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- From: rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu
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- Subject: Re: Most Overrated Actor/Actress
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.092311.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:23:11 GMT
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- > }>Sure. I know that this will be considered total sacrilege by most, but
- > }>Meryl Streep gets my award as the actress with the most acclaim and the
- > }>least acting ability.
- >
- > }Whoaaaaaaaaa....time out there guy...If you are judging her on comedic work,
- > }then I'd agree but rent one of her dramas and she is nothing short of
- > }brilliant. She is probably a master at any accent a script calls for. She puts
- > } great emotion into each of her characters. Lets put it this way....go see
- > } for yourself.
- >
- > Didn't I *say* it would be considered sacrilege? I *have* seen her work
- > for myself, both drama and comedy. Her accents sound like something from
- > "Hogan's Heroes" and I've seen more emotion from Miss Piggy.
- >
- > So time out yourself, "guy", I'm as much entitled to my opinion as anyone,
- > however much it may fly in the face of all the experts (and do try to
- > remember the purpose of this thread, ok? I didn't just bring this up
- > out of the blue). If you disagree with me, that's fine, but your
- > assumption that the only possible explanation for my opinion is that
- > I've never seen a Meryl Streep movie is offensive.
- >
- > --James Preston
- >
- ================
- Here here! someone willing to come out and say that if you've seen one
- Streep movie, you've seen them all. There's more to acting than accents and
- I think she puts the same emotion in every script. I think great
- actors are completely different in each movie. You find yourself wondering
- if it was indeed the same person. I always know I'm watching Streep
- and I feel like I'm watching someone act.
-