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Queen Meryl - The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep (Hardcover)
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Queen Meryl - The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep (Hardcover)
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Meryl Streep is the most celebrated actress of our time. She's a
chameleon who disappears fully into each character she plays. She
never tackles the same role twice. Instead, she leverages her
rarified platform to channel a range of tough, complicated
women--Margaret Thatcher, Karen Silkwood, the Anna Wintour avatar
Miranda Priestly--rather than limit herself to marginal roles for
which other actresses must settle: Supportive Wife. Supportive
Mother. Supportive Yet Utterly Disposable Love Interest to the
Leading Man. Streep will have none of that. The once-awkward,
frizzy-haired suburban teen blossomed into a rising ingenue who
quickly made a name on stage at Vassar College and the Yale School
of Drama, where she pursued prestigious theater degrees. She came
of age during the women's movement of the Sixties and Seventies,
and has worn her activism on her sleeve even when it was
unfashionable. When she reached 40, the age when many leading
ladies in Hollywood fully transition to those "supportive" roles,
Streep plunged forward, taking her pick of parts that interested
her and winning a pile of awards along the way. She's broken
records with 21 Oscar nominations, winning Best Actress twice for
Sophie's Choice and The Iron Lady and Best Supporting Actress for
Kramer vs. Kramer. Meanwhile, she remained an unlikely box-office
draw, her clout even managing to grow with age: The Devil Wears
Prada, starring Streep as a brilliant and sadistic magazine
editrix, scored $125 million worldwide. Her next film, Mary Poppins
Returns, with Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel Miranda, is poised for
bigger success. Queen Meryl will pay tribute to the fearless icon,
documenting all of her accents, Oscars, highs, lows, friendships,
and feuds. It will also explore her "off-brand" forays into
action-adventure (The River Wild) and musicals (Mamma Mia!), and
how she managed to do a lot with a little, and sneak her feminism
into each character. In the spirit of Notorious RBG and The Tao of
Bill Murray, two bestsellers as nontraditional as Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and Bill Murray, Queen Merylwill transmit joy in homage to
its allegedly serious subject.
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