European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday april 2, 1986 just out of Africa meryl Streep gets heartburn by Dolores a. Barclay associated press late one night meryl Streep came in fro the with shopping bags lightly flushed and largely tired she melted into a room at a new York hotel to speak of Isak Nora and mostly meryl. The Day had been spent in rehearsal for her third movie in less than two years heartburn the novel by Nora Ephron on the writer s marriage and divorce with journalist Carl Bernstein. The evening was spent in meetings with director Mike Nichols and co Star Jack Nicholson discussing their roles As Nora and Carl. So How s life what life she almost shrieks. I Don t have a heartburn it s my retirement picture she says with a sly smile. Of really Hollywood s most worked actress is human and being a High powered performer Mother and wife can be a Tad wearing. Last fall she hit movie marquees with plenty a critical Flop based on the play by David Hare. It came just As she had finished work on out of Africa Sidney Pollack s Oscar winning Romance based on the life of danish writer Isak Dinesen. Before she could catch her breath and regroup her family in Connecticut she swept into new York to begin filming heartburn. Out of Africa brought Streep an Oscar nomination for Best actress. She portrays Isak Dinesen who went to Kenya in 1914 to marry her swedish Cousin Baron Bror Blixen. Their farm fails As does the marriage complicated by his philandering and her fascination with a Soldier of Fortune Denys Finch Hatton played by Robert Redford. I just moved out of town and i see the kids on weekends and once a week during the Middle of the week she said rejoining a stray thought about her children Henry Wolfe 7, and Mary Willa 2. Their father is sculptor Donald Gummer her husband since 1978. I Don t know How to solve the work situation because it s a daily tug i miss Call it Luck Call it tenacity Call it Talent or All three. Whatever it is the 36-year-old actress is making movies in spitfire progression the Deer Hunter 1978 the seduction of Joe Tynan 1979 Kramer is. Kramer 1979 Manhattan 1979 the French meryl Streep in a scene from out of she s already working on a new movie. Up photo lieutenant s woman 1981 still of the night 1982 Sophie s Choice 1982 Silkwood 1983 falling in love 1984 plenty 1985 out of Africa 1985. They were Lush roles for which other actresses would kill roles which lure the limelight and Pluck the prizes. She was named Best supporting actress for Kramer is. Kramer and Best actress for Sophie s Choice. Some say she has become overexposed that after a while it is not a character one sees on the screen but Only meryl Streep acting again. Others in the Industry accuse her of hogging the few meaty parts for women. The actress finds it All very irritating. In the old Days they made 17 movies a year. Now they say you re overexposed she said. If you want it you have to jump in there and juice it up. What am i supposed to do not work Why acting Why not neurosurgery i tried that she deadpanned. But acting i was Good at it and i liked it i never had any doubts that i could do it but i had doubts As to its value As a thing to do with life. Gosh. You get to live All these lives and most people Only get to live meryl Streep grew up with two Brothers in a few suburban communities in new Jersey where her father Harry Streep ii was an executive for a pharmaceutical company and her Mother Mary Louise was a commercial artist. She began taking singing lessons when she was 12. At Bernards High school in Bernardsville n.j., she was a cheerleader and starred in All the school s musicals. By the time she reached Vassar College she had ordained herself a serious actress. After College she toured with a Small rep company and finally found her Way with a scholarship to the Yale school of drama. She leaped from new Haven to new York where she talked her Way into an audition for Trelawny of the Wells at the Public theater. She won a Small part and went on to other off Broadway roles culminating with her role As Isabella in measure for measure at the new York Shakespeare festival. With each movie she does indeed believe it might end. Like every actor i always think this was the last Job that they la never ask me again she said. So i Don t have a game plan for the there s More to music videos than Rock by Randolph Picht associated press a dozen musicians from the Rochester philharmonic orchestra in Rochester n.y.,believe there is More to music videos than sex and drugs and Rock n Roll. Well at least Rock n1 Roll. They be made a five minute classical music video starring themselves and featuring the music of 19th-Century French composer Hector Berlioz. They Hope it will be the beginning of a successful new business. This is very new and very different but i think there s a Market for it said William Cahn a percussionist in the orchestra and organizer of Rochester classical video. The video will be distributed first to european television stations because they regularly broadcast classical music. Cable television networks in the United states such As Home Box office and cinemas will also get a sales pitch. Initially we re trying to sell this As a Short subject piece something to fill in the Gap in programming Cahn said in an interview. Though the Berlioz video has t been made available for retail Sale or viewing on music television mtg Cahn sees it As a possibility if the project is successful. However the Rock and pop oriented music channels Aren t necessarily looking for classical videos. We re always open to new things but classical music is not the format of either vh1 or mtg said Carole Robinson a spokeswoman for vh1, a Cable television music video Channel aimed at an adult audience and owned and operated by mtg. Each video is judged on a Case by Case basis and i could t say what we would do with it until we saw it she said adding that a video with classical music from the movie amadeus has appeared on the vh1 Channel. Cahn s video stars Enrique Arturo Diemecke conductor of the Rochester philharmonic As an opium intoxicated musician hallucinating about being in prison and yearning for a Beautiful woman he once knew. The plot is based on the Story from March to the scaffold the fourth movement of Berlioz s symphonic Fantas Tique. Berlioz was 27 when he wrote the music younger than Many of today s Rock stars noted Cahn who described the piece As a powerful musical description of romantic love and rejected passion with undercurrents of ill concealed it was written in 1830 when composers believed their music should outline a Story so they included explanatory remarks in the form of a program that was Given to the audience. We be taken the ideas behind Rock videos and basically applied them to what a 27-year-old was doing 150 years Cahn said adding that March to the scaffold was used because it s Short and exciting and tells a bizarre Story. We thought it fit into some of the things being shown on mtg in terms of fantasy said Cahn who wrote and directed the video. Diemecke is shown tossing and turning on a prison bed As visions of musicians shrouded in fog and a blonde woman standing in a Field appear before him. Suddenly a musician playing the Bass turns into a hooded executioner a Guillotine Blade drops and Diemecke s head is shown flying through the Field searching for the alluring blonde played by Cahn s wife Ruth there Are no words to Tell the Story and Cahn said that was More of a Challenge than a problem it Felt like we were creating silent movies in
