On Saturday, Meryl Streep was among the inductees of the 16th Annual New Jersey Hall of Fame. No winners appeared in person, all thank you messages were previously taped. Meryl’s honor was introduced by her friend and co-star Cher, reminiscing on meeting Meryl for the first time on the set of “Silkwood”:

When Mike Nichols cast me in “Silkwood”, I felt so out of my league. Meryl had already won two Academy Awards, one for “Kramer vs. Kramer” and one for “Sophie’s Choice”, and had been nominated for “The Deer Hunter” and “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”. This chick was so impressive. It’s a little bit annoying, right? Anyway, it was 1982 and I’m getting ready to go to Texas to make my first real movie with Miss Award winner Meryl Streep. In the middle of packing I got a full blown anxiety attack and started to unpack my suitcase, saying “I can’t go to Texas to make a movie with Meryl Streep.” As I unpacked, my sister Georganne was repacking and I finally made it to Dallas. I saw her from across the room. She was wearing a long white dress. Her hair was light blonde and she looked like an angel. The moment she saw me she smiled and started walking towards me. As she got closer, she put her arms around me and said, “I’m so glad you’re here”. From that moment on I wasn’t afraid anymore. […] I want to tell you exactly what you told me when we first met. I’m so glad you’re here.

Here’s Meryl’s thank you speech. The full ceremony was live streamed on Youtube and can be watched in the video archive. Screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery.

I am thrilled and honored to be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame alongside my heroes and the greats of our state. Thomas Edison and me. Me, a person whose name is in lights and the other person who invented lights. I mean, yikes. Back in high school in Bernardsville I never in my wildest dreams imagined I’d ever be here. But it is my imagination that got me here. Because all my life I’ve imagined what it’s like to be other people. People not like me, not necessarily from New Jersey, people from other countries, other centuries, even. As actors, we’re encouraged to make that leap. But I know that curiosity is something that we all have in us from birth. We all wonder what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes. Imagination. It’s how we fly up and out of our own lives into the world that we share. And it’s where empathy and understanding are born. My dreams were born in New Jersey and my imagination was nurtured in her public schools. And for that I’m very, very grateful. Thank you for this wonderful honor.

It’s a wrap for “Only Murders in the Building”‘s fourth season – with a fifth season already announced, and a slight chance that Meryl Streep’s Loretta might return. At least she’s not written out of the story completely. Screencaptures from the final episode “My Best Friend’s Wedding” have been added to the photo gallery. If you want to rewind this or any previous episodes, make sure to check out the career page, which features episode guides and in-depth information on each episode of the show. Enjoy.

Yes, you read that right! This year, Simply Streep celebrates its 25th year online. It’s certainly not what I thought about when I created it to teach myself programming websites and improve my English more than two decades ago. Yet, here we are, still celebrating the career of one of our finest actresses – and also the accomplishment of guiding Simply Streep through a quarter century on the internet. There will be a big celebration with lots of special additions later this month. I will also dedicate the next weeks in updating all archive and career pages, so there’s plenty to look forward to. In the meantime, you can read more about the site’s history here. Congratulations to us!

After six episodes with no signs of Loretta (except for a voice appearance in episode six), Meryl returned in this week’s seventh episode and more than made up for being missing in action for pretty much of season 4. Who would have thought we’d ever see her in a catfight only rivaled by “Death Becomes Her”. Screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery – with many thanks to M for sending them over – as well as production stills and on-set pictures. Fingers crossed Meryl will be part of all three remaining episodes.

CNN will air an interview of Christiane Amanpour with Meryl Streep and women’s rights in Afghanistan. Amanpour posted a teaser on social media, alongside this tagline. In Afghanistan, it’s “the erasure of an entire gender. And I don’t think it has precedent in history, even in the natural world,” Meryl Streep tells me. But the “Taliban failed to understand that Afghanistan has transformed,” adds former MP and negotiator Fawzia Koofi. “Despite being completely erased from any kind of public and social life, [women] still protest.” My full conversation with Streep, Koofi, and former governor Habiba Sarabi airs later this week”. More than three years since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban continues to tighten restrictions on women and girls. Hollywood legend and activist Meryl Streep joins the show alongside former Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi and Afghanistan’s first female governor, Habiba Sarabi, to talk about the fight for Afghan women’s rights as reported in the new documentary film “The Sharp Edge of Peace. Edit: The interview has aired on September 27 and can be now found in the video archive.

We’re having a week of unexpected appearances. After the Emmys (which was very expected due to her nomination) and a special appearance at Oprah’s special for Kamala Harris, Meryl was a guest at the UN, today. The Permanent Missions of Ireland, Indonesia, Switzerland and Qatar, in partnership with the Women’s Forum on Afghanistan, hosted a high-level event on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan. The event included remarks by UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, and featured a short version of a new documentary film, “The Sharp Edge of Peace”, on the participation of four Afghan women leaders in the Doha talks prior to the Taliban takeover. The screening, introduced by actress Meryl Streep, was followed by an interactive panel discussion including women who participated in the intra-Afghan talks in 2020 and those currently engaged on the ground in Afghanistan. It was moderated by former Swedish foreign minister Ms. Margot Wallström. A couple of pictures have been added to the photo gallery. Meryl Streep’s speech can be watched in the video archive. Edit: After the meeting, a press conference took place, in which the meeting’s participants also spoke. Photos and a video from this appearance have been added as well.

For the last two months, hundreds of organizations and millions of people – from #WinWithBlackWomen to #CatLadiesForKamala and everyone in between – have united to change our country. On one special night, they’ll all come together with one of our country’s biggest forces for good: Oprah Winfrey. Several A-listers were among the thousands who joined a live-streamed event Thursday, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, that united the many grassroots political groups supporting Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. At the beginning of the Unite For America call, Winfrey shouted out Meryl Streep, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Tracee Ellis Ross and Bryan Cranston for Zooming in. She also highlighted the grassroots groups that have hosted their own Zoom events supporting Harris in recent months, including Win with Black Women, White Dudes for Harris, Win with Black Men, Republicans for Harris, Swifties for Kamala, among others. Elsewhere on the Unite For America call, Streep said she feels “the word of the day has been preventable,” adding that “all of this, the surround of hatred and venom and toxicity and encouraging some segment of Americans to hate other segments of Americans,” is preventable.” “It’s just crazy and nobody wants it,” the actress continued. “We’re done, we’re done with it.” The full show can be watched in the video archive, screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery.

Meryl Streep is in Los Angeles attending the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards as a nominee for “Only Murders in the Building”. The award, one of the few surprises of the evening so far, did not go to predicted winner Hannah Einbinder nor “industry veterans” Streep or Carol Burnett, but to “The Bear”‘s Liza Colón-Zayas. Edit: Lots of additional pictures from the arrivals, the ceremony as well as screencaptures have been added to the archives. Enjoy.

The Primetime Emmy Awards take place this Sunday. Meryl Streep is nominated for “Only Murders in the Building” and will be attending the ceremony alongside her nominated cast colleagues. On Friday, Robin Roberts hosted “The 76th Emmys: A Night of Firsts”, airing Friday, September 13, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. A special edition of 20/20, ABC News’ primetime special will give viewers insight into the milestone moments, historic nominations, and powerful storytelling that has defined an epic year of firsts for this year’s television season. The special will feature interviews with nominees Hiroyuki Sanada (Shōgun), Lionel Boyce (The Bear), and Lily Gladstone (Under the Bridge), along with television icon Carol Burnett. Chris Connolly will interview hosts Eugene and Dan Levy, as well as Only Murders in the Building stars Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, and Meryl Streep. An excerpt from the programme, in which Burnett reveals she would love to work with Meryl Streep – and gets an immediate compliment back, has been released and can be watched in the video archive.

Screencaptures from the first episode of Only Murders in the Building’s season 4 have been added to the photo gallery: After finishing the podcast’s latest season, the trio goes to Charles’ apartment to celebrate, unaware of Sazz’s murder as the body has already disappeared. The next morning, Charles texts Sazz and receives a reply that she had to fly to L.A. to double for Scott Bakula. The trio is approached by Bev Melon of Paramount Pictures with a proposal for a film adaptation of their podcast, and they fly to L.A. to discuss the deal. At a party thrown by the studio, they meet the actors who will play them, namely Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis, and Eva Longoria, with the latter advising a relucant Mabel to use the money for her life rights to build something on her own. Many thanks, once again, to M for providing screencaptures, after being generous enough to cover season 3 for us last year.