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Entertainment | 12/11/2008 7:30 am

Meryl Streep's 10 Best … Yet

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The Deer Hunter
From the very beginning of her career Meryl Streep has held her own alongside such drama geniuses as Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Shirley MacLaine and Clint Eastwood. In celebration of the release of Meryl Streep’s newest film — “Doubt” — we’ve put together a list of our ten favorite Meryl Streep movies and roles that leave us wondering: Is there any role she can’t master? She’s certainly a wOw kind of woman as she never ceases to amaze us with her seemingly limitless dramatic abilities. From stilettos-of-steel fashion-magazine editrix to heartwarming-yet-heartbreaking Polish Holocaust survivor, she’s had us in tears and in stitches … and everything in between. Read on to see ten of our favorite Meryl moments in film. Tell us: What’s your favorite Meryl Streep role?
Read more about: Anne Hathaway, Clint Eastwood, Doubt, Dustin Hoffman, Ed Begley Jr., Entertainment, Film, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lily Tomlin, Lindsay Lohan, Meryl Streep, Nicolas Cage, Roseanne Barr, Shirley MacLaine, Uma Thurman

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f p
Sophie in Sophie’s Choice
By f p on 12/11/2008 8:14 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
Yes, Frank, a character that breaks your heart. I assume you have read the book–––Styron at his best. One of my all time favorite films is “The Deer Hunter”––Meryl’s performance along with everyone else’s is so perfect, so riveting! She is what we could call an actor’s actor. While she was studying at Yale here she performed in many of the plays at the Yale Repertory Theater.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 12/11/2008 8:38 am
f p
Yes it is-Styron at his best, Phyllis—a truly great American novel
By f p on 12/11/2008 11:30 am
Susan B
Agreed.
By Susan B on 12/12/2008 1:16 am
J B
“Out Of Africa” will always be my favorite movie and my favorite Meryl Streep performance. It is a beautiful movie.
By J B on 12/11/2008 9:45 am
Frannie Em
Does anyone remember the name of the mini-series she was in about Nazi Germany? She played a young girl. It was before Deer Hunter.
By Frannie Em on 12/11/2008 11:34 am
f p
Frannie it was Holocaust in 1978: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077025/
By f p on 12/11/2008 12:24 pm
Frannie Em
Thanks Frank how obvious.
By Frannie Em on 12/12/2008 9:14 pm
Mary Mooney
It must have been so hard to stop at ten. I’ve adored this woman for 30 years. Her roles in the Deer Hunter and Sophie’s Choice were probably my favorite. The scene in which Sophie chose is the most heartrending footage I’ve ever seen. Of those not chosen, the most deserving were her role as Karen Silkwood in Silkwood, and one of her very first roles, in Holocaust. Either of these should have trumped She Devil.
By Mary Mooney on 12/11/2008 9:49 am
Lorraine Bates
Definitely Sophie’s Chooice - that movie still haunts me. But I must say, She-Devil is a guilty pleasure of mine, and I was amazed and impressed at her performance in Mama Mia!
By Lorraine Bates on 12/11/2008 9:51 am
Frannie Em
Sophie’s Choice tops it for me. Then Bridges, Prada, and She-Devil. She was so funny in She-Devil, who knew? I wish someone would write a really funny role for her that was intelligent, where she didn’t have to be brought down to talk about ear wax and her son’s penis.
By Frannie Em on 12/11/2008 11:32 am
Maurine H
Whenever she’s interviewed Meryl Streep is a bit shy, very funny, and obviously intelligent. Then she makes a film and her magic fills the screen. Sometimes it’s very subtle and disciplined (The Hours) and sometimes it’s exuberant (Mamma Mia), but it’s always absolutely, purely magical. My favorites are The French Lieutenant’s Woman, House of the Spirits, Out of Africa, Sophie’s Choice, The Bridges of Madison County, The Devil Wears Prada - what am I saying? If Meryl Streep recited the alphabet, I’d probably break down in tears or laugh my head off - depending on how she treated each letter.
By Maurine H on 12/11/2008 12:50 pm
f p
Maurine—The French Lieutenant;s Woman—great novel by John Fowles and a really superb film by Karel Reisz (sp?)
By f p on 12/13/2008 8:20 am
Maurine H
Frank - yes, absolutely. I read the book before seeing the film and wasn’t disappointed for once in the movie version.
By Maurine H on 12/14/2008 1:52 pm
f p
Yes Maurine—the screenplay by Harold Pinter was excellent—probably the only way the multiple endings could be handled— I’ve read the book many times since it first came out.
By f p on 12/14/2008 4:04 pm
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