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...double irony that Isak Dinesen, who hid behind pseudonyms and coveted the Nobel Prize, is currently better known for her life than for her art. For the film of Out of Africa was itself a masque. The romantic figure played by Meryl Streep was a woman of action. In fact, the writer was a great solitary who tried to work out every moral conflict at her desk, in tales, letters or learned analyses. In 1923-24, for example, she made her famous and tortured marriage to Bror Blixen and her doomed affair with Denys Finch Hatton the subjects...
...luster has been augmented by its affiliations with universities -- Yale from 1966 to mid-1979 (another ensemble now performs as the Yale Repertory Theater) and since then Harvard. But its main claim to glory is the quality of its work and the actors who have performed there, from Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken to current Members Elizabeth Franz (a Tony nominee for Brighton Beach Memoirs) and Ken Howard (TV's The White Shadow...
...sharp actresses of minimum star wattage become brass rings for Oscar winners looking for the Next Big Thing. Though Crimes is an ensemble piece, the top gals inevitably compete for the dynamite scene and the revealing close-up. (One wag suggested that the producers should have cast Meryl Streep in all three roles.) So: good intentions, classy names, and what happens? Crimes is ossified into a movie misdemeanor...
...more movies, including the current Touch and Go and Extreme Prejudice, a Christmas release in which she has her first dramatic role, as a Mexican singer. Alonso, 29, does not worry about being stereotyped as a fiery Latina. With predictable confidence she says, "I can play the roles Meryl Streep plays." Wonder how her Polish and Danish accents are coming along...
...novel relied on Ephron's cauterizing prose to anchor the reader; the movie's commentary is the dialogue that Streep's fine, suggestive face carries on with the viewer. Stranded in rage, this Rachel has only the camera as her therapist, and Streep will turn to it as to a friend, confiding a querulous eyebrow or subtle grimace, simultaneously inhabiting and commenting on her role. Nicholson has a tougher assignment. He is, here, only half a man, all surface and no substance, and finally he distances himself from Mark, his face going slack in a kind of moral torpor...