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...confusion is understandable, since she has two movies coming out in June, A Prairie Home Companion and The Devil Wears Prada. And as she talks, almost every preconceived notion you had about the imposing woman in the patent-leather clogs opposite you crumples. Wicked laughter punctuates every other sentence. She breaks into funny voices as she speaks. During the entire interview, not one tragedy befalls her. It turns out that there are a lot of myths that surround Streep. Some she cultivates, some she ignores. Here are seven of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Myths About Meryl | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...other, The Devil Wears Prada--in which Streep plays Miranda Priestley, the titular infernal being, whose every whim (coffee at a certain temperature, bouquets with no freesias) is attended to as if it were Shari'a law--might fare better. The book was written by a former assistant to Anna Wintour, the longtime editor of Vogue. There's a certain irresistibility to the grande dame of film portraying the grande dame of fashion. Streep sees it. "Whenever I said, 'I'm thinking about doing this thing,' everyone's reaction was, Oh, yesss! Sort of gleeful and venomous," she says. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Myths About Meryl | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...said. “Limbo was especially fun with the grass all wet,” said Adams. “[The rain] was fun in its own right.” Outings to Fenway Park for games between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Devil Rays and a talent show also appeared on the week’s docket. The year’s two new additions to Senior Week, a trip to the Harpoon Brewery and an event celebrating the “Last Students Standing” in Senior Bar 2006 were also well attended...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Breaking News: Harvard Kids Have Fun | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...number 666 has long held significance for those who consider Revelations 13:18's dark reference to the number as a sign that it's a mark of the devil. But now that the actual calendar day is about to arrive - on Tuesday, 6/6/06 - it's not only the superstitious among us who are looking ahead nervously and changing plans for the day. Marketers are viewing it as a selling opportunity they just can't pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Devil of a Day | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...couples are getting married in a chapel in back of Screams, Colone says, because they reasoned that things can only get better if they get married in Hell on the "Day of the Devil." "People at church frowned at me when I mentioned the celebrations this week," says Chad Wines, who works at Screams. "They said 666 was the mark of the beast. But I'm just here to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Devil of a Day | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

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