Meryl Streep COURAGE AGAINST CANCER In 1976, Meryl Streep met her first great love, Godfather actor John Cazale, when the pair costarred in director Joe Papp’s Shakespeare in the Park production. Their romance quickly escalated, with Meryl moving into his New York apartment. But just a year later, her world fell apart when John was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Meryl transformed from girlfriend to vigilant nurse, never leaving his side during months of chemo, until his death in Meryl and John 1978. “She took care starred in The Deer of him like there Hunter together was nobody else on during his battle Earth,” said Joe. “She with cancer. never betrayed him.”
Viola Davis PAIN AND POVERTY Born in a one-room sharecroppers’ shack on a former plantation, Viola’s life did not improve when she moved north. As a child, the star lived in abject poverty, staying with her parents and five siblings in a series of dilapidated condemned buildings, without heat or electricity. And although Davis “never for a moment” doubted her father Dan’s love, he was an alcoholic who beat her mother, Mae Alice. Viola’s mom would “go into a closet and hide in the back all night and just cry,” she’s said. The Oscar Viola said she winner’s first acting “sacrificed a prize was a plastic childhood for food baseball bat — and grew up in which she used to immense shame.” kill rats.
NOTHING CAN FENCE HER IN!