For Meryl

What do Meryl Streep and I have in common? Mamma Mia! At least that, anyway. She says:

The first part was really wordy, and then Dancing Queen started up. And for the rest of the show they were dancing on their chairs and they were so, so happy. We all went out of the theatre floating on the air. I thought, 'What a gift to New York right now'.

Which is exactly right. You might wonder, therefore, why anyone might feel that Streep should have to justify her appearance in the movie version:

In press screenings there are murmurs that to be singing karaoke Abba songs in a relentlessly cheerful Hollywood musical is a terrible career misstep.

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Isn't this role beneath you, I ask.

For one thing, what else does she have to do? She's only, already, one of the finest screen actors of her generation. For another thing, what the hell is troublesome - to anyone - about appearing in a dramatic extravaganza that millions of people love?

You've heard of 'people who need people'. Someone should write the song for 'people who need an issue when there isn't one'. It could be sung by a chorus of critics, journalists and bloggers.