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Meryl Streep Narrates Katrina Doc

I still haven't seen The Devil Wears Prada, but I've heard that Meryl Streep's performance is the best part of the whole thing. With a grace very few, if any, actors possess today, it seems Ms. Streep can do no wrong.

Her streak isn't near over; IMDb says she's got half a dozen projects lined up over the coming year. Not listed, however, is one project with a little more substance than Prada. Streep is set to narrate an upcoming documentary from MacGillivray Freeman Films. "Hurricane on the Bayou" is a doc about Katrina and its aftermath. I'm not sure about the several other Katrina films we've been hearing about lately, but it seems Bayou has a message for America.

The film centers around "a profound musical celebration of a city that has been called the soul of America." Among the residents profiled are a 14-year-old fiddle player and music producer-songwriter Allen Toussaint.

Streep, who voiced director Greg MacGillivray's 1995 The Living Sea, will lend credit to the film. Says MacGillivray: "Meryl Streep's ability to connect with audiences and the depth she brings to everything she does makes her the ideal narrator for this film, which has so many moods."

The film is set to premiere in New Orleans on the 29th of this month, the anniversary of the day Katrina ripped through the city. Plans are to take the film nationally by December, though the distribution will be limited to IMAX theaters.

Posted by Lisa on August 2, 2006 11:47 PM
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