FLASH! FROM LIZ SMITH | 04/15/2009 1:15 pm
FLASH! Meryl Streep's Newfound Hollywood Bankability
FLASH! Here’s some good news. Meryl Streep, the woman insiders thought would be totally “ruined” by performing in “Mamma Mia!” is now talking about her next one.
Entertainment Weekly will be on the stands any second with Meryl discussing her upcoming Nora Ephron film “Julie & Julia” – a comedy about a young secretary obsessed with the cooking maven Julia Child.
Here’s Meryl, who is the queen of counter-programming and a box-office draw for female audiences ever since “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Mamma Mia!” She says, “It’s completely improbable, and no one in Hollywood can understand it! We’re so used to seeing movies about dysfunctional relationships. Here are these outsized, vivid, problematic women with great men of substance who love them in spite of all their prickliness.” Meryl goes on to discuss her newfound Hollywood bankability. She’s talking about movies that women love because they have no pyrotechnics, assaults or killing.
Meryl is joined in this interview with her co-star Amy Adams who plays a girl circa 2002 in Queens while Streep plays a woman in 1950s Paris. They join in this dual narrative about happy, supportive marriages. “So thrilling,” says Amy Adams. Every now and then, the world rediscovers that there’s a female audience. "Oh, my God! Women go to the movies!”

























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I see every film Meryl Streep is in. She’s such a class act and an amazing actor.
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Hollywood can’t understand it because Meryl is not a D-cup blonde bouncing around the screen with explosions going off around her while every says, "F YOU!". Wow, Hollywood, people want substance AND talent AND a good story!! IMAGINE THAT!?!
I swear that is one of the biggest "DUH" statements I’ve ever heard.
The best actress of our generation, bar none. …. and with a face that actually moves !
Katharine Hepburn before, Kate Winslett after.
Agreed.
Hmmm, something about that name Katharine ( Kate), Kate & Cate , which also happens to me my middle name ;-)
Meryl makes bank - is Hollywood surprised? Oh, I couldn’t tell by their expressions.
Forced to choose between botox and toxic emissions, today’s film audience will probably take a face scene over a chase scene, anyday.