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...Andrea. Its prime audience is young women in the early stages of their career facing hard choices - glam jobs vs. meaningful work, nice dull guys vs. gorgeous, morally slippery hunks - getting seriously tempted, but eventually choosing the right path. Worse, the screenwriter (Aline Brosh McKenna) and the director (David Frankel) decide to show us Miranda's human side. She hates her "dragon lady" reputation, feels guilty over her several divorces and is eventually reduced to telling Andrea that she doesn't care what the tabloids say about her, but does worry about the effect of sleazebag journalism on her young...
...STAR, BUT SHE THINKS SHE IS As it turns out, Streep is a cross between den mother and class cutup. On the set of Prada, director David Frankel was talking with Stanley Tucci about a scene. "I said, 'It's like you've been nominated for an Oscar, and they open the envelope and you don't win, and the camera's right in your face,'" recalls Frankel. "And he said, 'I can do that.' And Meryl said, 'I can do that! I've done it 11 times!!' She's very playful about being Meryl Streep." Streep is the most...
...glasses she had needed since age 4 because, she says, "I wanted to be pretty." She succeeded--she was chosen to be homecoming queen. But being unattractive is an accusation Streep has fought all her career, even in The Deer Hunter days, when she was a certifiable knockout. Frankel thinks one of the reasons Streep made a big popcorny movie like Prada is that with three daughters, she's critically aware of the well-patrolled borders of traditional beauty and the Minutemen-like function performed by the fashion magazines...
...best to destroy my natural good looks.") Though Streep's not the type to meekly offer herself up to the makeup trailer. "I thought, We'll sit down and we'll talk, and Meryl will try on a few things and we'll choose one," says Frankel of Streep's look in Prada. "No. Meryl made the decision. She and Roy sent us a photo and said, 'Here's the look.' I said, 'Great.' And the studio were beside themselves and fought it as hard as they could." (Says Elizabeth Gabler, president of Fox 2000: "We wanted to make sure...
...section of Frankel’s memoirs that Walt and Mearsheimer quote, Frankel is writing of his prior experiences as the Times’ editorial page editor, a position entirely separate from the paper’s news operations. In the period of Frankel’s life to which the quote refers, his job was to draft opinion pieces...