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Moral criticism of adultery having become unfashionable, we must make do with the inconvenience of the thing as the last barrier against total sexual anarchy. If the experience of Frank Raftis (Robert De Niro) and Molly Gilmore (Meryl Streep) is typical, the difficulty of arranging a discreet tryst remains a powerful weapon on the side of the angels. Indeed, Falling in Love shows an extramarital affair to be the neutron bomb of interpersonal relations, capable of wiping out all intelligent life, leaving only the bare generic conventions of romantic fiction standing stark against...
What the world does not need is a middle-aged elf. For ten years Shirley MacLaine has been complaining that writers cannot provide good roles for women, while Meryl Streep, Ellen Burstyn and Diane Keaton have been acting in terrific pictures...
...outstanding event in the Hasty Pudding show is the annual selection of the Man and Woman of the Year, a traditional that began in 1951 with the selection of Gertrude Lawrence Honored stars in the past have included Mamie Eisenhower. Lauren Bacall, and Meryl Streep for the women, and Bob Hope Jack Lemmon and John Travolta for the men The honorees are chosen by the show's producers and the president and officers of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals 1984's woman of the Year, John Rivers will be presented with her award at the Hasty Pudding on February 15 following...
Your review of Silkwood [Dec. 19] is nasty and obtuse. Silkwood is a troubling film, and Meryl Streep is brilliant. The movie does not patronize working-class people, but shows the horrors of their subjection to nightmares like radioactive contamination...
...quite matched by his supporting cast. As Annie (a role Meryl Streep declined), Close, in maroon hair and Anthea Sylbert's rummage-sale wardrobe, has the reckless high spirits of an aging cheerleader when she should be the anchor to Henry's fervor. Like the rest of the cast except for the deft, sexy Gallagher, Close serves the script honorably rather than meeting it eye to eye. Nonetheless, The Real Thing is likely to make a star too of Close (who played Sarah in The Big Chill). Even in previews, Close relates, she and Irons were getting...