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Excerpts: Cynthia McFadden Interviews Meryl Streephace 318 días
 
Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden sat down with legendary actress Meryl Streep. Nominated for best actress for her performance as Sister Aloysius in "Doubt," Streep talks about her role as an iron-willed nun, explains why she prefers to play difficult women and her true feelings about losing the Oscar in the past, and what her future holds.

Best actress nominee Meryl Streep talks to "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden.
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More PhotosThe following are excerpts from the interview, which will air Monday, Jan. 26 on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. ET

McFadden: It's award season. Good time of the year for you or bad time of the year for you? I mean, do you still get the little nervous feelings?

Streep: Oh yeah, very very much so. It's very nerve-racking. But you know, there's so much more chatter about it. There's so much more writing about, blogging about it and everybody sort of decides way ahead of when things are decided. You know by the voting thing so that it all gets very hyperbolic.

McFadden: Do you get your feelings hurt if you don't win?

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McFadden: The truth! How does the "world's greatest living actress" mantle sit?

Streep: It's completely, honestly, Cynthia, it is meaningless …

McFadden: Meaningless?

Streep: Yeah, because there is no such thing, there is no such thing. There is no such entity.

McFadden: You said you like to play difficult women?

Streep: Yeah, I do.

McFadden: Why?

Streep: Because their contradictions are so vivid and we're all so good at hiding ours. So in the course of a normal day, we all suppress what's hideous and the people that are interesting and sort of the one who just let it hang out.

McFadden: You know watching the film, I looked at Sister Aloysius and I wondered if she was the Miranda Priestley [Streep's character in "The Devil Wears Prada"] of the convent. They have a lot in common, these two women. Women in power, women with authority, women that other people are sort of pushed back by a bit. What do you think?

Streep: Wel, I see sort of a parallel in that women in power are still kind of terrifying to us and so Sister Aloysius is terrifying because of her demeanor and so is Miranda Priestley. But we are uncomfortable still with women in power and we don't really know, still, I think it's a complicated negotiation on the part of the person who has the authority and the people that she's bossing around.

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McFadden: Let me ask you about this last year about women in power. How did women do in the last year with Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, do you think? Are women in power seen in a more positive light, or not?

Streep: Well, we're on our way. We're on our way to understanding all of it. I think we are just getting closer and closer as an evolving species to being able to accept this. But look around, look around the world this is -- women are living as we were in this country but in the 19th century in many, many, many parts of the world. They're bartered, they are property, they don't have the rights we have -- it's very difficult for us to understand all those things. But we do have a sense that for us, that is in the past.


But all those vestigial things are in every negotiation I have with people in my business. And it's still, it's informing, it's coloring, it's coloring.

McFadden: You know, so many people think it's about the priest and the nun and in fact, in some ways of course it is. Is it about religion?

Streep: No, I think it's about dogmatism of all sorts. I think John [Patrick Shanley] has talked about how he wrote it, when we wrote it at a time when in our country there was a lot of posturing about the certainty of our course of how to go ahead. I think it's about fundamentalism of every sort. And yeah, that's what I would say.

McFadden: You're far from being an old lady, but do you have a vision of who you want to be when you are one?

Streep: Well, my mother was a pretty good role model. But I'm just never going to measure up, she was just something. But that's my goal. Part of the thing is she didn't work full-time. And part of her gifts were the richness of her friendships, and that's really hard. It's not texting each other, it's face to face. You have to be in your friends' faces and in their lives. That's something that I think I've missed by working so hard and having so many thousands of kids.



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Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixtyhace 318 días
 
She's one of the greatest stars of our time, and the most nominated actress in Oscar history. But Meryl Streep has never surrendered to the Hollywood system. As her 60th birthday approaches, she discusses her acclaimed new film – and how she manages to stay sane after 30 years at the top


It's just after 10am in Los Angeles. Meryl Streep is a long way from her comfort zone. In the belly of the Beverly Hills beast, as it were, she arrives for our encounter, in a 14th-floor suite in the Four Seasons hotel, just a few minutes behind schedule. Based on the East Coast for the majority of her life, she only ever lived here for four years – and found it an unsettling experience. Maybe it was too much like living round the corner from the office. Or, more likely, it's that Streep never was (or will be) an industry player. "Hollywood to me is what it is to you," she admits. "It's something other than what I am. I sit outside it."


It's not that she's superior or sneering. It's just that, with four children and a husband of 30 years to contend with, the fripperies of Hollywood are not a major part of her world. Everything about Streep suggests pragmatism, not excess. Take her understated dress sense: today it's blue jeans and a low-cut forest-green blouse. Her blonde hair is tied back, revealing a pair of gold-hoop earrings, and she's wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses that lend her the look of a headmistress when she peers at you. Evidently her time spent playing the Anna Wintour-like fashionista in The Devil Wears Prada did not rub off. "I live simply," she shrugs. "I don't buy a lot of fashion!"

I must admit the idea of interviewing Streep is quite intimidating. There are those record-breaking numbers: 14 Oscar nominations, two wins; 23 Golden Globe nominations, six wins; 11 Bafta nominations, one win. No other actor comes close. Then there are the films: heavyweight dramas, like the two she won her Oscars for, Sophie's Choice and Kramer vs Kramer. And the De Niro-like preparation: learning to play the violin for Music of the Heart, for example. No wonder actors are all terrified. "Even [being] in a rehearsal period, with Meryl Streep watching, is a behind-tightening experience," says Viola Davis, co-star of her new film, Doubt.

Fortunately, the reality – as both Davis and I found out – is somewhat different. If Streep was ever a diva (and there's no reason really to think she was), she's so over herself. As Davis recalls, their on-set conversations were delightfully mundane. Much to her shock, they swapped recipes. "I was thinking, 'I'm with Meryl Streep. I could ask her about Sophie's Choice and Out of Africa and A Cry in the Dark. I could tell her I love her! And we're talking about cooking!' Then, at one point, she said, 'How are your feet by the way? Do you have good feet?' I said, 'My feet are pretty good. How are your feet?' And she said, 'Oh, my feet are terrible.'" So there you have it: Meryl Streep is a domestic goddess with bad feet.

This year she turns 60 – though, bar a few wrinkles around her green eyes, as well as those feet, you'd never know. She once said she found the idea of getting older humbling. Does she still feel that way? "Well, aren't we all grateful to be alive?" she asks. "I just know lots of people ... at my age, I've lost a lot of people in my life and I'm very grateful to be here. That's what I mean." Streep has been on screen for 32 years now, since making her feature debut in Fred Zinnemann's Julia, with Jane Fonda, in 1977. Does she ever think about retirement? "I don't really," she says. "In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily ..." In other words, the phone just doesn't ring any more.

Not that there's any chance of that. Right now, Streep is riding high from the success of last year's Abba-scored musical Mamma Mia!. Most recently, it gleaned her yet another nomination at the Golden Globes (she was also up for Doubt in a different category, though lost out both times). Taking a staggering $575m (about £394m) across the globe, it's grossed more than £70m in the UK alone, beating the previous record set by Titanic to become the most successful film of all time in Britain. Was she surprised? "No!" she cries, almost indignantly. "But they were here [in Los Angeles]. Here they were surprised, because it was difficult to finance, the film. A lot of the executives would say, 'I just don't get it.'"

Alongside last year's other hit female-orientated film, Sex and the City, it got women back in cinemas, I tell her. "Well, they would always go. They've just been discouraged. So many of the decisions are made by people who are not necessarily going to be entertained themselves by something like Mamma Mia!. The fellas usually make those decisions based on what they want to see, or what they wanted to see when they were 14." Does she think the film industry is something of an old boy's network? "Well, what do you think?" she replies, raising an eyebrow. "Isn't everything an old boy's network? The film industry. The Senate. The House of Representatives. The top echelons of business. What isn't?"

Given I can do little but shrug my shoulders, she carries on. "People are uncomfortable with women leaders – in a corporation, a university, a hospital. Just pick a profession!" Interestingly, in the past five years, she's made three films that have allowed her to play out female characters in powerful positions. She was an ogre of a New York senator in The Manchurian Candidate remake, the CIA Head of Intelligence in the terrorist-torture tale Rendition and a hard-nosed reporter grilling Tom Cruise's congressman in Lions for Lambs. Did she, I wonder, ever fantasise about going into politics herself? "No, no, I never would want to, no." Not even as a teen? She looks horrified. "No, no, no, no ... oh God, no."

Even for seasoned Streep watchers, Mamma Mia! was something of a surprise. Though not the first time we'd seen her sing – she and Lily Tomlin belt their country hearts out in Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion – it was her first out-and-out musical. Evidently relishing the challenge, as she cavorted around a Greek island in dungarees with Pierce Brosnan in tow, it presented her in a light she's rarely bathed in. She was sexy, approachable, commercial – a far cry from the solemn Streep who made her reputation in dour films like Silkwood. Not that she, of course, sees it as any different. "I approach my comic work as if it was very serious drama. There's no difference in how I make a character."

While that may be true, Streep has enjoyed arguably the most varied decade of her career. There have been films for children (the animated movie The Ant Bully and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, in which she starred with Jim Carrey). There have been Oscar-contenders (The Hours), sentimental sagas (Evening) and urbane comedies (Prime). Best of all there was Adaptation, in which she played a fictionalised version of the real-life author Susan Orlean. A surreal meta-tale, it boasted the joyous, never-to-be-repeated scene that saw Streep get high on powdered orchid extract before wiggling her toes like a true space cadet. It's little wonder she doesn't want to retire: she's having the time of her life.

"I think the parts for women my age are wilder, more extreme," she says. "The protagonists of a romantic comedy – something very conventional – are written for younger women. I've always thought of myself as a character actor, anyway, a theatre or repertory actor – someone who does a lot of different things, and I've always liked to. Even when I was younger, I took on some things that were odd." As an example, she cites 1988's A Cry in the Dark, another Oscar-nominated turn in which she played Lindy Chamberlain, a Seventh Day Adventist accused of murdering her own baby daughter after she claims a dingo stole her during a camping trip in the Australian Outback. "I'm interested in people's lives and I like to investigate the truculent ones, the difficult ones," she says.

Her latest film sees her do just this. Doubt was adapted by the writer/director John Patrick Shanley from his 2004 Pultizer Prize-winning play; Streep plays Sister Aloysius, a hatchet-faced Mother Superior at a convent school in the Bronx in 1964. When fellow nun Sister James (Amy Adams) spots what she believes is evidence of improper conduct between a priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and the school's only black pupil, Sister Aloysius takes it upon herself to point the finger. Accusing Father Flynn of abusing the boy, it begins a battle of wills between the two. A meditation on morality, faith and guilt, with the question of Flynn's innocence hanging over the film, it's designed to leave you in, well, doubt.

A classic Streep performance, it's already up for a Bafta, and by the time you read this there's a strong chance it will have afforded her a 15th Oscar nomination. More importantly, it's a return to the studied work she delivered before the 1990s, when her career took a dramatic dip in wayward comedies such as She-Devil and Death Becomes Her. From the moment she first enters, staring down pupils like a Medusa, it's a startling portrait of a woman who knows she's feared and believes she's right. "She deals with the world in a very black-and-white way," says Streep. "I'm not sure that she sees it that way. But she has found that it's most effective to keep to the strictures of the church, to keep to the dictates of her faith, to keep children in line, to keep the school running, to toe a very hard line, and to make it right, clear, exactly what is expected."

Set during a time of great upheaval for the Catholic Church, with the sound of the Sixties rumbling round the corner, Sister Aloysius represents the old guard – the disciplinarian desperate to insulate those around her against the inevitable winds of change. While Flynn describes her as a "dragon", Streep ensures that her character is far more complex than that. "I think she wouldn't mind being characterised as a dragon," says Streep, "but she sees herself as protecting these flowers, these children. She's at the gate. I think she's seen this evil before. I know she has." Does religion play a part in Streep's own life, I wonder? "I follow no doctrine," she replies. "I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram."

This was not always the case. Born as Mary Louise, Streep had a lot of school friends who were Catholic and she regularly attended Mass because she loved its rituals. She was raised in suburban New Jersey, the daughter of Harry, a pharmaceutical executive, and Mary, a commercial artist, and while her upbringing was nowhere near as strict as what's seen in Doubt, I wonder if she ever had a teacher as harsh as Sister Aloysius. "Yes, I did," she nods. "It was algebra. A man. Very strict. Italian. Hard-nosed. And people were scared in that class, but people paid attention, and people learned algebra. People really learnt in that class. I had other favourite teachers that everybody loved. I remember nothing."

Still, it was music – rather than algebra – that was her first love, thanks to a particularly inspirational teacher. "I thought she was incredibly old. I've since found out she was 22! But she was wonderful. She was a student of Andrés Segovia. She played beautiful classical guitar. She just needed money to pay off her student loans, and was teaching at my public high school, and she was a great inspiration." By the time she was 12, Streep had joined the school choir and had ambitions to be an opera singer, even training with the renowned vocal coach Estelle Liebling. If anything pointed to her untapped talents, however, it was when she made her stage debut in a school Christmas production, singing "O Holy Night" in perfect French – despite having only studied the language for a short time.

Streep was a shy and quiet teenager, though. With two younger brothers – Harry, now a choreographer, and Dana, now a stockbroker – it was only when she was 15 that she came out of her shell. Playing the librarian in a school production of The Music Man, she received a standing ovation. It was a liberating moment – the mousy, bespectacled girl stopped feeling "dorky", as she once put it. She dyed her hair blonde and switched to contacts, and her popularity rocketed to the point where she was voted Homecoming Queen. Her confidence buoyed, next she won a place at the prestigious New Hampshire all-girl college, Vasser. Initially studying music, she switched to drama and didn't look back.

She went on to hone her craft at Yale's School of Drama before returning to New York in 1975. Money was tight, but Streep was content. "I don't think I ever had a good sense of how on the edge of the abyss I was," she says. "You have optimism when you're younger and I wasn't afraid." It probably helped that she made an immediate impact when she joined Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. It was during this time that she met the actor John Cazale – best known for his role as Fredo Corleone in The Godfather – when they were cast in a production of Measure for Measure. They got engaged and went on to appear together in Michael Cimino's Vietnam classic The Deer Hunter, for which Streep received the first of her Oscar nominations.

If that brought her some joy, it was tainted by tragedy. Cazale had been suffering from bone cancer through The Deer Hunter shoot and died, in March 1978, shortly after it came to an end. Streep was with him in his final weeks, nursing him through the pain. When he finally slipped away, she moved out of the flat they shared – and, purely by chance, into the life of the man she still lives with. Don Gummer, a sculptor, was a friend of her brother's and was travelling in Europe when Streep received the offer of a room in his temporarily vacant apartment. Upon his return, he invited her to stay, and within six months, they were married. Still together three decades later, it's almost more remarkable than her record number of Oscar nods.

The secret of their success? Allow each other the space to live their own lives, she says. He plays golf. She likes the arts. "I go to the theatre a lot," she notes. "My husband doesn't care if he never goes to the theatre but I don't berate him because he doesn't want to go to the theatre ... we're different." If this suggests she has struck a good balance, so does her attitude to her family. Streep took a year off after the birth of each of her four children – Henry, 29; Mamie, 25; Grace, 22; and Louisa, 17 – but as she points out, "All the rest of the time, I have pretty much worked constantly." In the past 18 months alone, she has made six films – including the forthcoming Julie & Julia, in which she plays the American food writer Julia Child, author of the classic 1961 tome Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Yet according to Streep, family has always come first. "I always think about my family life in relation to my career – it has mitigated how I chose scripts," she says. "I turned down things that would take me too far away for a long time. But I've been very fortunate. I've been with my family much more than a job which might give me two weeks off in August." While Streep's daughter Mamie has started to act too – next up in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock – her mother admits she's always daydreamed about other professions. "I always think, 'Wouldn't it be nice to write and illustrate a children's book?'" she says, wistfully. One thing's for sure: if she ever did, you can bet it'd be crafted to perfection.

'Doubt' opens nationwide on 6 February

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Meryl Movies.hace 387 días
 
How many Meryl movies have you seen??
Put a strike through the ones you have seen.

Julia
The Deer Hunter
Manhattan
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Kramer vs. Kramer
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Still of the Night
Sophie's Choice
Silkwood
Falling in Love
Plenty
Out of Africa
Heartburn
Ironweed
A Cry in the Dark
She-Devil
Postcards from the Edge
Defending Your Life
Death Becomes Her
The House of the Spirits
The River Wild
The Bridges of Madison County
Before and After
Marvin's Room
Dancing at Lughnasa
One True Thing
Chrysanthemum
Music of the Heart
Artificial Intelligence: A.I.
Adaptation
The Hours
Stuck on You
The Manchurian Candidate
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Prime
A Prairie Home Companion
The Music of Regret
The Devil Wears Prada
The Ant Bully
Dark Matter
Evening
Rendition
Lions for Lambs
Mamma Mia!
Doubt
Julie & Julia
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Julie & Juliahace 406 días
 
SCUTTLEBUTT has it that the movie "Julie & Julia," written and directed by Nora Ephron about the late cooking maven Julia Child, is finished and wonderful. (It's based on the book by Julie Powell). And its star, Meryl Streep is said to be "unbelievably fabulous."

But wait minute! Meryl has another Oscar-turn coming any minute in the film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer-plus-Tony stage play "Doubt." If you've seen coming attractions of Meryl emoting as the fearsome Sister Aloysius Beauvier against Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn -- well, then you know why nobody Oscar-wise wants Meryl competing against herself this year.

"Julia" is coming out in August 2009.
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Quoteshace 454 días
 
Haii,

This Blog is just for any Quotes you

Love that Meryl has Said, The 2 I LOve are:

(On whether Madonna should play Eva Peron in the film version of Evita instead of her): "I can sing better than she can. If Madonna gets it, I'll rip her throat out!"

"I had it (smoking), it stinks". "Entertainment Tonight" (1981).

In 1978: "I'm looking forward to bigger parts in the future, but I'm not doing soft-core scripts where the character emerges in half-light, half-dressed."

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.


I don't want to spit in the eye of good fortune, but it was weird. I felt like I'd butted in line in front of Lucille Ball, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn. Hello? How did this happen? I was only the sixth woman to receive it, but they found 26 men to give it to. I thought that was embarrassing. [on her Lifetime Achievement Award from the AFI]

I thought it was really fun, you've got to understand, but I didn't think it was a serious way to conduct your life. You know, I had a sense of mission. I was a true child of the '60s. [on her view of acting back in college]

I love doing comedy, but people just don't give me enough of a chance. It's one of the reasons I enjoy The Manchurian Candidate (2004) so much. It's because I actually get a chance to be funny.

Let's face it, we were all once 3-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

"You know, there are--there are some days when I myself think I'm overrated, but not today." (When accepting Emmy for _"Angels in America" (2003) (mini)_).

Someone once said that sometimes studio heads don't want to cast films with the image of their first wife in the role. It's just rather unpleasant for them. So they like the idea of the new one.

I loved being someone so certain. Because certainty is just so attractive in people. To me, it's a completely bogus position - for me. Because, you know, I'm listening to every side. But it's so nice not to have to listen to all the different sides. To be so clear and on your track and sure. It's a fabulous thing. Unfortunately, it leads to fanaticism. [on her role in The Manchurian Candidate (2004)]

I think I was wired for family. You know how they say people are wired for religion, or wired for this or that? I always knew I would like to, if I could find the right person, have a family. I can't imagine living single.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

"Oh boy, no matter how much you try to imagine what this is like, it's just so incredibly thrilling right down your toes." [On winning the 1983 Best Actress Oscar for Sophie's Choice (1982)].

But ... in my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

Sometimes under-preparation is very good, because it instills fear and fear is galvanizing. It makes you break out of yourself. If you're prepared, then you think you're ready, and if you think you're ready, then you're not ready.

I mean, come on; when you have people writing these things, that you're the greatest thing that ever ate scenery, you're dead. You're fucking dead. How can you even presume to begin a new character? It's a killer.

It's a lesson I learned in drama school: the teacher asks, how do you be the queen? And everybody says, 'Oh it's about posture and authority.' And they said, no, it's about how the air in the room shifts when you walk in. And that's everyone else's work.

I really, really depend on the other actors for the confirmation of who I think I am," she says. "And so it's important to me to work with good people that are not worried about how they look. You know. Real actors. They're your blood.

Part of Emmy acceptance speech for _"Angels in America" (2003) (mini)_: "Glenn [Close] is my friend so I know she'll forgive me, Helen Mirren is an acting god, and no one has put a better performance on film than Judy Davis in "The Judy Garland Story". The only one in the group is Emma Thompson, who will hold a grudge for the rest of her life. But who cares?"

[accepting the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical 2007] "I think I've worked with everyone in the room! I have!"

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body. (On her struggles as an actress earlier in her career)

My God, I was settling in for a long winter's nap. I've been nominated, like 789 times, but it hasn't been since the Mesozoic Era that I've actually won. (on winning a Golden Globe for _Adaptation._ (2002))

It would be nice to have a woman President. I think half the Senate should be women, half of Parliament, half the ruling mullahs. But that will never happen, darling!

[on Dustin Hoffman] He's energized and the greatest combination of the generous and the selfish that ever lived. He wants to be the greatest actor who ever was.

I try to lead as ordinary a life as I can. You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

I don't know what I'd do without my husband. I'd be dead, emotionally at least, if I hadn't met him. He's the greatest. - On her husband

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. But I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. - on her marriage

[On life as a young actress] When I was 20 I busked to afford accommodation. One night I hadn't earned enough, I actually slept in the open in Green Park [in London]. The view was of the Ritz Hotel and I vowed I'd stay there one day. And I have.

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Some AHole Has Written this about Meryl!hace 476 días
 
JUST PLAIN AWFUL

Or trust me on this one -- believe the critics and the so-so ratings and avoid "Mamma Mia!" as if it were a rotting chunk of feta. Meryl Streep is too old for the part, Pierce Brosnan can't sing (the audience at The Greene laughed when he lurched into song, which was the only hint of humor the movie produced) and whoever put that mess together can't direct. It may be contagious, but so is bubonic plague. It reminded me of one of those Sandra Dee/"Beach Blanket Bingo" movies -- with Botox. If you want scenery, stay home and watch the Travel Channel. I couldn't stop gagging, and I left the theater commenting to my wife (who, of course, loved it), "This is the worst movie I've ever seen." Stay home and save your money.

-- D.L. Stewart, Staff Writer

i no what i want to do to him KILL Him!
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Meryl Streep Stand Up For Cancerhace 486 días
 
HOLLYWOOD A-listers including Meryl Streep and Charlize Theron, Jennifer Aniston and Salma Hayek will join forces to battle cancer.

The event, "Stand Up to Cancer," will air simultaneously and commercial-free on three rival U.S. TV networks - ABC, CBS and NBC - during prime-time hours, and organizers hope to raise millions of dollars to fight the disease.

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"The support we've received from the creative community is remarkable," said the show's producer Laura Ziskin, a breast cancer survivor who was responsible for making the "Spider-Man" movies, "Pretty Woman" and many other films.

"My phone is constantly ringing with people asking, 'What can I do and how can I help?' We hope viewers all over the country will do the same."

Rarely is a program broadcast on all three major U.S. networks simultaneously during prime-time evening hours, which are the most lucrative times for advertisers.

Back in 2001, some 31 U.S. broadcast and cable TV networks aired a program to raise money for victims of the September 11 attacks. Film, TV and music stars worked at a phone bank as people called to pledge money. Some sang while others gave speeches and testimonials.

"Stand Up to Cancer" will be similar in its format, the producers said.

Other celebrities putting in appearances will include Jennifer Aniston, Salma Hayek and Sally Field. Even cartoon characters Homer and Marge Simpson of long-running comedy "The Simpsons" and race car driver Danica Patrick will be on hand.

From broadcast news, there will be CBS anchor Katie Couric, whose husband died of cancer, as well as NBC's Brian Williams and ABC's Charles Gibson all reporting on cancer research.

The show, which was first announced in late May, will air on September 5 at 8 p.m. EDT and PDT.
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Awardshace 491 días
 
2007 Nominated Oscar Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

2003 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for: Adaptation. (2002)

2000 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Music of the Heart (1999)

1999 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: One True Thing (1998)

1996 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

1991 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Postcards from the Edge (1990)

1989 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Evil Angels (1988)

1988 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Ironweed (1987)

1986 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Out of Africa (1985)

1984 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Silkwood (1983)

1983 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Sophie's Choice (1982)

1982 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

1980 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

1979 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for: The Deer Hunter (1978)

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2005 Nominated Saturn Award Best Supporting Actress
for: The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

1993 Nominated Saturn Award Best Actress
for: Death Becomes Her (1992)

1992 Nominated Saturn Award Best Actress
for: Defending Your Life (1991)

Aftonbladet TV Prize, Sweden YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1987 Won TV Prize Best Foreign TV Personality - Female (Bästa utländska kvinna)

American Comedy Awards, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1991 Won American Comedy Award Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
for: Postcards from the Edge (1990)

American Film Institute, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2004 - Life Achievement Award American Movie Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1980 Won Marquee Best Supporting Actress
for: The Deer Hunter (1978)

Australian Film Institute YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1989 Won AFI Award Best Actress in a Lead Role
for: Evil Angels (1988)

BAFTA Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

2005 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
for: The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

2003 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
for: The Hours (2002)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
for: Adaptation. (2002)

1987 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actress
for: Out of Africa (1985)

1985 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actress
for: Silkwood (1983)

1984 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actress
for: Sophie's Choice (1982)

1982 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Actress
for: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

1981 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actress
for: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

1980 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actress
for: The Deer Hunter (1978)

Best Supporting Actress
for: Manhattan (1979)

Berlin International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2003 Won Silver Berlin Bear Best Actress
for: The Hours (2002)
Shared with:
Nicole Kidman
Julianne Moore

1999 - Berlinale Camera Boston Society of Film Critics Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1983 Won BSFC Award Best Actress
for: Sophie's Choice (1982)

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Actress
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

2003 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Adaptation. (2002)

Cannes Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1989 Won Best Actress
for: Evil Angels (1988)

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2006 Nominated CFCA Award Best Actress
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

2003 Won CFCA Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Adaptation. (2002)

Chlotrudis Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1997 Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Marvin's Room (1996)

César Awards, France YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2003 - Honorary César David di Donatello Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1986 Won David Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniero)
for: Out of Africa (1985)

1985 Won David Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniero)
for: Falling in Love (1984)

Emmy Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2004 Won Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
for: "Angels in America" (2003)

1997 Nominated Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special
for: ...First Do No Harm (1997) (TV)

1978 Won Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series
for: "Holocaust" (1978)

Film Society of Lincoln Center YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2008 - Gala Tribute Florida Film Critics Circle Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2003 Won FFCC Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Adaptation. (2002)

Golden Globes, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

2005 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
for: The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

2004 Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
for: "Angels in America" (2003)

2003 Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
for: Adaptation. (2002)

Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: The Hours (2002)

2000 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: Music of the Heart (1999)

1999 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: One True Thing (1998)

1998 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
for: ...First Do No Harm (1997) (TV)

1997 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: Marvin's Room (1996)

1996 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

1995 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: The River Wild (1994)

1993 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
for: Death Becomes Her (1992)

1991 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
for: Postcards from the Edge (1990)

1990 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
for: She-Devil (1989)

1989 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: Evil Angels (1988)

1986 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: Out of Africa (1985)

1984 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: Silkwood (1983)

1983 Won Golden Globe Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: Sophie's Choice (1982)

1982 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama
for: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

1980 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
for: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

1979 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role
for: The Deer Hunter (1978)

Gotham Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2006 Nominated Best Ensemble Cast
for: A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Shared with:
Woody Harrelson
Tommy Lee Jones
Garrison Keillor
Kevin Kline
Lindsay Lohan
Virginia Madsen
John C. Reilly
Maya Rudolph
Lily Tomlin
L.Q. Jones
Sue Scott
Tim Russell

1999 - Lifetime Achievement Award Gracie Allen Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2005 Won Gracie Outstanding Female Lead in a Drama Special
for: "Angels in America" (2003)

Hasty Pudding Theatricals, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1980 - Woman of the Year Irish Film and Television Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1999 Nominated IFTA Award Best Actor in a Female Role
for: Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1986 Won KCFCC Award Best Actress
for: Out of Africa (1985)

1984 Won KCFCC Award Best Actress
for: Silkwood (1983)

1983 Won KCFCC Award Best Actress
for: Sophie's Choice (1982)
Tied with Julie Andrews for Victor Victoria (1982).
1980 Won KCFCC Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

L.A. Outfest YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2003 Won Screen Idol Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
for: The Hours (2002)

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2003 Nominated Sierra Award Best Supporting Actress
for: The Hours (2002)

London Critics Circle Film Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won ALFS Award Actress of the Year
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

2004 Nominated ALFS Award Actress of the Year
for: Adaptation. (2002)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1985 Won LAFCA Award Best Actress
for: Out of Africa (1985)

1982 Won LAFCA Award Best Actress
for: Sophie's Choice (1982)

1981 Won LAFCA Award Best Actress
for: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

1979 Won LAFCA Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Also for Manhattan (1979) and The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979).
MTV Movie Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Villain
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Moscow International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2004 - Stanislavsky Prize National Board of Review, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1982 Won NBR Award Best Actress
for: Sophie's Choice (1982)

1979 Won NBR Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Manhattan (1979)
Also for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979).
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won NSFC Award Best Supporting Actress
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Also for A Prairie Home Companion (2006).
1983 Won NSFC Award Best Actress
for: Sophie's Choice (1982)

1980 Won NSFC Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Also for Manhattan (1979) and The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979).
1979 Won NSFC Award Best Supporting Actress
for: The Deer Hunter (1978)

New York Film Critics Circle Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1988 Won NYFCC Award Best Actress
for: Evil Angels (1988)

1982 Won NYFCC Award Best Actress
for: Sophie's Choice (1982)

1979 Won NYFCC Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Also for The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979).
Online Film Critics Society Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Nominated OFCS Award Best Actress
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

2003 Nominated OFCS Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Adaptation. (2002)

People's Choice Awards, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1990 Won People's Choice Award Favorite Motion Picture Actress

World-Favorite Motion Picture Actress

1989 Won People's Choice Award Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture Actress

1987 Won People's Choice Award Favorite Motion Picture Actress

1986 Won People's Choice Award Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer

Favorite Motion Picture Actress

1985 Won People's Choice Award Favorite Motion Picture Actress

1984 Won People's Choice Award Favorite Motion Picture Actress

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2003 Nominated PFCS Award Best Acting Ensemble
for: Adaptation. (2002)
Shared with:
Nicolas Cage
Chris Cooper
Brian Cox
Cara Seymour
Tilda Swinton

Best Acting Ensemble
for: The Hours (2002)
Shared with:
Toni Collette
Claire Danes
Jeff Daniels
Stephen Dillane
Ed Harris
Allison Janney
Nicole Kidman
Julianne Moore
John C. Reilly
Miranda Richardson

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for: Adaptation. (2002)

Rembrandt Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won Rembrandt Award Beste Buitenlandse Actrice
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Satellite Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2006 Won Satellite Award Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

2004 Won Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television
for: "Angels in America" (2003)

2003 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
for: The Hours (2002)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical
for: Adaptation. (2002)

1999 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
for: One True Thing (1998)

1998 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
for: ...First Do No Harm (1997) (TV)

Screen Actors Guild Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

2004 Won Actor Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
for: "Angels in America" (2003)

2003 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture
for: Adaptation. (2002)
Shared with:
Nicolas Cage
Chris Cooper
Brian Cox
Cara Seymour
Tilda Swinton

Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture
for: The Hours (2002)
Shared with:
Toni Collette
Claire Danes
Jeff Daniels
Stephen Dillane
Ed Harris
Allison Janney
Nicole Kidman
Julianne Moore
John C. Reilly
Miranda Richardson

2000 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
for: Music of the Heart (1999)

1999 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
for: One True Thing (1998)

1997 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Cast
for: Marvin's Room (1996)
Shared with:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Diane Keaton
Robert De Niro
Hume Cronyn
Gwen Verdon
Hal Scardino
Dan Hedaya

1996 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
for: The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

1995 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
for: The River Wild (1994)

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2002 Won SEFCA Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Adaptation. (2002)

Teen Choice Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2006 Nominated Teen Choice Award Movies - Choice Chemistry
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Shared with:
Anne Hathaway

Movies - Choice Sleazebag
for: The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Valladolid International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1986 Won Best Actress
for: Heartburn (1986)

Walk of Fame YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1998 - Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture
At 7020 Hollywood Blvd.
Women in Film Crystal Awards YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 1998 Won Crystal Award
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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, and her screen debut came in 1977's made-for-television movie, The Deadliest Season. Streep made her film debut in Julia (1977), opposite Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave.

Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter, with Robert De Niro, and Kramer vs. Kramer, with Dustin Hoffman, the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win. Streep's work has earned her two Academy Awards, a Cannes award, six Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG), four Grammy Award nominations, two Emmy Awards, a BAFTA award, and a Tony Award nomination. She has received 14 Academy Award nominations, more than any other actor or actress in the history of the awards, and is tied with Jack Nicholson for most Golden Globe Award wins, with six each. She has been nominated 21 times for a Golden Globe, second only to Jack Lemmon, who had 22. Streep is widely considered to be one of the most respected and talented film actors of her time.[1][2] She is also one of the few actors to have won all four major screen acting awards (Oscars, Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA awards).
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