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PHOTOS FROM THE SHANGHAI FILM FESTIVAL & MORE
Posted: 2004-06-16 | Source: Webmaster

Added a bunch of press photos from Meryl's appearance at the 2004 Shanghai Film Festival. Many thanks to IrisCharlotte, Erica and Bing for contributing them :-) Plus, the first poster for "The Manchurian Candidate". Also, take a look at our latest cool affiliate, About Julia.com on Julia Roberts

MORE AFI PHOTOS AND NEW "MANCHURIAN" TRAILER
Posted: 2004-06-13 | Source: Webmaster

Lots of new photos from the American Film Institute's honor are now in the Photos section. Plus, there's a new trailer for "The Manchurian Candidate", more new videos, including an interview with Meryl and Denzel Washington and the trailer for "The French Lieutenant's Woman" can be found in the Multimedia section.

ALL NEWS ON THE AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Posted: 2004-06-10 | Source: Webmaster

Meryl received her AFI Life Achievement Award, yesterday, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Launch our gallery to check some photos from the event and read related articles on the evening by MSNBC, The Melbourne Herald Sun and the Official press release by the American Film Institute.

In an article with the Hollywood Reporter, Meryl's friends and colleagues have shared their thoughts. Read a selection below or launch all comments @ the Hollywood Reporter

Robert Redford
Of all the people I know, Meryl is by far the one who can do anything she wants to do. We had a couple of scenes (during filming of 1985's "Out of Africa") where lions had to be charging us, and she had enormous courage. The character had to be almost foolish in her courage - she was so anxious to belong in the world she stepped into - so Meryl had to do it. She had to be adventurous and courageous around wild animals - sometimes without knowing quite what she was doing - and my character had to guide her through. When we were working, sometimes it was with lions charging, and we had to stand there and load and reload. That takes a certain amount of fortitude and courage, and she had it."

Nicole Kidman
"I grew up with Meryl Streep, and she was the greatest actress that my whole generation of women aspire to be. She raised the standard in terms of what you can do - as a woman, as a mother (and) as an actress. You can still have a life and be an actress; she shows you how to do it and give these brilliant performances that are so diverse. She's a lot of fun, on top of that; she has a lot of joie de vivre."

Julianne Moore
"When you watch her work in something like (2002's) "Adaptation," where it's so kind-of idealistic - it's slippery sort of stuff - she just brings you along. You feel as if you're experiencing it with her: When she starts laughing like, "This is nuts; this is crazy," you start thinking, "This really is crazy!" She's very funny, very bright and really bossy, which is another quality I like about her. I think that comes from being four people's mother."

Carrie Fisher
"She's the best version of me I've ever seen; I wish she could do it all the time. I had to explain to her what drugs are like because she hadn't really done that. (But) I do that very well; I have a lot of practice. I didn't know that it was going to turn out to be helping Meryl as research; that's probably what I did it for - as research for Meryl. I had to teach her to be a truant, like a bad girl. I had to teach Meryl bad behavior - and anybody who wants that kind of training, that's my specialty. She understood the notion of it very well. It's ridiculous what she can do, and I think she thinks it's ridiculous, too. She's not just this goddess, or I couldn't hang around with her. That'd be awful, if she was this queen of acting ... I don't think she gets too far into character that she can't crawl out easily."

Mike Nichols
"One of the parts that Meryl played in (HBO's 2003 miniseries "Angels in America") was the rabbi. We shot a scene in a cemetery in which the rabbi sat on a bench in a row of rabbis waiting for a bus, looking like blackbirds on a fence. Two of the other rabbis were ("Angels" playwright) Tony Kushner and his friend Maurice Sendak; at the end of the day, when we said, "It's a wrap!" Maurice Sendak almost fainted when the "old Jewish man" beside him stood up, grew a foot taller and spoke in the voice of a lovely woman. He had spent all day with an old Jewish man, only to find at the end of the day that the old man was Meryl Streep. Such are the pleasures of working with Meryl."

MERYL'S MUSICAL TRIBUTE
Posted: 2004-06-09 | Source: Webmaster

This article comes from the Internet Movie Database: Meryl Streep will be showing off her singing skills when she's honored by the American Film Institute later this month - without taking the stage. Producers have created a montage of the actress' singing roles in her career and they plan to screen the footage on her special night. The Afi tribute will also feature never-before-seen clips of Streep in new movies The Manchurian Candidate and Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events.

There are some new photos from Meryl's appearance at the "amfAR Honoring with Pride" gala, which took place yesterday. Gallery can be found in the Photos section.

Two new articles were added to the Press section, all related to the Australian television release of "Angels in America". Many thanks to Kenny for submitting them.

SECOND "LEMONY SNICKETS" TEASER LAUNCHED
Posted: 2004-06-05 | Source: Webmaster

Paramount has launched a second teaser trailer of "Lemony Snickets". Like the first one, this preview again only features Meryl for two seconds or so. If you're a fan of the books anyway, take a look at it & discuss the film in our forum's Lemony Snickets topic

AFI BROADCAST DATES & NEW AFFILIATES
Posted: 2004-06-02 | Source: Webmaster

The AFI Life Achievement Award will be broadcasted on USA Network on June 21, 2004 at 9:00 PM (ET/PT). More details on the right. Info on appearing celebrity guests in the News section. Also, please welcome to cool affiliates on Al Pacino and Vanessa Paradis...

SIMPLY STREEP IS BACK
Posted: 2004-06-01 | Source: Webmaster

Simply Streep is back with tons of updates and new features. There are plenty news to report, as Meryl received honors from the New Dramatics workshop and the Middlebury College. Further info in the News section. Three new chapters were added to the Biography, making it the most complete resource on the net...