Meryl Streep

Julie & Julia (opens August 7), starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, is partly about pioneer blogger Julie Powell (played by Amy) who records her attempts at mastering the recipes of Julia Child (played by Meryl). So naturally, the talented actresses discuss blogging with USA Today:

Forbes magazine released its Top-Earning Actresses of the year list, based on June 2008 to June 2009 profits (including endorsement deals), and the top spot belongs to (drum roll please) ...

Angelina Jolie, with a sweet $27 million.

The 14th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards were handed out last night and the big winner of the night was Slumdog Millionaire (holla!!!), taking home to prize for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Young Actor.

Anne Hathaway was given a major honor as well, by being honored alongside Meryl Streep, the greatest actress of our time, who Hathaway “tied with” in the Best Actress category.

We’re starting to think Hathaway’s performance in Rachel Getting Married is a pretty sure bet in the Oscar pool.

The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award Nominees were announced by Angela Bassett and Eric McCormack (remember him from Will and Grace?) this morning at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood with Doubt leading the pack with five nominations.

She may be able to do any accent in the world and she can’t step in front of a camera without earning an Oscar nomination but, for some people, Meryl Streep isn’t worth the price of admission.

The acting deity auditioned for the lead role in 1976’s King Kong (which eventually went to Jessica Lange) but Italian producer Dino De Laurentis thought she was too ugly for the part and said so…in Italian.

Not realizing Meryl was fluent.

What is the opposite of doubt? Is it certainty? Belief? Or is it hope?

When John Patrick Shanley decided to bring Doubt, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, to the screen as both the film’s director and writer, he tackled the project, which he called “the hardest script I ever wrote,” with a tremendous amount of love, trust and belief that the adaptation could soar as the stage production had.

Award season is getting rolling and the Washington Critics Association is the first to pounce on proclaiming their best of the year including bestowing another posthumous honor on Heath Ledger (ya’ll know he’s winning that Oscar, right?).

He may be a Broadway veteran, but John Patrick Shanley might want to brush up on his rules of Hollywood etiquette

At the junket of his new film Doubt, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, we asked writer-director Shanley how Adams had been cast when originally there was another actor offered the role of the emotionally conflicted nun.

"I'm trying to think of what the etiquette is on this," Shanley chuckled, blushing a bit.

"Hit us with it," we said.

How did the red carpet not spontaneously combust?

Meryl Streep and Glenn Close arrive at Tuesday’s Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation 18th Annual Magical Evening Gala at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan where we hope they were fanned with palm frawns and fed peeled grapes.

Bow down, bitches!

This is too much talent for one photo to contain.

Just looking at these two together, we have the sudden urge to speak in an accent and give an acceptance speech.

Enchanted star Amy Adams is engaged to boyfriend of six years, Darren Legallo.  Adams, 33, met Legallo, an actor and artist, in acting class in 2001 and began dating after a year of friendship. The couple plans to marry sometime next year. 

“He’s really special,” Amy said, “I’m really lucky because he’s not competitive with me. He supports and embraces my success as mine. And he has his own goals for himself, but he never makes my success his failure.”