> But I think I know what happened with Meryl and her reputation for > doing accents and all. It wasn't "Sophie's Choice" that made her > Hollywood's accent pariah. It was when she did that awful New Zealand > movie about the horrible New Zealand woman who fed her little New > Zealand baby to that mean New Zealand dingo. I think it was called > "The Dingo Did It" or something like that. >
The movie was CRY IN THE DARK. Her character was unsympathetic and she did not show emotions traditionally expected of a mother whose child was missing, and Streep played it so inch-perfect that people thought she was the character herself. Streep's perfection in acting makes other to label her as a cold technician with no heart. But I always thought that she acts with all heart. Joseph (thinks that among Meryl's films, its HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS that she comes close to being miscast)
