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Except for Gandhi, most of the major winners were hardly surprises. Meryl Streep was named Best Actress for her dazzling performance as the doomed survivor of the Nazi camps in Sophie's Choice. Ben Kingsley won the Best Actor award for his uncanny portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi; Louis Gossett Jr. was chosen Best Supporting Actor for his hard-nosed drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman; and Jessica Lange, who was also running in the Best Actress category for Frances, was picked as Best Supporting Actress for playing the girl who gets the girl, Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie...
...Were Meryl Streep, 33, to do a screen version of Romeo and Juliet, with, say, Robert De Niro, their twinned compulsion to "get into" the hearts of their roles might take them so far that an undertaker would have to be included in the closing credits. So finicky is Streep about her profession that when it came time to dub the French sound track for her Polish-born character in Sophie's Choice, she just had to try to provide that je ne sais quoi herself. "I had to audition to show that I could speak the language well...
...name cropped up twice, making her the only such double designee in 40 years. She is on the Best Supporting Actress ballot for Tootsie and on the one for Best Actress for her role in Frances. Her probable chief rival for the award as Best Actress will be Meryl Streep, nominated, as expected, for Sophie's Choice. Perhaps the strongest category is Best Actor, which this year promises a tight competition, free of Hollywood sentimentality and the tradition of awarding nominations to make up for past oversights. The nominees are Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Paul Newman in The Verdict...
...dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1966 to 1979, he installed a professional acting troupe that premiered such plays as Ted Tally's Terra Nova and Sam Shepard's Pulitzer-prizewinning Buried Child and trained performers as diverse as Meryl Streep and Henry Winkler. The company also tried some daffy updating of classics: the 1607 Revenger's Tragedy be came an essay on Viet Nam War protest, the witches in Macbeth came from a spaceship, and The Frogs of Aristophanes frolicked in a Yale swimming pool...
EXPECTING. Meryl Streep, 33, seraphic star whose riveting performance as the heroine of Sophie's Choice last month won her best actress of 1982 honors from the New York Film Critics Circle, and her husband, Sculptor Don Gummer, 36; their second child...