Meryl Streep

Oskar Eustis is the creative director of the Public Theatre that put on Bertolt Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children in the summer of 2006, translated by Tony Kushner and starring Meryl Streep. John Walter is a director that made the film Theatre of War documenting the production of the play that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival yesterday.  read more »

The Film Society of Lincoln Center presented a gala tribute to Meryl Streep on Monday, April 14, 2008. It was the 36th such ceremony, all directed and edited by Wendy Keys, with a writing contribution on this occasion by Joanna Ney. Meryl and I have had our publicly aired differences over the years, but in this instance I must say that she and the evening were total triumphs.  read more »

For all his winning charm, Tom Cruise is despised by his Lions for Lambs co-stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, an insider told the Huffington Post. When the subject of Ms. Streep and Mr. Redford’s absence from a recent dinner honoring Mr. Cruise was raised at the event, the source reportedly spilled the beans.

“Meryl and Bob can’t stand Tom. In London, Tom kept trying to push himself into interviews. Bob said, No. Tom wouldn’t listen. Meryl has done almost nothing for the movie. She wants nothing to do with him.”

Another source, however, tried to take the stirring spoon out of the pot, saying, “That’s mean. They’re great friends. Just look at their interview on Good Morning America.”

Oh, and Nicole Kidman said that her life didn’t feel “relevant” when she was married to him. Oh, snap!

Tom’s Co-Stars Meryl Streep And Robert Redford Skip Tribute Dinner [HuffPo]

 

 

The liberal actor-director’s A-list new political drama is topical, tripartite—and honestly, somewhat tortuous.  read more »

Despite starring Tom Cruise, Robert Redford’s antiwar diatribe is totally toothless.  read more »

Meryl Streep has signed on to play jolly cooking icon Julia Child in Nora Ephron's new film Julia & Julia, based on the adaptation of the 2005 book by Julie Powell, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.

Reuters/The Hollywood Reporter writes:

The Columbia Pictures film follows Powell, a government worker who decides to cook her way through Child's classic "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in one year out of her small Brooklyn kitchen. Powell blogs her daily experiences, gaining a loyal following along the way.

This January, after 62 months, heiress Libet Johnson sold off an $18.5 million penthouse at Trump International on Central Park West, the last chunk of the 20,000-square-foot sprawl she’d once had at the building.

But it took her much less time to shake her 162-year-old, 25-foot-wide townhouse at 19 West 12th Street.  read more »

Like mother, like daughter, according to Page Six:

Meryl Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer, is headed to The Great White Way. She was overheard at The Plumm telling a pal that her play "The Autumn Garden," which she starred in over the summer in Williamstown, is coming to Broadway and she'll be in it. Gummer was at the club with her boyfriend of three months, Eric Murdoch, who was also in the play and will join her on Broadway. The two were drinking, dancing and cuddling all night.

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Move over, Meryl! Reese steals scenes from Streep in this timely political thriller about the government’s overzealous treatment of suspected terrorists.  read more »

The Film Society of Lincoln Center will salute Meryl Streep at its 35th annual gala tribute on April 14, according to Variety.

Each year since 1972, when the Film Society organized the inaugural edition of the event with a hat-tip to Charlie Chaplin it has feted a major film-industry figure with a distinguished body of work.

Held each spring at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the black-tie bash features tributes from actors, directors and other notables, a program of career highlights and a few words from the honoree.

Redgrave, Streep, Danes and Richardson navigate a choppy script co-written by Hours director Michael Cunningham.  read more »

• Libet Johnson's 1840 brownstone, which she recently bought from Meryl Streep, is on the market for $16 milion. The five-story townhouse, on West 12th Street, has eight bedrooms and a "two-tier garden." [WSJ]
• By the time May rolls around, Chelsea's High Line will be so hip that people without ironic mustaches will not be allowed up. David "Ziggy Stardust" Bowie (above) will be hosting the 10-day-long HighLine Festival, bringing hip indie stars like Daniel Johnston to the 'hood. [Brooklyn Vegan]
• The "scorched earth" left behind by bartha bartha's townhouse violence has apparently gone to contract for around $8 million. [New York]
• The Westchester/Bronx border is "sprouting new residences so fast that the breathing space between one home and the next... is already becoming a memory." Will Williamsbridge become the new Williamsburg? Probably not. [City Limits]
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A few words about the wayward production of Mother Courage and Her Children in the Park, starring Me  read more »

A few words about the wayward production of Mother Courage and Her Children in the Park, starring Me  read more »

The Devil Wears Prada is the first classy, elegant and really entertaining film of 2006.  read more »

The Devil Wears Prada is the first classy, elegant and really entertaining film of 2006.  read more »

Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion, from a screenplay by Garrison Keillor, based on a story  read more »

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In this week's paper:

Let The Transom take you deep inside the first world, where Viacom king Tom Freston does a mean downward-facing dog; where any public interest in the shooting of The Devil Wears Prada evaporates when Meryl Streep isn't on set; where Jesse Eisenberg, the young star of The Squid and the Whale is not yet glib with reporters; and also where Marc Levin's new documentary gets, or requests, the heat from the Nation of Islam.

Cool Hand Judy! As Judy Miller goes free, the vultures are circling the New York Times, says Bill Keller—and we have met the vultures and they are us. The Devil Writes Nada: million-dollar hack chick lit-er Lauren Weisberger is the luckiest gal alive. Hysterics—never the Hysterics— are the teenage prep school sophisti-kid rock band of Brooklyn. The Transom would like to adopt them all.

Jason Binn bought a really expensive apartment. Relatedly: The Transom figures that a two-million-dollar apartment is the kind of thing that really brings solace when one is wheezing on one's deathbed.  read more »

Finally, we are not unconvinced that sending George Gurley to couples therapy and publishing the transcripts is an experiment that has gone truly, horribly wrong. Seriously. The Transom is reminded of the time it totalled a Jeep Cherokee in Denver; the hood mashing ever closer, the pressure of the steering wheel in the sternum... but this car crash may be, The Transom fears, fatal.

Freedom Is Slavery!There's almost nothing in THX 1138 , George Lucas' film debut, that anticipates t  read more »

Normal service is interrupted this week by a momentous event.  read more »

If I had to choose a favorite Chekhov play, it would be The Seagull .  read more »