Word: streep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winning Streep...
...Meryl Streep is an artist, not a celebrity [Sept. 7]. She doesn't play a part-she is the part. That's magic...
Containing this plot is another box marked 1981, when The French Lieutenant's Woman is being filmed in Lyme Regis. Mike (Jeremy Irons), a young British actor, is playing Charles; Anna (Meryl Streep), an American actress, is playing Sarah. Mike, we soon learn, is in love. To Anna, he is little more than an electric blanket-something to keep her warm in bed while on location. And so the two play out a familiar film-set romance: Mike pressing, Anna depressing; Mike the Method actor living out his role, Anna the detached professional. Is Mike infatuated with Anna...
...film is still more cunning, for it deals as well with the seductive ways a story's characters can become the actors playing them. In one respect, this simply acknowledges star quality: the audience adds to Sarah's history all they know of Streep from seeing her earlier films and reading about her private life. But in the final meeting of Charles and Sarah, three years after she has vanished, the film becomes something else-more than a recreation of the separate fictional realities of then...
...suggested that the film's final line of dialogue be "Sarah!" He deserves to share credit with Pinter and Reisz for assembling this multilayered meditation on the blurring lines that connect actor, character and audience. But the creation might have remained stillborn without the contribution of Meryl Streep. This Sarah, this Anna, this warring family of sirens demands an incandescent star. With this performance, Streep proves she is both. Virgin, whore, woman, actress, she provides the happy ending to The French Lieutenant's Woman and new life to a cinema starved for shining stars...