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Stephen S. Halsey, president of the American Express Foundation, said yesterday his company had not funded ART on the basis of past productions, but because of its "superlative administration." However, he added. "The secret reason we are supporting ART is that I want to meet Meryl Streep...

Author: By Michael W. Miller and Sarah Paul, S | Title: American Repertory Theatre Slated To Tour Europe in 1982 | 2/11/1981 | See Source »

This is a tale of two ladies. One of them (Meryl Streep) is very, very good, and the other (Elizabeth Swados) is very nearly horrid. Her work, that is. For a woman who has acquired an exaggerated reputation as a composer, Swados displays an anemic talent for making anything remotely resembling good music. For someone who is 29, she is strangely fixated on the '60s. Her songs, both for Alice in Concert and her previous show Runaways, a short-lived paean to urchin street vandals, sound, at their very best, like numbers that the composers of Hair threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Through a Glass in Pitch-Darkness | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...Even Streep, whose lustrous presence and finely pitched acting skills provide the only reasons for purchasing a ticket, is not cast with total precision. Carroll had a predilection for small girls. Streep is so far from being petite that she might have intimidated that slight figure of a man. However, the radiant tightness of her features, her gestures, her bearing and her voice leads us into the vernal garden of childhood and the willing sus pension of disbelief. She turns two scenes into acting marvels. In one she mimics Humpty Dumpty about to fall off the wall but retaining full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Through a Glass in Pitch-Darkness | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...Sullivans' city--David's, Walter's, James's, and Al Vellucci's. Bottle upon bottle, we'll uncork the Veuve Clicquot And raise our glasses in the air for everyone we know. For A. Simone Reagor, Eugene Genovese, Lyndon Larouche and Aglaia Senese, Ned Coll, Larry Bird, Meryl Streep and Abbie Hoffman, Ben Schatz, Richard Frye, Cyrus Vance and Stanley Hoffmann, Baruj Benacerraf, Muhammad Ali, Simon Schama and Selwyn Cudjoe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ann Ramsay, Nathan Huggins and Pat Sorrento, Al Dershowitz and The Quincy House Two, Shirley Hufstedler and Pere Ubu, Charlie Beckwith, Walter Cronkite, Alex Bok and Alex Haig...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Phantasm | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

...like pure nicotine; Gary Busey, strong and lovable behind his goony, gummy smile; and Jodie Foster, poised for a swan dive into young womanhood. Look at Foster's face now-a fascinating mask of planes, points and dumpling cheeks-and you see her potential for turning into Meryl Streep or Angela Lansbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Carnival Knowledge | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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