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Tag Archives: Meryl Streep
The Books: “Dance While You Can” (Shirley MacLaine)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir: Dance While You Can, by Shirley MacLaine Dance While You Can came out in the early 90s. Now it can’t be said that MacLaine ever really had a dry period – that’s one of the … Continue reading
“I seem to have lost all sense of style and yet I am haunted, mercilessly haunted by the necessity of style.
Wow: Amazing letter from Joseph Conrad to Edward Garnett. I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day–and the sitting down is all. In the course of that working day of 8 hours I write … Continue reading
Kevin Kline: Lear and Cyrano
King Lear and Cyrano: a comparative study of the performances. It’s also an appreciation of his long and singular career. It’s the observations about what it is that makes certain performances work – while others do not quite work. A … Continue reading
Streep In “That Scene” In Ironweed
When Ironweed first came out, my friend Mitchell said to me, before I had seen it, “There is a reason why everybody is talking about that scene … It was annoying to me, how much people were talking about how … Continue reading
Liza With a Z!
Mitchell and I are going over to Alex’s apartment tonight… and we are all going to watch Liza with a Z … the TV event of the decade. It hasn’t been seen in 34 years. I know about it because … Continue reading
Cary Grant in “Affair to Remember”: A Method Performance
This is a re-post of something I wrote a while back. It has to do with the history of acting, of the method acting style, of Stanislavsky’s teachings, and how I think Grant fits into that continuum. It’s very in-depth. … Continue reading
Posted in Actors
Tagged Actors Studio, Anton Chekhov, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Eleonora Duse, Leo McCarey, Marlon Brando, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro
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“An experienced actor knows that words ‘I love you’ are really a question.” — Meryl Streep
