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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
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A mini-musical in three acts, this 35mm film grew out of distinct periods in Laurie Simmons’s
photographic work. Vintage child-craft puppets enact the pain and regret that erupt between
two feuding families. A female ventriloquist dummy (played by Meryl Streep) sings about the
failures of at-
tachment and communication to her six dummy suitors. Walking objects—including a
gun, a house, and a pocket watch—dance their hearts out in order to be noticed.
TIME OUT NEW YORK, MAY 18, 2006
FIRST PICTURE SHOW
Meryl Streep sings, a handgun dances and puppets lament in Laurie Simmons’s filmmaking debut.
By Andrea K. Scott. “Objects dream and talk in their sleep,” wrote Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, and art- |
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ist Laurie Simmons clearly agrees. Inanimate objects have been dreaming in Simmons’s set-up photographs
for years: Watches, cameras and houses teeter on human legs in her iconic images of the ’80s.
In the ’90s, she turned her lens on male ventriloquist dummies, adding scenes of their
daydreams in Photoshop. Now, in her first-ever film, The Music of Regret, Simmons gives her
subjects a voice. The 40-minute-long movie, which premieres at MoMA this week, has the
classic, three-act structure of a musical—and the Sondheim-flavored, bittersweet songs to go
with it. (The artist wrote the lyrics and Michael Rohatyn composed the music.) Act I tracks
two feuding families, played by identical sets of hand puppets. Act II stars Meryl Streep,
crooning to dummies as Simmons’s alter ego (her long, auburn hair is the tip-off). And in Act
III, Alvin Ailey dancers “audition” onstage, wearing costumes that reprise the uncanny objects
of the artist’s early work. Simmons directed with the aid of an A-list crew (cinematographer
Ed Lachman just shot Robert Altman’s Prairie Home Companion). 
Time Out New York article, May 18 2006
Full article on the film and an interview with Laurie Simmons
MoMa.org - The Museum of Modern Art
Official website with museum history, calendar of events and articles
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