Despite visits to the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Academy Awards as a nominee for last year’s “Music of the Heart”, Meryl Streep kept a very low profile in 2000 with no film project and only a few narration jobs. In November, she attended the first-ever White House Conference on Culture and Diplomacy, alongside John Lithgow and Chuck Close, where the President and the First Lady, Bill and Hillary Clinton, talked about the need and importance of the arts.