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Too Many Cooks
I find the comment below a tetch cruel. Meryl Streep, meanwhile, is nothing less than the prima donna of contemporary American cinema; the virtual monopolist, inasmuch as she can play practically anything, of the plum female roles “of a certain age,” few as they nowadays are; the envy, and conceivably the voodoo doll, of the fallen-away actresses of her generation (Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Debra Winger, Kathleen Turner, et al.); not only the absolute ruler but just about the sole survivor. While it's true that Streep is the queen among her near 60 movie actress sisterhood, the actresses you mention above are hardly fallen-away. Close has been getting raves for her lead performances in some TV series. Lange has just been Emmy nominated for her brilliant work in Grey Gardens. Spacek's latest picture, Get Low, will have it's world premiere as a prestigious gala in a month at the Toronto Film Festival, is only one of 3 working actresses to be nominated for more 5 best actress nominations (incl Fonda & Streep) and 9 ever. One of her noms was this decade for In the Bedroom, where she won most of the major film awards that year. Winger just had a plum role in the Jonathan Demme directed Rachel Getting Married playing oscar nominee Anne Hathaway's mother. Turner, while mostly off screens now, seems to be thriving on stage.— August 13, 2009 7:52 a.m.