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Slotek: What life was like at the movies before superheroes took over
Edit Toronto Sun 21 May 2016
Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine a world where there was no such thing as a superhero movie ... The chapter was about the turmoil that went into her breakthrough role in 1979’s Kramer vs. Kramer ... The upshot of the piece was that Kramer vs. Kramer went on to gross $106 million domestically, a whisker less than Superman ... As for Kramer vs. Kramer, if it were put up as a project today, it would need funding from Kickstarter....
What’s your favorite movie?
Edit The Oklahoman 09 May 2016
“So, what's your favorite movie?” That’s a question that has come up quite often since I wrote my first Deseret News movie review in 1978. Yes, 1978. I’ve been writing about movies now for nearly … gulp … 40 years ... In the ’90s, I’d let in big-ticket films such as “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Tootsie” and “Kramer vs. Kramer,” and some of my smaller favorites, such as “Tender Mercies,” “The Elephant Man” and “Moonstruck.”....
Asking a critic to name his favorite movie is a loaded question
Edit Deseret News 06 May 2016
Yes, 1978. I’ve been writing about movies now for nearly … gulp … 40 years. But the answer is fluid ... In the ’90s, I’d let in big-ticket films such as “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Tootsie” and “Kramer vs. Kramer,” and some of my smaller favorites, such as “Tender Mercies,” “The Elephant Man” and “Moonstruck.” ... ....
Richard Russo discusses ‘Everybody’s Fool,’ a sequel to his 1993 novel, ‘Nobody’s Fool’
Edit The Oklahoman 04 May 2016
Fans of Richard Russo will agree. “Empire Falls” (2001) may have won the Pulitzer Prize, and “Straight Man” (1997) is one of the funniest books ever set on a college campus, but “Nobody’s Fool” (1993) occupies a uniquely tender spot in our hearts ... Knopf; 477 pages, $27.95) ... The director of “Nobody’s Fool” was the great Robert Benton “Kramer vs. Kramer,” “Places in the Heart”], and he was one of the first people I sent the manuscript to ... ....
Schulman highlights Streep's early career in 'Her Again'
Edit Times Union 02 May 2016
"Her Again. Becoming Meryl Streep" (Harper), by Michael Schulman. Michael Schulman shares delightfully entertaining stories surrounding Meryl Streep's early rise to stardom in "Her Again." ... The two become inseparable ... She found love again with Gummer and continued to perform onstage, auditioning for a role that would change the tapestry of her career — Joanna Kramer in the 1979 film "Kramer vs. Kramer." ... ___. Online.....
Jason Bateman on What It’s Like to Direct Christopher Walken
Edit Vanity Fair 28 Apr 2016
Jason Bateman likes big, broad comedies—he’s starred in plenty of them, of course, from Horrible Bosses to the currently in production Office Christmas Party ... Films like Kramer vs. Kramer or All the Presidents Men or The Verdict - all of these sort of “adult” films used to be the blockbusters,” Bateman remembers. “Nowadays, they’re an anomaly at the theaters, and that’s a shame ... Hello! ... ....
Friday Focus: the A-League grand final match-up that nobody expected
Edit The Guardian 28 Apr 2016
Sunday’s A-League final will pit a team nobody believed in at the start of the season against a band of over-achievers who’ve successfully rebuilt in 2016. @PFConnolly. “It hasn’t been a great start to the season,” Adelaide United coach Guillermo Amor said on December 6, and no-one was falling over themselves to contradict him ... Amor, however, seemed calmer than he had any right to be ... Again ... It was the Kramer vs. Kramer of football games ... ....
The tragic romance that shaped Meryl Streep’s life
Edit New York Post 23 Apr 2016
In 1978, a young Meryl Streep was on the verge of becoming the greatest actress of her generation. She was also about to lose the love of her life ... Sad, black eyes ... ... She won an Emmy for “Holocaust,” an Oscar nomination for “The Deer Hunter,” was cast in a career-making role in 1979’s “Kramer vs. Kramer” — which won her the Academy Award — and was cast as Kate in Shakespeare in the Park’s “The Taming of the Shrew.” She had become a star....
Meryl Streep Admits the One Role She’s Not Satisfied With
Edit Vanity Fair 17 Apr 2016
A new appearance from Meryl Streep on The Graham Norton Show last Friday presents an intriguing paradox ... (The early days of Streep's legendary career are profiled in Vanity Fair’s new cover feature.) Enlarge SlideshowPhotos.1/8. Photos. Meryl Streep Before She Was a Star. X ... Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman while filming 1979’s Kramer vs. Kramer ... PreviousNext. ....
Meryl Streep could go unrecognised before The Devil Wears Prada
Edit Belfast Telegraph 16 Apr 2016
Meryl Streep became a "celebrity rather than an actress" and could no longer fly under the radar after The Devil Wears Prada ... Share Go To. The veteran actress has scored a number of Academy Award nominations and won for Sophie's Choice and Kramer vs. Kramer in the 1980s but the general public still had no idea who she was when off-duty ... talk show host Graham Norton ... “It was fantastic – no one recognised or noticed me," she adds ... ....
Meryl Streep’s Rocky Rise To Fame
Edit Inquisitr 12 Apr 2016
Meryl Streep has made her way to the top by sheer determination and hard work. The journey to the top was no easy feat and her positive attitude has helped the Sophie’s Choice actress to overcome obstacles by seeing the brighter side of life ... I love the violin and I love Meryl ... people ... Just a few months after John Cazale’s death, she was offered a role working alongside Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer ... In Her Again....
8 Terrible Films That Somehow Won The Best Picture Oscar
Edit What Culture 04 Apr 2016
Momentum Pictures ... For instance, in 1979 Apocalypse Now should have of course won Best Picture, but it didn’t, losing out to Kramer vs. Kramer instead. That’s not the right choice, but Kramer vs. Kramer is still a very good film in it’s own right ... ....
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