Here’s a new interview with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones courtesy AARP Magazine with scans to follow. At first glance, they would seem the unlikeliest of couples. The classically beautiful Meryl Streep was her New Jersey high school’s homecoming queen and always compassionate and willing. Tommy Lee Jones, in contrast, came from rural Texas, where even in youth, his face seemed to mirror his hardscrabble environment, carved with lines like a peach pit. Equally harsh is his taciturn demeanor. Strange bedfellows unless you ask director David Frankel, who cast Streep and Jones as the leads in his upcoming film, Hope Springs, a portrait of a midlife couple grasping to regain their sexual passion. “Tommy’s an extraordinary actor first, but he’s also sexy,” says Frankel. “It was important to have someone play opposite Meryl whom she found really sexy, so you could imagine a sexual history between them that had died.” In fact, Streep, 63, and Jones, 65, have more in common than it appears. Both possess sharp literary intellects. They claim four Oscars between them but cite their offspring as their proudest accomplishment. Married for 34 years to sculptor Don Gummer, Streep has four children, ages 21 to 32. Jones, wed to third wife Dawn since 2001, has a son, age 29, and daughter, 20, from his second marriage. The complete interview can be read here.

We always come back, because the good nights at the Delacorte have a rare, peculiar magic. Wind stirs the trees, the skies darken, the stage fills with a blending of real and artificial moonlight; then one of our country’s greatest actors, working for sub-minimum, steps forward to speak the best and most beautiful words ever written, revealing aspects of ourselves we never expected to encounter in Central Park. Boundaries dissolve, between actor and audience, self and park, art and nature.

We discover anew how porous boundaries always are. This summer, for the price of a little urban strategy, Sitzfleisch, and faith, we’ll walk into the woods of Central Park to enter… the woods, either Shakespeare’s or Sondheim and Lapine’s, their ersatz forests onstage not a twig more unnatural than the park the stage is nestled in. Gloriously self-invented and self-deceiving, Lily Rabe’s Rosalind will speak, and Donna Murphy’s witch will sing, and our knowledge of what it is to be human will deepen. In this theatrical heart of this communal dream of paradise that’s the heart of the ceaselessly inventing, deluding, magical city surrounding us, our hearts will skip a beat, or momentarily stop, or swell to bursting – and then begin beating anew, pumping through our veins and arteries revivified and richer blood.

Another change has been made to Simply Streep that I had in mind for quite some time now – subsections for international articles. The aim is to provide foreign language articles as well. And to keep a better overview, each country receives its own subcategory. If you have collected non-english articles and would like to share them with the visitors of Simply Streep, please drop me a line. For now, subcategories for Germany, Italy and France have been created – you can already find some (translated) articles, which were kindly contributed by Simona and Soukup. You can find the subcategories on the left in the magazine archive, simply click the flags. Also added to the image library are two French articles from 1983 and 1986, sent in by Alvaro. Enjoy!

A couple of new magazine scans have been added, featuring articles from the USA, the UK, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Especially interesting is Entertainment Weekly’s Summer Preview with a first in-depth article on “Hope Springs”. Many thanks to Alvaro and Jitka for contributing the scans. Enjoy reading!

Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Empire Magazine (United Kingdom, June 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Total Film Magazine (United Kingdom, May 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Entertainment Weekly (USA, April 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Marie Claire (Czech Republic, March 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Weekend Magazin (Austria, March 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Die ganze Woche (Germany, February 2012)

With many thanks to the great Alvaro, more international magazine scans from February to March 2012, coming from Spain, Brasil, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the USA, have been added to the image library. The full list of latest additions can be found below. Enjoy reading!

Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – People Magazine (USA, March 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Cinemania Magazine (Spain, March 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Caras Magazine (Brasil, March 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Entertainment Weekly (USA, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Veja Magazine (Brasil, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Marie Claire (Brasil, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Revista Expresso (Portugal, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – S Magazine (United Kingdom, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Revista Quem (Brasil, March 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Celebs on Sunday (United Kingdom, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Make-Up Artist Magazine (USA, January 2012)

Here’s the second part of today’s magazine update. For more information on what has been added, please check the previous update.

Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Chi Magazine (Italy, March 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Der Spiegel (Germany, March 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Aera Magazine (Japan, March 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Time Magazine (USA, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – The Hollywood Reporter (USA, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Primero (Netherlands, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Attitude Magazine (USA, February 2012)

Lots of additional scans from fifteen magazines have been added to the image library, all ranging from January to March 2012 and coming from the USA, the UK, Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Japan, so there should be something for everyone :-) My dearest thanks to those who have contributed – Alvaro, Simona, Katrin and Asako. Have fun reading!

Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Le Point (France, February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Little White Lies (United Kingdom, January 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Time Out London (United Kingdom, January 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – The Lady (United Kingdom, January 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Film Comment (USA, January/February 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Time Magazine (USA, January 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – People Magazine (USA, January 2012)
Image Library – Magazine Scans – 2012 – Entertainment Weekly (USA, January 2012)

Here comes a fantastic treat for the image library – the German “Zeit Magazin” (February 23 issue, now on newsstands) has an in-depth article on Meryl’s and Brigitte Lacombe’s collaboration throughout the years, featuring an array of stunning pictures. Seriously, I’m going to write this every time there’s an update related to Brigitte Lacombe – hopefully one day she’ll publish a book with just pictures of Meryl! Enjoy the scans :-)

Scans from eight new international magazines have been added to the image library, with many thanks to Lydia-Caroline, Elisa, Sandra and Simona! Your contributions are very appreciated! A full list of new additions can be found below.

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Version Femina (France, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Elle Magazine (France, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Le Nouvel Observateur (France, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > M Le magazine du monde (France, January 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Paris Match (France, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Point de Vue (France, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > My Weekly (United Kingdom, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Ciak Magazine (Italy, February 2012)

This update has been made possible by fellow visitors Glenn, Séverine, Amélie and Lydie-Caroline who’ve sent in some recent magazine scans of French and Canadian articles. You cann find them all in the image library. Thanks to you all for your generous contributions!

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > NOW Magazine (Canada, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Premiere Magazine (France, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Tele Cable Sat (France, February 2012)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2012 > Illimité Magazine (France, February 2012)