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- From: mgq@inel.gov (Michael G McKellar)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: Most Overrated Actor/Actress
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.174957.2303@inel.gov>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 17:49:57 GMT
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- In article <1hq0obINN3r1@network.ucsd.edu> ivy@chem.ucsd.edu (Ivy Blumberg) writes:
- >In article <1h4obgINN2vp@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:
- >>
- >>rlwilliams writes:
- >>
- >>>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.
- >>
- >>Well, I agree that acting is much more than mastering a
- >>foreign dialect, but nevertheless I certainly feel
- >>that Meryl Streep is completely different in nearly
- >>every role she takes on. It certainly amazes me that
- >>the actress who potrayed Karen Silkwood is the same
- >>one who was in _A Cry in the Dark_, and that the woman
- >>I saw in _Postcards from the Edge_ was the same
- >>as in Albert Brooks' _Defending Your Life_.
- >>
- >>Just MHO, of course.
- >>
- >>Mark B. Bendiksen
- >
- >I think Meryl's comedies have definitely been lacking,
- >but I thought she was excellent in Silkwood and The
- >French Lieutenant's Woman. These were both very good
- >films. By the way, who was her lover in FLW? I didn't
- >pay attention at the time but now that I remember back
- >it seems like it was Jeremy Irons.
- >
- >ivy
- >
- >
-
- You are right it was Jeremy Irons. I enjoy his films.
-
- Mike McKellar (mgq@inel.gov)
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