Article courtesy USA Today: Of Meryl Streep’s abundance of gifts, one stands out in particular: the ability to laugh at herself. Her left hand is bandaged after an avocado-peeling accident that severed nerves and requires physical therapy. She still can’t believe her kitchen debacle, the confluence of foolhardiness and the wrong knife. “From now on, I’m changing everything. I learn something every day. I do. Six months to a year, it will take to heal,” Streep says ruefully. “I shouldn’t cross against the light, and that’s when you get hit by the bike coming the wrong way. You know it. And you think, how can you tell your children anything when you’re the idiot?”

That’s not the word anyone would use to describe her. Streep is one of the most respected, revered actresses working today, and she won an Oscar, her third, this year for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Yet Streep, effusive, funny and warm, sounds like a giddy drama school graduate when she talks about her day job. “Oh, my God. I can’t believe they’re still letting me do this!” The complete article can be read here.

Meryl has attended the “Hope Springs” premiere in New York, yesterday, alongside director David Frankel and co-stars Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell. Pictures from the premiere can be found in the image library. Edit: Hundreds of additional pictures from the premiere have been added.

Also yesterday, Meryl and Tommy participated in a press junket in New York to promote “Hope Springs”. I’m sure this will serve for new television interviews these next day. The New York premiere of “Hope Springs” takes place this evening.

As reported, Meryl attended yesterday’s “Apple Store SoHo: Meet the Filmmakers” panel on “Hope Springs”, alongside co-stars Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, and director David Frankel. Pictures from the panel have been added to the image library (audio will be posted as it becomes available), and additional information from the event can be found below.

According to the Daily Mail, there is an old saying among luvvies that ‘the show must go on.’ And Meryl Streep obviously took heed, as she laughed off the pain of an injured hand to appear on a panel in New York to promote her latest film. Meryl, 63, turned up for the special event at the Soho Apple shop to promote the comedy drama with a white bandage over her hand, wrist and little finger. While cutting through an avocado the Iron Lady actress sliced open her hand, doing quite quite a bit of damage. A local doctor in Connecticut sewed it up, but then Streep headed back into New York for hand surgery. She told Showbiz 411: ‘They gave me an even bigger bandage, and of course I took it right off when I got home. ‘But now, I think I’ll put it back on.’ And despite the fact she is one of the most decorated actresses in history, she humbly revealed she was in awe of her co-star Tommy Lee Jones. She said: ‘Can you believe I waited so long to work with him? ‘He’s the go to guy on set. Everyone loves him. The complete article can be read Daily Mail.

Some 30 additional pictures from this week’s “Hope Springs” press conference in Beverly Hills have been added to the image library.

The AARP Magazine’s website has published a slideshow and Meryl with the leading men throughout her career, including a very cool new promotional picture with Tommy Lee Jones from the current (or rather upcoming) “Hope Springs” promotion. “Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman. Meryl Streep has had all the big names – on screen, of course. Tommy Lee Jones is the latest. In Hope Springs, opening in August, he stars as her husband and gives us a reason to recall three decades of Meryl and her men.” You can flip through the slideshow here.

On July 16, 2012, Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones have participated in the press conference for “Hope Springs” at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Pictures can be found in the image library.

As some of you may know, Lisa Kudrow’s originally based web series “Web Therapy” is running in its second season on Showtime, and the current episodes feature Meryl as therapist Camilla Bowner. These episodes haven’t been newly filmes but are taken from the webisodes that were launched in 2010. To my own surprise, there have never been screencaptures from these episodes on Simply Streep, so here they are, also including captures from outtakes and behind the scenes.

Pictures of Meryl’s appearance at the Kent Lecture Series in Connecticut earlier this week have been added to the image library, alongside additions from her most recent appearances, including the Public Theater Anniversary Gala reading of “Romeo and Juliet”, the Women in Film Crystal Awards and the Made in N.Y. Awards. Enjoy the new pictures.

A new theatrical poster as well as a new production still for “Hope Springs” have been released and added to the image library. The film, starring Meryl and Tommy Lee Jones as a couple attending a counseling weekend to decide the fate of their marriage, releases next month. In other film news, locations for the upcoming “August: Osage County” are currently being scouted in Washington and Osage counties, according to here.