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"Parts are rare," Streep says, "the amount of product is rare. It's a large machine that markets these films, that makes theatre [cinema] owners commit their theatres half a year in advance -- that's how it works. Are they gonna buy GI Joe or are they gonna buy Mamma Mia!?" There are good roles for women, but the films rarely enter the mainstream, she says. Full Article at Irish Independent
the amount of product is rare. It's a large machine that markets these films, that makes theatre [cinema] owners commit their theatres half a year in advance -- that's how it works. Are they gonna buy GI Joe or are they gonna buy Mamma Mia!?
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Meryl Streep: Why Hollywood's men don't trust women . . .
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Yes, I've lost it 13 times!
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But I do need enforced rest in my career. When each of my children was born I took a year off. It's very nice to have time to live, gather experiences, watch other people.
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I think we have to be a little bit generous and spread it around. I've had a lot of work.
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The vote at home is yes. I've learnt not to rush. I'm snobby about the equipment. The pan does matter. I got my stove recalibrated to correct the flames. I got my knives sharpened. I had to unlearn onion chopping.
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I keep thinking I should get a good answer for that question.
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and my mother [Mary] having it [Child's show] on. My mother was not a cook. Her cookbook was Peg Bracken's I Hate to Cook Book.
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Ooh, yes. It would be fun. But my friend Glenn [Close] really knocked it out of the park with that on Broadway so I think she'll have first shot.
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To everyone else it was ... It was a big number. The biggest thing that happened was not to do with my age but my youngest [Louisa] graduating from high school and going off to college. I always said when she did I would do theatre, but I'm so kind of exhausted at the moment, the thought of doing a play...
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Yes. I'm feeling like I need a break. This is not the most fun part ... The most fun part is making the movies, the prospect of selling three in a row is... harder. Selling has more to do with wardrobe and shoes and cleaning up and being presentable.
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He's very demanding ... He hears everything, even a quasi-breath. It's almost like he's tasting, tasting, tasting . . . 'Right, that's enough salt'. It was more like working with a composer, like he was hearing music inside his head and you couldn't hear it.
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