Welcome to simplystreep.com, an information source on the American actress Meryl Streep, best known from her Oscar-winning performances in "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Sophie's Choice". Her work on screen, stage and television, a career that includes some of the most acclaimed films of the last 30 years, has achieved critical acclaim and earned her the business' most prestigious awards. This unofficial website provides a base for fans which is regularly updated with all essential news on Meryl's work, an active message board plus extensive archives, media and more. Enjoy your stay! A CENTURY OF WOMEN 1994 The role of American women over the past century is examined in both documentary and dramatic form. The framework is a dramatic story which traces a fictional family and its women from generation to generation. Narrated by Jane Fonda with commentaries by Meryl Streep, Amy Irving, Jodie Foster, Jessica Lange, Glenn Close, Hillary Rodham-Clinton etc. THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 7, 1994 Of Women, by Women, for Women: The Heroes "A Century of Women" is a celebration of some lesser-known American heroes along with a few big-name figures who have helped better the lives and transform the image of women over the past 100 years. The six hours smack of a progressive-school curriculum, but the vignettes are vivid. The recounting of tribulations and accomplishments, narrated by Jane Fonda, begins tonight with two hours on "Work and Family." You can hear directly from Betty Friedan, whose book "The Feminine Mystique" is enshrined in the feminist canon; Delores Huerta, who helped organize the United Farmworkers Union, and others. Historians put the stories in context, noting how events like the Depression, World War II and the civil-rights movement transformed the role of women in the economy. That story has been told many times and with more sophistication, but the pictures give it force. And the likes of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and even Phyllis Schlafly, a dissenting presence, offer a few words. (For more on Mrs. Clinton, who is drawing much attention these days, see "Hillary Rodham Clinton: Changing the Rules," tonight at 8 P.M. on the Arts & Entertainment Network's "Biography" series.) Unfortunately, the producers also insert fictional episodes having to do with a family get-together of five generations of women. The script, programmed to touch on the issues of career and children, is stilted when it is not soggy, the game efforts of the estimable Olympia Dukakis notwithstanding. Tomorrow night, on "Sexuality and Social Justice," you can hear about Edna St. Vincent Millay (Blythe Danner) and Margaret Sanger (Meryl Streep) and hear from Gloria Steinem, Joan Baez, Erica Jong and other notables. Among those recalled on Thursday, on "Image and Popular Culture," are Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Amelia Earhart, Bessie Smith and Lucille Ball. "A Century of Women," pop history with a feminist sheen, seems aimed at adolescent girls, and given American students' dim knowledge of their country's past, the series must be welcomed. Maybe it will even induce some viewers to go beyond the icons on display here and look into the complexities and contradictions of change that are treated only glancingly and predictably this week. LINKS & RESEARCH Order "A Century of Women" Purchase this documentary at Amazon.com SHOPPING VHS - USA Format: NTSC Video: Widescreen Languages: English BUY VHS AT AMAZON.COM DVD Release: September 14, 1994 Region Code: 1 Distributor: Warner Home Video ASIN: 6303191754 << BACK TO CAREER OVERVIEW