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   Sophie's Choice (novel)

   Written and directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film was nominated for Academy Awards for its screenplay, musical score, cinematography, and costume design, as well as the performance of Meryl Streep in the title role. Only Streep received a statue.
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   Bette Davis

   ↑ "Hunt Is on for Statue Of Nude Bette Davis." ... | Preceded by Meryl Streep for Holocaust | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie 1979 for Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter | Succeeded by Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker |
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   Cher

   She was next cast as alongside Meryl Streep and Kurt Russell in the drama Silkwood (1983) in which she played a Streep’s blue-collar lesbian roommate. ... The film received many positive reviews from critics.
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   A Cry in the Dark

   Gossip about her begins to swell and soon is accepted as statements of fact. ... | Starring | Meryl Streep Sam Neill |
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   Pierce Brosnan

   The film was better received than After the Sunset and garnered more positive reviews. ... ↑ "Pierce Brosnan to Romance Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia!
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   Postcards from the Edge

   Postcards from the Edge received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Meryl Streep) and Best Music, Original Song (Shel Silverstein for "I'm Checkin' Out").
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   Scott Rudin

   Keaton was also in Albert Brooks' Mother (1996, with Debbie Reynolds) and alongside Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro in Marvin's Room (1996), a film that also featured a young Leonardo DiCaprio playing an emotionally disturbed boy. ... Notes on a Scandal received three other Oscar nominations: Blanchett for supporting role, Patrick Marber for Best Adapted Screenplay and Philip Glass Academy Award for Best Original Score.
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   World Trade Center in popular culture

   The 1988 film She-Devil, with Roseanne Barr and Meryl Streep, briefly features the WTC in the background while Barr's character is searching for an office to open her own business venture. ... Afterwards, shots of the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building were used.
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   Diane Keaton

   (Those who performed nude received a $50 bonus.) ... Meryl Streep played her estranged sister Lee, although had initially been considered for the role of Bessie.
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    Eva Perón

    The monument, which was to be a statue of a man representing the "descamisados", was projected to be larger than the Statue of Liberty. ... As early as 1978, the musical was considered as the basis for a movie, with everyone from Patti LuPone to Liza Minnelli to Michelle Pfeiffer to Meryl Streep being considered for the title role.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Sophie's Choice (novel),
• Bette Davis,
• Cher,
• A Cry in the Dark,
• Pierce Brosnan,
• Postcards from the Edge,
• Scott Rudin,
• World Trade Center in popular culture,
• Diane Keaton,
• Eva Perón