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...Great objects of male desire are invariably so much more than that. They are multi-dimensional, interesting women who flaunt their own indentities and resist being typified as silent, passive, objects of male interest. One thinks of Debra Winger as Joy, C.S. Lewis' love interest in "Shadowlands," or Meryl Streep as Karen von Blixen in "Out of Africa." The same principle holds true in light romance, from Meg Ryan's idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic Sally of "Harry Met Sally" to Katherine Hepburn's fiery and yet vulnerable Tracey Lord opposite Cary Grant in "The Philadelphia Story...
...from our hero in the film's most ungainly scene -- is the Sun's female managing editor, played by Glenn Close in a haggard, predatory tone, as if stranded between Fatal Attraction and Sunset Blvd. One can detect here the fine misogyny of screenwriter David Koepp, who had Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn destroy themselves for vanity's sake in Death Becomes Her. (Koepp wrote The Paper with his brother Stephen, a TIME senior editor...
...they age. A young woman might be discriminated against; an older woman is often seen as irrelevant. Actresses have complained for years that their male counterparts don't run into the same career roadblocks they do once they reach 40, but the dilemma is more serious than whether Meryl Streep is in as much demand as Jack Nicholson. Lauren Hutton and stories about older women and younger men notwithstanding, the woman who can no longer give birth may sometimes feel as used up in modern America as she was in preindustrial times, when bearing children was a key to economic...
...maybe Meryl Streep for Francesca, though the female lead doesn't really matter that much, since most of the powerful sighing in the story is done by Kincaid. But who will play Rationality, Kincaid's conscience? One vote here for Jack Nicholson, who wouldn't have any trouble with the pivotal scene in which "Rationality shrieked at him, 'Let it go, Kincaid, get back on the road. Shoot the bridges, go to India. Stop in Bangkok on the way and look up the silk merchant's daughter who knows every ecstatic secret the old ways can teach. Swim naked with...
...forerunner of Maloney's boss Mike Ovitz as a finger-in-every-pie packager who represented the writer and the director and the stars of a given production. Deep into the 1980s, Cohn had an impressive plurality of the stars and filmmakers with claims to blue-chip seriousness: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Robert Altman, Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Nichols and so many more. Cohn got Columbia Pictures to pay an astonishing $9.5 million for the movie rights to the Broadway musical Annie, a record that will probably never be broken...