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DEWITT: Well, I enjoy violence. Ever since my accident, I've enjoyed seeing people mutilated or hacked up on the screen....Meryl Streep--I love her, She's so beautiful. She was awful in Julia, and I think it taught her a lot about film acting. She's another great stage actress. I slipped into Happy End on Broadway...I knew she'd become a star. Midsummer at the Yale Rep....a wonderful Helena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Many Masks of DeWitt | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...grande dame of Broadway, the other a young Yale drama graduate. Colleen Dewhurst and Meryl Streep play mother and daughter in Taken in Marriage, Thomas Babe's barbed comedy about five women preparing for a wedding rehearsal in a small New Hampshire town. Getting ready for this week's opening, Streep took time out to reflect on her craft. "Good acting is opening the doors to that part of the role you see in yourself, and partnering that with your imagination and invention," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 26, 1979 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

There can be no quarrel about the acting. De Niro, Walken, John Savage, as an other Clairton pal who goes to war, and Meryl Streep, as a woman left behind, are all top actors in extraordinary form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Hell Without a Map | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...show opens, the head of the Weiss family, a doctor played by Fritz Weaver, is exiled from Berlin to the Warsaw Ghetto. His wife (Rosemary Harris) soon follows, and eventually the couple end up in Auschwitz. The oldest Weiss son (James Woods), an artist, marries a Roman Catholic (Meryl Streep), only to be sent to Buchenwald, then to the "privileged" camp of Theresienstadt, then Auschwitz. His brother (Joseph Bottoms) goes on the run, meets and marries a Czech Zionist (Tovah Feldshuh), and later joins the underground Jewish partisans fighting in the Ukraine. As Green traces the stories of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reliving the Nazi Nightmare | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...name actors came early on. "People want to see this show or they don't," explains Klein. "It would have been ludicrous to star-stud it." Instead of celebrities, the audience will see prominent actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company (Ian Holm), the New York Shakespeare Festival (Meryl Streep) and Broadway (Rosemary Harris, George Rose). The Nazis are mainly played by British. Says Berger: "We did not want any comedic overtones of Hollywood." Most of the cast members accepted their roles as soon as they saw the script. One of the two actors who turned down parts felt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reliving the Nazi Nightmare | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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