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! UPDATES ARCHIVE | OCTOBER 2007 "LIONS FOR LAMBS" CLIPS, INTERVIEW, BEHIND THE SCENES Posted: 2007-10-29 | Source: Webmaster Here comes a big update with "Lions for Lambs" related videos. Added three scenes from the film (one is re-added), a full-length interview with Meryl talking about her character and making the film as well as a clip with behind-the-scenes footage. MERYL TO VISIT "THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN" Posted: 2007-10-25 | Source: Webmaster Meryl Streep will be a guest on "The Late Show with David Letterman" on November 05, 2007, to promote "Lions for Lambs". For a full guide of airdates, please check the show's full schedule. This will be Meryl's third visit to Letterman after promoting "Music of the Heart" in 1999 and "The Devil Wears Prada" in 2006. THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN Airs November 05, 2007 on CBS | Official Website WHITNEY GALA HONORING CHUCK CLOSE AND "LIONS FOR LAMBS" CLIP Posted: 2007-10-23 | Source: Webmaster Unfortunately, Meryl did not attend the world-premiere of "Lions for Lambs" in London, so its questionable if she'll be a part of the European promotion in Rome and Berlin later this week. Yesterday, she attended the Whitney Gala in honor of her friend Chuck Close. Pictures can be found in the Image Library. Also added is a new clip from "Lions for Lambs" for your downloading pleasure :-) STREEP AND CRUISE - IN LIKE LIONS, OUT LIKE..? Posted: 2007-10-23 | Source: Webmaster In the wake of Rendition's less than impressive opening tally last weekend - number 9 with $4.2 million in box office in a fairly anemic field--Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's United Artists studio start-up is surely looking carefully at how they position their political drama, Lions For Lambs, for its November 9 release date. It says something that the always crowd-accessible Cruise was even more so, spending over two hours pressing the flesh and doing media chats (print interviews: zero) before last night's London premiere. One would have thought the cumulative star power in Rendition--Jake Gyllenhaal as the muddled CI.A. agent, Reese Witherspoon as the pregnant wife of an Egyptian-born businessman who's snatched by a government squad, and Meryl Streep as the U.S. director of intelligence, with a wickedly cornpone accent - might have added up to more ticket buyers than that the film's $12-million take last weekend. A Wall Street Journal analysis split the blame between a surfeit of intelligent Oscar-style pictures and a general misery fatigue in the audience: A glut of serious-minded Oscar contenders is crowding theaters with disastrous box-office results. The latest, most pronounced casualty, "Things We Lost in the Fire," a Paramount/Dreamworks project loaded with Academy Award honorees, combusted in its initial 1,142-theater rollout, earning just $1.6 million. The film was predicted to make twice that amount... Read the full article here. "LIONS FOR LAMBS" PRESS CONFERENCE Posted: 2007-10-22 | Source: Webmaster Added pictures of Meryl at the "Lions for Lambs" press conference on October 19. The film world-premieres today at the London Film Festival and later at the Rome Film Festival, so in case Meryl is in attendance, be sure to check back later for more pictures. Also, Entertainment Tonight will follow the European promotion for "Lions for Lambs" throughout the week. In a first interview glimpse, Tom Cruise was full of praise for his co-star: "It was an absolute joy working with Meryl. I remember saying, 'I really can't wait to work with you.' " And Meryl? "She said, 'I hope you're not disappointed!" "RENDITION" CLIP AND TELEVISION SPOTS Posted: 2007-10-19 | Source: Webmaster Added a new clip from "Rendition", featuring a phone conversation between the characters of Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep, as well as four promotional television spots for the film, to the video archive. "LIONS FOR LAMBS" CLIP AND NEW STILLS Posted: 2007-10-19 | Source: Webmaster Here's a first clip from "Lions for Lambs" posted at movies.com as well as three new production stills, added to the Image Library. "Lions" is going to make festival rounds before its US release on November 9, 2007. It'll be shown at the London Film Festival on October 22 (next Monday) and the Rome Film Festival a day later, so lets hope Meryl pays a visit overseas to promote the film. Until then, check the images below to access all new files. THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART Posted: 2007-10-17 | Source: Webmaster Many thanks to the great Mycah for sending in Meryl's appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She attended the show yesterday to promote "Rendition" and mentioned "Lions for Lambs" and "Mamma Mia" in a very funny interview (it's not just talent, it's also hotness ;-) The full clip can be downloaded in the video archive. Also, the Image Library has been updated with over 80 HQ screencaps from the show. With this addition, the library now features 15.000 photos! Enjoy the clips and captures :-) PICTURES UPDATE Posted: 2007-10-16 | Source: Webmaster Many albums in the Library have been updated or re-added. Here's an overview of what's new. First, screencaps of award shows that Meryl has attended through the years, mostly from the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, dating back to 1982. Also, lots of re-additions of Meryl's television appearances in the early ninetees at benefit functions or specials such as the "Voices that Care" recording to support the Gulf troops, her spot with Kevin Costner in "The Earth Day Special", the benefit concert for "Mothers and Others" alongside Cher and Goldie Hawn as well as "Race to Save the Planet" and, more recent, Garrison Keillor's Indpendence Day Special from June 2006. Then, there are now pictures from most of Meryl's stage appearances, ranging from her early work at the Yale Drama School to her celebrated performance of Mother Courage at Shakespeare in the Park last year and featuring many exlusive scans from productions such as "Happy End", "Taken in Marriage" and "Measure for Measure". Highlights of the theater galleries are newly-added screencaps from "Alice at the Palace", "Secret Service" as well as "Kiss me Petruchio" (The Taming of the Shrew) and its documentary which aired back when the play was broadcast on television in 1978. LINCOLN CENTER TO HONOR MERYL STREEP Posted: 2007-10-15 | Source: Webmaster Meryl Streep will be honored at the 35th annual Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute on April 14. It's the latest feather in the cap for an actress with the most Academy Award nominations in history. The ceremony will feature film clips from her more than 30-year film career along with presentations by many of her co-stars and directors. The event will be directed and edited by FSLC Gala Tribute director Wendy Keys and Gala Tribute producer Tony Impavido. The tribute is held each spring at New York's Avery Fisher Hall. Thanks to Frank for the heads-up. MERYL TO VISIT "THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART" Posted: 2007-10-13 | Source: Webmaster Meryl Streep will be a guest on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on October 16, 2007, to promote "Rendition". For a full guide of airdates, please check the show's full schedule. THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART Airs October 16, 2007 on Comedy Central | Official Website TWO SIDES OF A STORY: THE MAKING OF "RENDITION" Posted: 2007-10-12 | Source: Webmaster "Two Sides of a Story: The Making of Rendition" is a 12-minutes documentary on the film, featuring interviews with the director Gavin Hood and its stars, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep and including lots of behind-the-scenes footage. The full documentary can be downloaded in the video archive, caps of Meryl's interview are in the Image Library. MERYL TALKS RENDITION, GYLLENHAAL AND MAMMA MIA Posted: 2007-10-12 | Source: Webmaster Taken from an article in USA Today on the Los Angeles premiere of "Rendition": Because of the various locales, much of the cast did not even meet during the shoot, though they shared other connections. “This is increasingly the way it is with complicated interwoven plotlines,” said Meryl Streep, whose ice-cold politician never crosses paths with Gyllenhaal. But Streep has her own personal memories of Jake as a boy. “He was a friend of my son (Henry) in grammar school and would come over to my house to play. I remember... his sister, Maggie, was having a ’20s speakeasy party, and the boys were bartenders." Streep did offer some news on her 2008 Mamma Mia! film. “Shooting Dancing Queen was probably the most fun,” she said, promising, “It’ll take your head off.” "RENDITION" PREMIERE LOS ANGELES Posted: 2007-10-10 | Source: Webmaster Meryl has attended the Los Angeles premiere of "Rendition" yesterday, accompanied by her husband and sharing the red carpet with her co-stars Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Alan Arkin. Over 60 images from the premiere have been added to the Image Library. 2003 APPEARANCES PICTURES Posted: 2007-10-08 | Source: Webmaster Added albums with all public appearances from 2003, a year often cited as Meryl's comeback year. After taking a break from films for three years she was brought back to the spotlight with her performances in "The Hours" and "Adaptation", the latter winning her a Golden Globe - (the fourth of her career and the first since 1983) as well as an Academy Award nomination, breaking the record for most nominations by any actor with 13 nods. Also, she was honored with the French César Award and promoted the highly acclaimed "Angels in America", released in late 2003. Pictures from these and many more events can be found in the Image Library. TIMES ONLINE: MERYL STREEP TALKS POLITICS AND PASSION Posted: 2007-10-06 | Source: Webmaster Article courtesy the Times Online: Here’s a cinema parlour game: what voice or character will Meryl Streep adopt next? A crackle of anticipation attends each of the actress’s transformations. Lately, Streep seems drawn to playing bad, from the withering fashion dominatrix in The Devil Wears Prada to the Machiavellian politician overseeing the covert torture of terrorist suspects in Rendition, released on October 19. But the face is never fixed. In Lions for Lambs, the festival’s Times Gala film (and world premiere), she is a compromised journalist, and she is also donning bell-bottoms and glittery platforms in the movie of Mamma Mia!opposite Pierce Brosnan. “I’ll be singing, not lip-synching,” this master chameleon assures us. The full article can be read at The Times Online or in the press archive. Also, many thanks to Riikka for making Simply Streep her Site of the Month October at the wonderful Glamour Reese Witherspoon. Here's the lovely text she has written: "Simply Streep is, undoubtedly, the ultimate online resource dedicated to Reese's Rendition co-star and living legend Meryl Streep. Like Ms. Streep herself, this site is unlike any other. Features include an extensive biography, information on Meryl's many movies, press archive, a lot of multimedia and much more! A must see!" "RENDITION" AND "LIONS FOR LAMBS" CLIPS & STILLS Posted: 2007-10-03 | Source: Webmaster Just in time to promote "Rendition", which opens US theaters on October 19, here are two television spots for the film as well a scene featuring Meryl, Reese Witherspoon and Alan Arkin. Click the image below to download all new videos. Additionally, there also many new production stills and on-set pictures from both "Rendition" and "Lions for Lambs".