Friday, December 18, 2009

meryl, meryl

i was glossing over AFI'S top women screen legends the other day and i compared and contrasted their careers and their films that i want to see. audrey hepburn is high up the list and it left me bewildered, marilyn monroe is even included and got ranked higher than liz taylor and joan crawford. hype is huge when it comes to these rankings, so i took a glance at their lovelives and saw a few wrecks. with the exception of grace kelly, i concluded, yes, none of them is like meryl streep.

one of the things about ms. streep that is enviable is her rock solid marriage. she also graduated from yale drama. she could switch from comedy to drama to musical without hardly a sweat. she collars an academy award nominations by just doing a film. she's simply great for the entertainment industry. she was already 45 when she did bridges of madison county which was replete in pinoy censorhip contorversies back in the day. but here she is, at 60, as viable as ever, with nominations from both the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards, critically-lauded as usual.

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