Dear Meryl Streep,
You are wonderful. I adore you. Please adopt me. Or leave the outgoing message on my cell phone.
-Caitlin
So in the past few years I think I have seen almost EVERY movie Meryl Streep has been in. Evening...Rendition... Devil Wears Prada... Doubt...It's Complicated... not to mention the delicious Julie & Julia... And she is JUST fabulous. And while watching the Today Show a few weeks ago... I heard that with this year's Golden Globes nominations, she will have been nominated 25 times. 25! Holy wow.
Well, my sister and I decided that since we have seen all of her recent work, we should start working our way through her film catalog. So last Saturday marked the first meeting of our mini Meryl Streep fan club, our viewing included "The Deer Hunter" and "Kramer vs. Kramer."
The AFI lists "The Deer Hunter" as one of the top 100 films. With all due respect to Mrs. Streep, I think it could have been skipped. 3 hours and 4 minutes of utter misery in the lives of three friends, without even a remotely positive ending. But maybe we expected our leading lady to play a larger role and since she didn't, that added to the disappointment.
"Kramer vs. Kramer" however... wonderfully emotional and even though the emphasis falls on Dustin Hoffman's character, I think it was a wonderful addition to Meryl Streep repertoire
Since our first meeting fizzled, for the next movie we decided we needed a bigger fix, so we aimed for one of her better known films.... "Out of Africa...." Robert Redford, delicious.... photography...brilliantly beautiful... Meryl... oh Meryl I love you American, I love you Danish... your larynx is a veritable United Nations.... Thank goodness you call New Jersey home, because I don't think it could ever recover from "The Jersey Shore" jerks without you.
Next Up: "Heartburn" and "Postcards from the Edge"
You are wonderful. I adore you. Please adopt me. Or leave the outgoing message on my cell phone.
-Caitlin
So in the past few years I think I have seen almost EVERY movie Meryl Streep has been in. Evening...Rendition... Devil Wears Prada... Doubt...It's Complicated... not to mention the delicious Julie & Julia... And she is JUST fabulous. And while watching the Today Show a few weeks ago... I heard that with this year's Golden Globes nominations, she will have been nominated 25 times. 25! Holy wow.
Well, my sister and I decided that since we have seen all of her recent work, we should start working our way through her film catalog. So last Saturday marked the first meeting of our mini Meryl Streep fan club, our viewing included "The Deer Hunter" and "Kramer vs. Kramer."
The AFI lists "The Deer Hunter" as one of the top 100 films. With all due respect to Mrs. Streep, I think it could have been skipped. 3 hours and 4 minutes of utter misery in the lives of three friends, without even a remotely positive ending. But maybe we expected our leading lady to play a larger role and since she didn't, that added to the disappointment.
"Kramer vs. Kramer" however... wonderfully emotional and even though the emphasis falls on Dustin Hoffman's character, I think it was a wonderful addition to Meryl Streep repertoire
Since our first meeting fizzled, for the next movie we decided we needed a bigger fix, so we aimed for one of her better known films.... "Out of Africa...." Robert Redford, delicious.... photography...brilliantly beautiful... Meryl... oh Meryl I love you American, I love you Danish... your larynx is a veritable United Nations.... Thank goodness you call New Jersey home, because I don't think it could ever recover from "The Jersey Shore" jerks without you.
Next Up: "Heartburn" and "Postcards from the Edge"
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