Simply Streep is your premiere online resource on Meryl Streep's work on film, television and in the theatre - a career that has won her acclaim to be one of the world's greatest living actresses, winning three Academy Awards for "Kramer vs. Kramer", "Sophie's Choice" and "The Iron Lady". Created in 1999, Simply Streep has built an extensive collection over the past 25 years to discover Miss Streep's body of work through thousands of photographs, articles and video clips. Enjoy your stay and check back soon.
July 26, 2009
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2009

New behind-the-scenes pictures from the “Julie & Julia” set have been added to the Image Library.

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2009

You can now listen to Sirius’ “Here’s Barbara” episode in which Barbara Walters interviews Meryl Streep and Nora Ephron. Many thanks to Christy for contributin this transcript!

 

 

July 25, 2009
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Article courtesy USA Today:  Ever since he asked stop-motion specialist Henry Selick to create exotic sea creatures for 2004’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson has been enamored with this painstaking process of animation.But patiently posing puppets for a brief segment was nothing compared with doing an entire feature like The Fanastic Mr. Fox, one populated with a zoo’s worth of woodland creatures. Though the voice cast includes many Anderson regulars, such as Bill Murray as a lawyer badger, there are notable newcomers. George Clooney lends Mr. Fox his matinee-idol mystique and dry humor, and Meryl Streep is his loving if suspicious wife. 

Why did the Oscar queen decide to speak for a she-mammal? As she says, “When else am I going to be Mrs. George Clooney?”

USA Today also has a couple of exclusive pictures from the film, to be found here.

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25
2009

The actress and the director recently gave the Wall Street Journal an interview that can be read in the magazines archive. Punctuating their conversation with raucous laughter, Ms. Streep and Ms. Ephron spoke about towering women – Ms. Streep wore platform shoes in the film – and facing off against fanboys at the box office. The movie “Julie & Julia” intertwines the stories of two women – Julia Child discovering her love of cooking and blogger Julie Powell cooking her way though Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” The film’s star, Meryl Streep, and its writer and director, Nora Ephron, play off their links, too. They came to know each other through their friendships with director Mike Nichols and worked together on “Silkwood” (1983) and “Heartburn” (1986). Ms. Streep shot to the top of Ms. Ephron’s casting list when they ran into each other at a Shakespeare performance in New York’s Central Park: Ms. Ephron, who is also a producer on the movie, mentioned the project and Ms. Streep warbled, “Bon Appetit!”

July 22, 2009
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22
2009

Premieres of this year’s Deauville Film Festival include Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams; Sandra Bullock vehicle The Proposal; Sundance favourite (500) Days Of Summerwith Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel; Raymond de Felitta’s City Island with Andy Garcia. Julia Migenes’ Concert will be the opening night film. This year’s edition runs September 4-13.

July 20, 2009
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2009

Added Entertainment Tonight’s exclusive new interview with Meryl Streep – as well as Stanley Tucci and Chris Messina – and two new clips from J&J to the video archive.

July 18, 2009
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2009

Even more production stills from “Julie & Julia” have been added to the Image Library, again thanks to Tina! Also, Entertainment Tonigt will be having yet another feature on Meryl this coming Monday. Enjoy the new pictures!


July 16, 2009
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2009

As reported below, Entertainment Tonight has aired a featurette on “Julie & Julia”, including scenes from the film and interviews with Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Amy Adams, Chris Messina and director Nora Ephron. The full segment can be watched in the video archive.

July 15, 2009
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15
2009

Some visitors have written me that today’s Entertainment Tonight will have a featurette on “Julie & Julia”. So if you’re able to see the show, be sure to tune in. Further, Meryl has been mentioned by sources to attend The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on July 27 to promote “Julie & Julia”. No official word yet, so fingers crossed.

July 11, 2009
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Added a new clip from “Julie & Julia” – a cooking montage – as well as three television spots to the video archive.