Posted on 09/30/2015 12:00:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Meryl Streep doesn’t define herself by the F-word.
“I’m a humanist, I am for a nice easy balance,” the Oscar winner told Time Out London when asked if she fancies herself a feminist.
But the 66-year-old, who plays British political activist Emmeline Pankhurst in the upcoming flick “Suffragette,” isn’t holding back about sexism in Hollywood either.
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Fact, her daughter was pretty bad in AHS but she tatooed up real nice. Streep is a good actress, but man I remember hating her guts after seeing Kramer vs. Kramer. Yeah, just playing a part...
Go back to her testimony before Congress back in the late 80's when she said that Alar, a growth chemical, that was used on Apples and other produce to keep the abscission cell layer from deteriorating too soon so the apples would hang longer on the tree which would increase sugar content and color.
The result of her testimony, which influenced the Congressional doofuses was that Alar was banned mid-season and cost the apple industry millions. It took years to develop other products, which were more expensive, to replace it. In the meantime, many growers were caused to go bankrupt.
Why, the market dropped below the cost of production and the growers couldn't pay back their loans.
So, as one who observed the tragedy caused in part by this twit, I have no use for her and I have even less use for the other twit, Fonda.
I may have been drunk when I saw it, but thought her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher was pretty good. I also like “Julie and Julia”
I ended up in a corner with Meryl Streep after several takes of a movie shoot. She has two of the best legs in Hollywood...after my wife of course.
Now I have to go look. See what you did.
She can be a humanist if she wants......they have no core and elevate the person over all else. I have never found her smug half-smile even remotely attractive. She can be good in some movies, but her political bent always colors her acting in nearly all of her roles. My husband refuses to go to any Meryl Streep movies.....he cannot stand her.
She is just plain ugly to me, a nose like that
could carve wood, no wonder they got her for the devil
wears prada.
I never knew that! Then again in the late 80s I was only a toddler. Still, if I based my watching habits on the political agenda of Holly Wood stars, my DVD shelf would be pretty much empty. You can only watch Gran Turismo so many times (if you haven’t seen it you will laugh for 2 hours straight, Clint Eastwood gold).
Are all actresses a ‘disgrace to real women’? Streep holds an MFA. She’s quite accomplished.
Sure. He's an actor from New York. What else would his positions be? He doesn't talk about them though, so who cares?
Two things about Pacino: 1) He used to work for Commentary Magazine. Of course, they were still a liberal publication back then, and he was only in the mailroom, but it's a strange match-up.
2) He plays sleazy -- or at least very flawed -- liberals: the mayor in City Hall, the PR guy in People I Know, Jack Kevorkian in You Don't Know Jack.
It's not an ideological thing. It's just if you're making a big city drama, something like a tragedy, the people who have the power and lose it catastrophically are likely to be liberals.
I guess it's the flipside of the crusading liberal roles guys like Redford and Clooney do, but it's more realistic and more welcome than the usual self-congratulatory stuff.
She may just be trying to say that she doesn't want to be pigeon-holed as a feminist or that she doesn't always support women over men in every situation.
I was never a big fan, but she's good at what she does and isn't too much of a pain to the rest of us.
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