joe papp could be a taskmaster, yes? not to me. ( laughter ) >> safer: papp gave her her first break on broadway-- a small role in a period piece called "trelawny of the wells." joe papp asked you if you could do a southern accent? >> streep: yes, and he said, "wait. try... do this southern. can you... can you do a southern accent?" i'm from not even southern new jersey, you know? i pulled it up out of probably some 4:00 movie somewhere. >> safer: i heard it was from "the dinah shore show." >> streep: oh, yeah. maybe that was it. ♪ see the usa in your chevrolet... remember that? >> safer: yes. >> streep: oh, god, wasn't she divine? >> streep: here's where i forgot my lines in "the seagull." >> safer: soon, she was doing the classics on this outdoor stage, competing with airplanes, heat, rain and more. >> streep: quack, quack. >> safer: ducks. >> streep: do you hear that? >> safer: her career took off so fast that, one summer, she did "taming of the shrew" here at night... >> hey, hey, hey. >> safer: ...and during the day

joe papp then put in an urgent call to his new york senator moynahan and got me on the phone instead.n the senate floor. havel arrested again. we've got to do something. by then history was moving faster than anyone would have thought. we were only ten months a i way from the collapse of the berlin wall. something then that felt a hundred years away. dictatorship was losing grip on eastern. havel's release in may of 1989, he resumed his work of undermining the dictatorship. he continued in prague theater where he strategized the overthrow of the government. something few in his country or the world thought possible just months before. and by year's end, havel had gone from the prisoner playwright to the president of czechoslovakia. the transfer of power occurred without firing a shot. it became known as the velvet revolution. after hearing of havel's death, president obama said this. his peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon. in his memoir to the castle an