I read this article in the nytimes and and can’t help but comment. For a few years now, I have lamented the fact that the average joe can’t seem to differentiate a great actress from her cleavage. I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Scott about the talented Ms Streep. By far, she is my favorite actress of all time and I couldn’t have said it better than he did. Think about it, unlike many of the other idolized ‘actresses’ of our time that seem to play the same role over and over, she has nothing left to prove.

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“But real movie stars know no such limitations of context. They belong to everyone. The genius of Julia Child was to demystify her art, to insist that anyone could cook the way she did, and Ms. Streep does something similar. Not that any of us could act with such consummate skill, resourcefulness and dignity. We can’t be Meryl Streep. And yet, whoever she is pretending to be at the moment, however she is, with sublime calculation and faultless craft, being herself, we can’t help but feel that she is one of us.”