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Welcome to simplystreep.com, an information source
on the American actress Meryl Streep, best known from her Oscar-winning performances in
"Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Sophie's Choice". Her work on
screen, stage and television, a career that includes some of the most acclaimed films of the
last 30 years, has achieved critical acclaim and earned her the business' most prestigious
awards. This unofficial website provides a base for fans which is regularly updated with all essential
news on Meryl's work, an active message board plus extensive archives, media and more.
Enjoy your stay! |
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| UPDATES ARCHIVE | APRIL 2007 |
MERYL RECEIVES DRAMA DESK AWARD NOMINATION
Posted: 2007-04-29 | Source: Webmaster |
Yet another stage award nomination for Meryl's performance in "Mother Courage". This
time she has received as Outstanding Actress in a Play Nomination for the Drama Desk Award, she shares this
category with Eve Best (A Moon for the Misbegotten), Orlagh Cassidy (The Field),
Blythe Danner (Suddenly Last Summer), Jennifer Mudge (Dutchman), Sandra Oh (Satellites)
and Annie Parisse (The Internationalist). A list with all nominees can be found
here. Thanks to Frank for the heads-up. |
TALKSHOW VIDEOS
Posted: 2007-04-29 | Source: Webmaster |
Here comes the last batch of talkshow videos, including re-uploads of her full appearances
on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Oprah" (both 1998, promoting "One True Thing").
New to the site is her appearance on "Film 2004 with Jonathan Ross", promoting "The
Manchurian Candidate". |
"DARK MATTER" DELAYED OVER SCHOOL SHOOTING PLOT
Posted: 2007-04-26 | Source: Webmaster |
Article courtesy The Times Online: Two Hollywood productions face being shelved
indefinitely because their stories so grimly echo last week’s massacre on a
university campus. Distributors are refusing to touch the films Dark Matter, starring
Meryl Streep, which is about an alienated Asian student who shoots fellow students
and professors, or The Killer Within, about an American student who goes on a similar
rampage. They are wary of taking on films which bear striking parallels to the case
of Cho Seung Hui, the Asian student who this month killed 32 students and professors
at the Virginia Tech campus before turning his gun on himself in the worst single gun
massacre in modern American history. One British distributor, who declined to be named,
said: “These films are too close to the knuckle.” Dark Matter, in which Streep plays
a university patron who tries to befriend the troubled student, took its inspiration
from a 1991 tragedy in which a Chinese physics student opened fire in two buildings
on the University of Iowa campus. He killed 6 people including a student and
professors. Read the full article
here. |
MERYL RECEIVES DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD NOMINATION
Posted: 2007-04-26 | Source: Webmaster |
Meryl Streep's performance in "Mother Courage" has earned her a nomination for the
Drama League's Performance Award. The award will be handed out on May 11, 2007. A list
with all nominees can be found
here. |
VIDEO UPDATES
Posted: 2007-04-25 | Source: Webmaster |
Added 10 video clips from award shows - her slip of tongue at the BAFTAs in 2003, her
appearances at the 2004 Moscow Film Festival and 2006 Coolidge Awards. Further, a couple
of tv reports, backstage interviews from the 2004 Emmy Awards and promotional
interview videos for "The Manchurian Candidate". Enjoy the clips  |
MERYL STREEP AND PHILIP SEYMOR HOFFMAN HAVE "DOUBT"
Posted: 2007-04-22 | Source: Webmaster |
According to Variety, Oscar-winners Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in "Doubt,"
the screen adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley play for Miramax Films that begins
production in New York on Dec. 1. Shanley wrote the script and will direct. Scott
Rudin is producing. Deals are being negotiated with both thesps. "Doubt" takes place
in a Bronx Catholic School in 1964, where the principal (Streep), a nun who's a
strict disciplinarian, makes pedophile accusations against a popular priest
(Hoffman). Still to be cast is a young nun caught between them. "Doubt" won both the
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, and is on tour. |
"DARK MATTER" MESSAGE PAINFULLY SHARPENED BY VIRGINIA TECH TRAGEDY
Posted: 2007-04-22 | Source: Webmaster |
Article courtesy the Los Angeles Times: One of the most jolting moments at this year's
Sundance Film Festival came in the closing sequence of a movie called "Dark Matter":
A disaffected Asian college student abruptly snaps and goes on a bloody rampage,
killing professors, classmates and, finally, himself. The audience was plainly
shocked, and some critics attacked the finale as a jarring gimmick that, narratively,
came out of nowhere. "Dark Matter" now, of course, would take on a different context
to anyone who sees it following the Virginia Tech shootings on Monday that left 33
people dead, among them Seung-hui Cho, the gunman who took his own life and shares
much in common with the character at the center of "Dark Matter." The film, starring
Aidan Quinn and Meryl Streep, was actually inspired by another grisly campus crime:
The 1991 University of Iowa incident in which Chinese foreign exchange student Gang
Lu reacted violently after being passed over for an academic prize and killed five
people and left a sixth paralyzed before killing himself. At the close of Sundance,
film distributors seemed unsure what to do with such a bleak film, and it was
uncertain whether it would be released theatrically or go straight to DVD. Now the
film is getting interest again as a theatrical release. Read the full article
here.
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"EVENING" TO PREMIERE AT NEWPORT FILM FESTIVAL
Posted: 2007-04-22 | Source: Webmaster |
The movie "Evening" filmed in Rhode Island, largely in Newport, will be among the
highlights of the 10th Newport International Film Festival in June. Steven Feinberg,
executive director of the state TV and Film Office, said most of the cast will be on
hand for what he is calling a "premiere" on Saturday, June 9. The cast includes Meryl
Streep, Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Colette and Hugh Dancy. Read the full
article at the Newport Daily News.
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"EVENING" TRAILER ONLINE
Posted: 2007-04-19 | Source: Webmaster |
Focus Features has finally launched the theatrical trailer for "Evening", featuring lots of scenes
with Meryl :-) You can download the trailer below or watch some caps from it. Many thanks
to Nick for the heads-up! There's also a new production
still from the film with Meryl hugging Toni Collette |
STREEP WARMS UP FOR "MAMMA"
Posted: 2007-04-19 | Source: Webmaster |
According to Variety,
Meryl Streep and her new sidekick, Christine Baranski, are in London to pre-record
their musical numbers for the coming movie of "Mamma Mia!" They'll be singing along
with Britain's Julie Walters, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan. Streep and Baranski
will then come back to the U.S. for a month off. "Actually," Christine says, "I'll be
killing myself with dance classes." Then back to London for 10 weeks of filming and
on to another five weeks on some exotic Greek island. |
JENNIFER ANISTON TALKS MERYL MOVIE PROJECT
Posted: 2007-04-18 | Source: Webmaster |
Looks like April is the big month of movie rumors and announcements. So after drop-outs and
casting news , Jennifer Aniston has now mentioned in an interview with " Extra " how excited
she is about
working with Meryl Streep. Both actresses have been mentioned half a year
ago to star in a movie named "Wanted". The interview gives no insight on when the film
is sheduled to start filming or if it's even officially in the making already, but at
least it seems to be still on the radar. Click the image to watch the video interview
on Extra's website. Here's her quote: 'The actress also broke this news to Extra:
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her next big screen role she’ll star opposite the ever-talented Meryl Streep. "I
don’t know if you ever get over that; it’s Meryl Streep for crying out loud," Jen
admitted."
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FIRTH AMONG THE CROONERS FOR "MAMMA"
Posted: 2007-04-17 | Source: Webmaster |
According to Reuters, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard and Christine Baranski are
joining the feature lineup of "Mamma Mia!" The trio join Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan
and Amanda Seyfried in the popular ABBA musical, which shoots from June-October in
London and Greece. Firth is one of the three possible fathers, a British businessman.
Skarsgard plays another possible dad. Baranski portrays a plastic surgery-loving party
girl in her 40s who is bossy and boozy. |
MORE CASTING NEWS, PROJECT RUMORS AND LINCOLN CENTER PICTURE
Posted: 2007-04-16 | Source: Webmaster |
On the heels of the "Last Station" drop-out (read below), more news on possible projects
and dropouts have been reported today, all a nice sign that not every project in which
Meryl is announced to star is really official ;-) So here we go, Variety
reports that Meryl is "attached" to "Ann's List", a Sony production about a mother
whose daughter died in the 9/11 attacks. The mother discovers her daughter's list of
things she would like to do and decides to do them for her.
Then, as it was reported
some months ago that Meryl was in talks to star as the late Iranian artist
Mokarrameh Qanbari. Now, Fox Film executives announced that the appearance of Meryl Streep in
the upcoming film production is uncertain, the Persian service of CHN reported on
Sunday. The Fox Film Corporation had purchased the rights to make a biographical film
about Qanbari and had wanted to shoot some of the scenes on location in her home
village of Darikandeh, near Babol in northern Iran. According to Qanbari's son, the
screenplay has now been completed, but it is unclear whether Streep will be taking
part in the movie. Ali Bolboli observed that a French actress will probably replace
Streep in the film. "I have been following the case for several months with Streep's
planning managers, but since her acting schedule is already full, it is uncertain if
she will be able to take part. We are still waiting to see her name in the list.
And last but not least, this one is for granted and official - a wonderful b/w picture
of Diane Keaton and Meryl at the Lincoln Center Honors, shot by Brigitte Lacombe. |
"THE LAST STATION" WITHOUT HOPKINS AND STREEP?
Posted: 2007-04-15 | Source: Webmaster |
According to this interview with Anthony Hopkins, promoting
his latest feature "Fracture", the announced Tolstoy biopic "The Last Station" with him and Meryl Streep in the leads, has lost
its stars.
Q: Are you going to play Tolstoy?
A: No, that all fell through. I don't know what happened to that. They postponed and
it was going and then I said, "Look, I've got to get on with my life." I think Meryl
Streep was going to do it and I think she pulled out of it basically because it was
on and then it was off. |
VIDEO INTERVIEWS & AND SITE AWARD :-)
Posted: 2007-04-13 | Source: Webmaster |
The Video Archive has been updated with 10 interview clips in which Meryl promotes
"The Devil Wears Prada", "A Prairie Home Companion", "Lemony Snicket", "The Hours",
"One True Thing", "Marvin's Room", "The River Wild", "Death Becomes Her", "Postcards"
and "A Cry in the Dark".
Also, Simply Streep has been chosen as Site of the Month over at
HughDancy.info, a fansite on her co-star in the upcoming
"Evening", Hugh Dancy. Here's what the webmaster, Anna, has written: "Great design, regularly updated, packed with content. The site has it all -
as it should for an actress like Meryl, one of the actresses in Hugh's upcoming film
Evening. If you're a fan, you'll find everything you need to over the course of her
long and impressive career. The owner of this site has more than outdone himself and
the hard work shows. Good job!" Thanks again for the nice words, Anna!
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MERYL MENTIONED TO ATTEND LINCOLN CENTER HONORING DIANE KEATON
Posted: 2007-04-10 | Source: Webmaster |
According to Liz Smith's column on
Variety, Meryl could be among tonight's guests at the Lincoln Center honoring
Diane Keaton: Monday night when the Film Society of Lincoln Center honors the delightful
Oscar-winner Diane Keaton. Already Bette Midler, Woody Allen, Steve Martin, Sarah
Jessica Parker, Meryl Streep, Martin Short, Carol Kane, Lisa Kudrow, Jeff Daniels,
Maya Lin plan to be there. Me, too. It will be interesting to see if Woody stays on
for dinner after. I have never seen Woody sit down for dinner in a large public
gathering, ever... |
WALTERS AND COOPER CONFIRMED FOR "MAMMA MIA"
Posted: 2007-04-10 | Source: Webmaster |
According to this site, actors Julie Walters and Dominic Cooper
have been confirmed to co-star as Rosie and Sky in "Mamma Mia". Thanks to Bogi @ the forums
for the heads-up! |
MAGAZINE SCANS 1981-1990
Posted: 2007-04-05 | Source: Webmaster |
Added 10 magazine covers and stories ranging from 1981 to 1990 to the
Image Library. Many thanks as always to the great Alvaro for the mags! Have fun
reading
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FIRST "EVENING" PICTURE
Posted: 2007-04-02 | Source: Webmaster |
Here comes the first picture of Meryl in character in "Evening" (alongside Toni Collette) with many thanks to
Bartholomew for sending it in. Click below to see it in full size. To learn more about the film,
please visit it's detail page: EVENING | |
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