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Meryl Streep: The Life Behind the Greatest Actress of Her Generation
She has been nominated for more Academy Awards than any actor in history — twenty-one of them — and won three. She has played a Holocaust survivor, a British prime minister, a fashion empress, a singing Greek hotelier, and a witch. Presidents have hung medals around her neck. And yet the most revealing photograph of…
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How Meryl Streep Made Sophie’s Choice: The Accent, the Agony, the Oscar
Some performances you admire. A very few you survive. Meryl Streep’s portrayal of Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie’s Choice (1982) belongs to the second category — a performance so complete, so devastating, that audiences walked out of theaters in silence, and critics reached for words like “miraculous.” It won Streep her second Academy Award and was…