Vanity Fair will have a stunning cover with Meryl for its January 2010 issue, on newsstands December 2! Hollywood is no place for older women – or is it? Leslie Bennetts investigates the mystery of how, at age 60, Meryl Streep has become the industry’s “new box-office queen.” The evidence is indisputable: Her 2008 screen musical Mamma Mia!, Bennetts writes, “has grossed $601 million worldwide, despite some cringe-worthy reviews (for the movie, not its much-lauded heroine).” The Devil Wears Prada, in which Streep played a demanding fashion-magazine editrix, has raked in $324 million around the world. And Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, released earlier this year, has earned $121 million and counting. Producers hope for comparable results from It’s Complicated, a Christmas release featuring a love triangle between Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin. All this unexpected success has had the effect of exploding several long-standing myths: There is no life after 40 for women in Hollywood. Au contraire! “It’s incredible – I’m 60,

and I’m playing the romantic lead in romantic comedies!” Streep says to Bennetts. “Bette Davis is rolling over in her grave.” And while Streep’s success is no guarantee that other actresses will fare any better than they traditionally have, it’s a step in the right direction. “She broke the glass ceiling of an older woman being a big star – it has never, never happened before,” says Mike Nichols. Regarding Mamma Mia! and its aforementioned box-office haul of more than a half-billion dollars, Streep says:

It’s so gratifying because it’s the audience that nobody really gives a shit about.

 

A preview of the article, including some stunning photographs can be found on Vanity Fair’s website. To read more about Meryl Streep, and learn more about the ways in which her incredible third-act success is overturning Hollywood’s assumptions, pick up a copy of Vanity Fair’s January issue, out December 2 in New York and Los Angeles and December 8 nationwide.

A couple of remaining magazine scans from September to November 2009 have been added to the Image Library. They’re all about the European release of “Julie & Julia” as well as early buzz on “It’s Complicated”. Many thanks to the people who have contributed these – Andrea, Alvaro, Elmira, Nora and Shannys. Thanks a lot!

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2009 > Elle Magazine (Argentina, November 2009)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2009 > Entertainment Weekly (USA, October 2009)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2009 > L’Officiel Magazine (Russia, October 2009)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2009 > Oggi Magazine (Italy, October 2009)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2009 > Roma Capitale Magazine (Italy, October 2009)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2009 > Diva Magazine (Netherlands, October 2009)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2009 > Sunday Life Magazine (United Kingdom, September 2009)

Scans from the latest Entertainment Weekly have been added to the Image Library. Enjoy!

Many thanks to the folks at Entertainment Weekly for sending this in:

This week’s Entertainment Weekly is the annual Holiday Movie Preview – a guide to the season’s upcoming films that include grown-up comedies, sci-fi adventures, Oscar contenders, and more. In “It’s Complicated”, Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin both meet their match. Streep plays a divorcee who has a fling with her hotheaded ex-husband (Baldwin) just as she’s contemplating dating her gentlemanly architect (Steve Martin). “I mean, am I not the luckiest woman on the face of the planet?” asks Streep. “I think it’s more to do with the fantasy of women my age and the we’re-not-done-yet feeling.”
 

That theme is familiar for writer-director Nancy Meyers, who explored similar terrain in Something’s Gotta Give, which raked in $125 million in the process. If early buzz is to be believed, It’s Complicated could be headed in the same direction. For Hollywood, this movie makes a bold statement that romance isn’t just for twenty- or thirtysomethings. “I don’t mean to be glib, but the title really is perfect. It is complicated,” says Baldwin. “I had a pretty tough divorce myself, so sometimes I sit there and I go, ‘Well, should I have worked it out? Maybe I should have tried harder.’ It’s also what you teach your children about their love lives. That’s a big thing for me, to teach my daughter: No risk, no reward. I want her to realize that it’s a roll of the dice. Not everybody gets so lucky, where they have a family and a marriage forever and ever. [Gestures to Streep, who has been married to sculptor Don Gummer since 1978] But you have to try. People say, Do I believe in getting married? Oh yeah, of course I do. I’d love to get married again. [Pause] I have to find a really rich woman so I can stay home and read books all day.”

One scene in the film has Streep’s character freaking out in the plastic surgeon’s office after the doctor explains the horrifying potential complications. “Well, if you’ve ever even contemplated that stuff and looked at what can go wrong in any of those magazines, it’s terrifying!” she says. Many people in Hollywood attempt to hide their age, but Streep says “Yeah, but now every part of your life is so chronicled. If something mysteriously looks better…[Trails off in a fit of giggles].” Baldwin retorts “I’m not saying I wouldn’t do something! I intend to do something. I probably will. Let’s put it this way: I wouldn’t’ rule it out because……You don’t think I wake up every day and wish I looked like this and this and this? But I can’t let that bother me. I’ll never forget, I said to Mike Nichols, ‘Who do you think is the greatest actor?’ And he said, ‘Nicholson. Because he has no vanity.’ I thought, God, what a thing to say.”

The full article can be read in the latest Entertaimment Weekly, on newsstands November 6, 2009!

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2009 > Best Movie Magazine (Italy, October 2009)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2009 > Magazin DNES (Czech Republic, March 2009)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2008 > Ciné Live (France, November 2008)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2008 > Gael Magazine (France, September 2008)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2008 > Madame Figaro (France, September 2008)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2008 > Focus Knack Magazine (Netherlands, September 2008)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2007 > Vim & Vigor Magazine (USA, December 2007)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2007 > El Mundo Magazine (Spain, December 2007)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2007 > L’Express Magazine (France, November 2007)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2007 > L’Espresso Magazine (Italy, November 2007)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2007 > Famous Magazine (USA, November 2007)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2007 > Monet Magazine (Brasil, September 2007)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Elle Magazine (UK, November 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Woman & Home Magazine (USA, November 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Good Housekeeping Magazine (UK, November 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > ISA Magazine (Canada, October 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Diva Donna Magazine (Netherlands, October 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Glossy Magazine (Netherlands, October 2006)

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Marie France (France, October 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Version Femina (France, September 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Femme Actuelle (France, September 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Entertainment Weekly (USA, June 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Time Magazine (USA, June 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > NWA World Traveler Magazine (USA, June 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2006 > Vanity Fair Magazine (Italy, February 2006)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2005 > The Independent on Sunday (UK, May 2005)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2004 > Cinemania Magazine (Spain, October 2004)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2004 > Vivil Cinema Magazine (Italy, October 2004)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2004 > In Style Magazine (USA, October 2004)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2003 > Interview Magazine (USA, December 2003)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2003 > Entertainment Weekly (USA, October 2003)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2003 > Ciak Magazine (Italy, March 2003)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2003 > Los Angeles Magazine (USA, March 2003)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2003 > Ciné Live (France, March 2003)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2003 > Biography Magazine (USA, February 2003)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2002 > Newsweek Magazine (USA, December 2002)

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2001 > Vanity Fair Magazine (USA, July 2001)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2001 > TV Sorrisie Canzoni (Italy, April 2001)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 2000 > Vanidades Continental (Spain, October 2000)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1999 > Ciné Live (France, June 1999)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1998 > Vanity Fair Magazine (UK, September 1998)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1998 > Elle Magazine (France, June 1998)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1997 > Ciné Live (France, June 1997)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1997 > In Style Magazine (USA, June 1997)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1997 > Premiere Magazine (UK, June 1997)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1997 > Vanity Fair Magazine (USA, March 1997)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1997 > Vanidades Continental (Spain, March 1997)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1996 > Film TV Magazine (Italy, July 1996)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1996 > Entertainment Weekly (USA, February 1996)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1995 > El Mundo Magazine (Spain, October 1995)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1995 > Feature Magazine (USA, September 1995)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1995 > Premiere Magazine (UK, January 1995)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1992 > Blanko Y Negro (Spain, December 1992)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1991 > Marquee Magazine (Canada, March 1991)

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1989 > Marquee Magazine (Canada, December 1989)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1989 > Vanity Fair Magazine (USA, December 1989)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1989 > Premiere Magazine (France, May 1989)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1989 > Woman’s Weekly (New Zealand, May 1989)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1989 > Woman’s Day (Australia, April 1989)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1987 > New Idea Magazine (USA, October 1987)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1987 > Woman’s Weekly (New Zealand, July 1987)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1987 > Cinema Magazine (Germany, January 1987)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1987 > Film Review Magazine (UK, January 1987)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1986 > Texas Monthly (USA, September 1986)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1986 > American Film (USA, April 1986)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1985 > Cosmopolitan Magazine (USA, December 1985)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1985 > Films Magazine (USA, June 1985)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1985 > Films and Filming (UK, April 1985)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1985 > La Revue Du Cinema (France, March 1985)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1984 > Dial Magazine (USA, July 1984)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1984 > Hola Magazine (Spain, April 1984)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1984 > Films on Screen and Video (UK, March 1984)

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1984 > People Magazine (USA, February 1984)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > Marquee Magazine (Canada, December 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > US Magazine (USA, December 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > Movie Magazine (USA, December 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > Gente Magazine (Spain, May 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > Film Review Magazine (UK, May 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > Veja Magazine (Portugal, April 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > McCalls Magazine (Canada, March 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > New Idea Magazine (USA, March 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > Lecturas Magazine (Spain, February 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > Movie Magazine (USA, February 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1983 > Film Review Magazine (UK, January 1983)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1982 > Redbook Magazine (USA, September 1982)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1982 > Diez Minutos Magazine (Spain, May 1982)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1981 > Films Illustrated (UK, December 1981)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1981 > Protagonista Magazine (Spain, December 1981)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1981 > Woman’s Day (Australia, November 1981)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1981 > TV Times Magazine (UK, October 1981)

Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1981 > Gente Magazine (Spain, October 1981)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1981 > New York Magazine (USA, September 1981)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1981 > New York Magazine (USA, January 1981)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Photoplay Magazine (UK, October 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Woman’s Day (Australia, August 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Film Review Magazine (UK, June 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Hola Magazine (Spain, May 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > UK Magazine (UK, May 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Paris Match Magazine (France, May 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Film Review Magazine (UK, April 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Fotogramas Magazine (Spain, April 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > La Semana (Columbia, April 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > TV Guide (UK, March 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Elle Magazine (France, March 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Gente Magazine (Spain, January 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1980 > Protagonistas Magazine (Spain, January 1980)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1979 > Hola Magazine (Spain, October 1979)
Image Library > Magazine Scans > 1979 > Feature Magazine (USA, February 1979)