Meryl Streep

Bill Clinton Dream Casts His Biopic

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 06.01.2012

When it comes to dream casting his own biopic, Bill Clinton has his sights set on Hollywood's elite. On Thursday night's "Piers Morgan Tonight," t...

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Wisdom From Famous Women's Commencement Speeches

TresSugar | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Graduation, Michelle Obama, Commencement Speeches, Toni Morrison, Oprah, Meryl Streep, Katie Couric, Hillary Clinton, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Women News

Commencement speeches typically include thoughtful advice - but when famous, intelligent women are standing at the podium, those clever and creative i...

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More 'Devil Wears Prada' On The Way

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 05.31.2012

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Ten years after taking readers into the cutthroat world of fashion media, The Devil Wears Prada is getting a sequel. EW.com exclusively reports author...

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Unique Charity Auctions Support Human Rights Worldwide

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Meryl Streep, Aminatou Haidar, Bill Clinton, Top Chef, John McEnroe, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Frank Mugisha, Abel Berrera, Mad Men, Barack Obama, President Clinton, Charity, Impact News

It's an honor to spread the word that between now and May 17, more than one hundred leaders in politics, media, Hollywood, and sports are teaming up a...

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Meryl Streep-Backed Museum Project In Jeopardy

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 05.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Support from donors and elected officials for a National Women's History Museum appears to have evaporated after a recent Huffington Pos...

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The Pride of Being the Only One in Hollywood Without a Nose Job: Barbra Streisand

Franca Sozzani | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Gisele Bundchen, Meryl Streep, Hollywood Plastic Surgery, Women Plastic Surgery, Italy Plastic Surgery, Barbra Streisand, Italian Women Plastic Surgery, Barbra Streisand Nose, Hollywood Beauty, Style News

Many cult movies, two Academy Awards and famous all over the world, Barbra Streisand never had a nose job and she is proud of that -- and rightly so. A cute button nose profile wouldn't have enhanced her natural personality.

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There Are No More Movie Stars (Or Why We Must Change Conventional Thinking About Making Movies

Peter Paige | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Reality TV, Hollywood Actors, The Artist, Bridesmaids, Actors, Movie Making, Filmmaking, Documentary Filmmaking, Jennifer Aniston, Meryl Streep, Film Industry, The Kardashians, Real Housewives, Celebrity, Kim Kardashian, Celebrities, Movie Stars, Los Angeles News

There are no more movie stars. I blame TMZ and its reality show brethren, who have taken all the mystery out of celebrity. In movie-making, like pretty much every other business, the paradigm has changed, and we must respond accordingly.

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Movie Review: To the Arctic

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, To the Arctic, Climate Change, Meryl Streep, Manmade Climate Change, Polar Ice Cap, To the Arctic Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Imax, Entertainment News

To the Arctic, like the cable series Frozen Planet, provides a precious historical record. At some point in the future, films like this will provide the only visual record of polar bears, caribou and other Arctic fauna that will eventually disappear.

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DVDs: War Horse Stumbles

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Bluray, Dvds, Margaret Thatcher, Cameron Crowe, Steven Spielberg, Hbo, Meryl Streep, War Horse, War Horse Movie, War Horse Review, Entertainment News

War Horse is based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, a solid young adult novel with classic status in the UK. It was turned into a brilliant bit of theater (really, you should see it if at all possible). But Spielberg's film fails on every level.

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Romeo And Juliet For The Baby Boomer Set

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 04.17.2012

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NEW YORK -- Kevin Kline will play Romeo opposite Meryl Streep's Juliet for a one-night-only staged reading of Shakespeare's play in Central Park. The...

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California Love

D. R. Tucker | Posted 04.16.2012

I don't remember watching The Earth Day Special when it was first broadcast by ABC in April 1990. Perhaps if I had watched it 22 years ago, I would have avoided falling for the right's denialist trap.

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Women's Museum, Under Scrutiny, Seeks Ph.D.

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Video, Joan Bradley Wages, Women's History, Meryl Streep, Museums, Nonprofits, National Women's History Museum, Women's Museums, Dc Museums, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Better late than never. Days after a Huffington Post investigation revealed a host of problems at the nascent National Women's Histor...

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PHOTO: Penelope Cruz On The Cover Of Harper’s Bazaar

Lee Hernandez | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Cultura, Penelope Cruz, Leo, Meryl Streep, Javier Bardem, Woody Allen, Motherhood, Slidepollajax, Harper's Bazzar, Latino Voices News

Penelope Cruz looks radiant on the May 2012 cover of Harper’s Bazaar! The Oscar-winning Spanish actress, who poses for the cover in Armani Privé...

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'Web Therapy' and 'The Real L Word' Get Premiere Dates

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Television, Video, David Schwimmer, The Real L Word, Meryl Streep, Web Therapy Showtime, Showtime, Showtime Premiere Dates, Lisa Kudrow, Web Therapy, The Real L Word Showtime, TV News

Showtime is revving up for a sizzling summer: The network has just announced the July premiere dates for "Web Therapy" (July 2 at 11 p.m. ET) and "The...

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Blight At The Museum: Why Washington Still Has No Women's History Museum

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.13.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sixteen years ago, a small band of women working on Capitol Hill launched a campaign to "Free the Sisters of the Crypt" and raised $85,0...

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Celebrities Stumble: Watch Stars Fall Victim To Gravity

Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Paris Hilton, Rihanna, Lindsay Lohan, Val Kilmer, Scarlett Johansson, Celebrities Trip, Kelly Preston, Matt Damon, Liz Hurley, Jersey Shore, Video, Meryl Streep, Lauren Conrad, Stars Tripping, Celebrities Falling, Stars Falling, Eva Longoria, Celebrity News

Our fascination with seeing stars act "just like us" will likely never stop. Knowing that these beautiful people walk their dogs, go grocery shopping,...

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College-Bound in Hollywood

Nancy Berk, Ph.D. | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Steve Martin, Andrew Ferguson, The Middle, College Admissions, Will Ferrell, College, Nancy Grace, Meryl Streep, Demi Moore, Hollywood, Alec Baldwin, Movies, Modern Family, Crazy U, Parents News

Parent-child conflict and higher education anxiety is front and center in Hollywood these days.

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The Secret to Aging Well -- Not Keeping It a Secret!

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 05.28.2012

One thing that continues to surprise me is how some people seem shocked when I admit my age.

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Kate Winslet Gets Leo, Others To 'Wear Many Hats' For Autism Awareness

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Margret Ericsdottir, Video, Kate Winslet, Activism, Meryl Streep, Celebrity Activism, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, The Golden Hat Foundation, Celebrity Giving, George Clooney, Autism, A Mother's Courage, Keli Ericsdottir, Justin Timberlake, Impact News

"Titanic" fans have more to look forward to than just watching steamy scenes of Jack and Rose in 3D, because Kate Winslet is releasing something even ...

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PHOTOS: Death Of A Salesman Opening Night On Broadway

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: NY Around Town, Broadway, Andrew Garfield, Party Photos, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Arthur Miller, Meryl Streep, Death of a Salesman, New York News

In one of the most highly anticipated Broadway revivals to date, director Mike Nichols takes on Arthur Miller's classic American play, "Death of a Sal...

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Meryl Streep Joins Channing Tatum For Most Random Concert Ever

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Sting, Video, Meryl Streep Carnegie Hall, Revlon Concert for the Rainforest Fund, Channing Tatum Carnegie Hall, Meryl Streep, Channing Tatum, Slidewide, Carnegie Hall, Entertainment News

Meryl Streep and Channing Tatum will join Sting and his wife Trudie Styler’s biennial Rainforest Foundation concert at Carnegie Hall. Streep -- ...

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Will Meryl Streep Play Hilary Clinton?

AP | By JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 03.13.2012

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NEW YORK -- Meryl Streep is fresh off her Oscar win for playing Margaret Thatcher. But she had an entire theater at Lincoln Center wondering if an eve...

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Is Embracing Your Age the Modern Thing to Do?

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Turning 50, Aging Gracefully, Fifty, Life After 50, Ellen Degeneres, The Best of Everything After 50, Huff/post50, Women Over 50, Diane Keaton, Aging in America, Fifty News, Plastic Surgery, Meryl Streep, Fifty News

The more she talked, the more confident I felt that my version of post-50 life would be the future of aging in America: embracing your age, laugh lines and all.

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Help Meryl Streep (and Other Iron Ladies) Teach Rush Limbaugh a Lesson

Keli Goff | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Sandra Fluke, Women's History Month, National Women's History Museum, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh Slut, Meryl Streep, Women's History, Meryl Streep National Women's History Museum, Women News

March happens to be Women's History Month. While we all know that for the next month we can look forward to occasional references to our country's greatest women, you may not know that we still don't have a national museum to honor the contributions of women.

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Oscars and the War Against the Aging

Warren Adler | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: The Artist, Aarp, Alessandra Stanley, Christopher Plummer, Oscars, Television, Academy Awards, Movie News, Meryl Streep, Media News

For us decrepit folks over 55, the age of AARP eligibility, we have endured the long reign of movies pointed primarily to kiddies, teenagers, and dating couples and a starvation diet of films addressed to mature audiences.

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