Meryl Streep, luckless thespian
Sometimes The Onion's stories and editorials are pointed satire and sometimes they're just goofy conceits and absurdities. The much-discussed fake Meryl Streep editorial is something else. In it, "Streep" bemusedly points out that despite her reputation as one of America's best actresses, she's never owned a flat-out masterpiece. If you rewrote it not in Streep's voice, there's actually no joke; it's actually just kind of a curious thing someone picked up on. She accurately describes "The Deer Hunter" as "overrated" and moans about her luck with directors: "The annoying thing about all of this is that I've worked with directors who have produced some of the finest films in American cinema. I'm just not in any of them. I do a movie with Robert Altman, but it's 'A Prairie Home Companion.' Mike Nichols calls me up, not for 'Carnal Knowledge,' but 'Heartburn.'" True and true. (Nichols also called her up...
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