Meryl Streep is the best of the best. Her performance in Sophie’s Choice (1982) has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actress winner ever, according to a Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film ...

Meryl Streep isn’t one of your actors who shows up, memorizes lines, and walks away. She is known for reinventing herself every single time she’s on screen. From a tormented Holocaust survivor in ...

Samuel Johnson, the first great literary critic, wrote a marvelously cogent and perceptive introduction to the plays of William Shakespeare. Yet he confessed that one scene was simply too much for him ...