Spielberg’s novel film,telling the anecdote of a female newspaper boss battling political corruption, gives the media a heroic face again in the age of TrumpMeryl Streep steps nimbly between two worlds in Steven Spielberg’s tense novel film The Post, and set in the Washington of the 1970s. Dressed in a businesslike twinset,she must handle a male-dominated newspaper boardroom, then by night become the consummate society hostess, or marshalling guests and domestic staff around her elegant home in a couture kaftan.
Streep plays Katharine “Kay” Graham,the rich, genuine-life widow who was handed control of the Washington Post after the death of her publisher father and the suicide of her husband.Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk