wants to play everything "from a nun to a safari adventurer to a peasant girl to Lady Macbeth." She can't, however, imagine herself trying something as difficult as Meryl Streep's tour de force in Sophie's Choice. "I don't think I could play a sex-starved rock singer," she speculates, pausing to see how that possibility strikes her listener. Then, grinning, she changes her mind: "But maybe I could." She is on view in two fairly routine films released this month, Blue City, a thriller in which she plays Judd Nelson...
...disturbing by-product of the Baby Boomers' quest for personal freedom, for what the "human potential" gurus call self-realization, has been lack of commitment to others. In the 1979 movie Kramer vs. Kramer, Meryl Streep, playing the mother who wants to see more in life than a diaper rash, writes her young son, "I have gone away because I must find something interesting to do for myself in the world. Everybody has to and so do I. Being your Mommy was one thing, but there are other things too." The fact that she comes back later...
Twenty years ago we had The Graduate in which a confused young man has an affair with the mother of the woman with whom he eventually elopes. Just two years ago we had Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in Falling in Love which turned The Scarlet Letter on its head and told us that adultery is a-okay...