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Meryl Streep had no 'Doubt' about playing a nun

HOLLYWOOD Did former presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani influence Meryl Streep's portrayal of conservative avenging nun Sister Aloysius in "Doubt"? Consider, there is that moral certitude, the strange pursing of the lips, the occasionally maniacal righteousness.

"I'll never tell," Streep says with a giggle. Then, she slyly suggests a certain affinity between the two, that like Sister Aloysius,...

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