A&E Network is going Hollywood with “New York at the Movies,” a two-hour documentary special hosted by Meryl Streep that looks at how New York is placed as a backdrop in motion pictures. A&E executives said the special could serve as a pilot for a periodic series about movies and other cities. “New York” will premiere March 17 at 8 p.m. EST and will examine notable Hollywood movies employing the Big Apple, incl. “King Kong,” “West Side Story” “Manhattan.”

Afghan Women’s Summit delegates’ meeting with the United Nations Security Council urged that aid to Afghanistan be sent on condition of improving women’s rights. Shafiqa Habibi was head of the Women’s Radio and Television Broadcast Organization until the Taliban came to power. Meryl Streep joined the news conference to lend support, saying ina statement,

These women are strong and courageous, and their leadership and commitment are inspiring to all of us.

Liam Neeson and Meryl Streep hosted the Nobel Peace Price Concert yesterday in Oslo. Winner of the award was Kofi Anan. Musical guests that evening included Paul McCartney, Aha, Anastacia and Wyclef Jean

In support of the Tribeca Film Festival, Meryl appeared alongside founder Robert De Niroas well as Martin Scorcese, Ed Burns and major Bloomberg at its press conference. The festival will have it’s premiere fom May 1 to May 5 2002

Actors Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson are going to host this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo. The event is sheduled December 11th 2001

The website americanforests.org reported that Meryl Streep can now be heard narrating public service announcements for AMERICAN FORESTS, the nation’s oldest nonprofit conservation organization and a world leader in planting trees for environmental restoration. The new PSAs are currently airing on ABC, CBS, HGTV, Animal Planet, and dozens of local network television affiliates and cable companies across the United States. Streep recently recorded the PSAs while she was in New York City, appearing in a theater production in Central Park.

An all-star cast including actors Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Philip Seymor Hoffman, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts will collaborate, in November, on a revival and adaptation of The World of Nick Adams by A. E. Hotchner and Aaron Copland. The work, originally broadcast by CBS-TV in 1957, will be presented at New York’sAvery Fisher Hall on November 19. The piece, which is based on the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, hasn’t been performed since its initial airing on television. The performance will be a benefit for Newman’s Association of Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, which services children with life-threatening diseases.

Christopher Reeve joined some 1,000 friends and donors at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City Tuesday for “A Magical Evening: Discover the Magic,” a black-tie fundraiser for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. Helen Hunt hosted the event, which was attended by couples Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, as well as Billy Baldwin, Denise Rich, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Joe Pantoliano.

Hollywood.com reported that ten years after it became a sensation on Broadway, Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning gay-themed play Angels in America, May be coming to television as an HBO miniseries starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep and directed by Mike Nichols, the New York Post reported Friday, citing a person close to the project. The project will be a joint production between HBO and A venue Pictures and would be aired as six one-hour episodes, the newspaper said.

Nicolas Cage has agreed to take a starring role in the movie ‘Adaptation’, and now Variety reports that serial Oscar nominee and two-time winner Meryl Streep has joined him. Adaptation, which is being characterized as a dark comedy along the lines of Malkovich, tracks the struggles of the screenwriter Charlie Kaufmann to draft a script based on sometime New Yorker essayist Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Cage will play Kaufmann, Streep is considering playing the part of Orlean.