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...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...
...STAR Meryl Streep is not a star. A legend, but not a star. At least not in the business sense. Everyone acknowledges her talent, but very few can be relied on to turn out for a movie just because she's in it. Her last film, Prime, sank without a trace. At least one of her two new films--A Prairie Home Companion, a gentle comedy based on Garrison Keillor's radio show--will be lucky to draw much of a crowd--and it has Lindsay Lohan...
...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...
...being a star is entirely fine by Streep. She's critical, in a motherly way, of Lohan, hordes of whose fans she had to push by outside the Prairie set every day. ("Do you know who this is?" Lily Tomlin, another co-star, yelled at them.) "There's plenty of incredibly wonderful young actresses who have not chosen to be on the cover of everything," she says. "But they're not this other thing that's seen at parties, which is--I don't know what it is. I know it probably limits your ability to be imagined...
Being lots of other people is what Streep does. Mike Nichols, who has known her for 25 years, tells of a panic attack he had during the making of Silkwood, their first film together. "I knew that the Silkwood Meryl was the real Meryl, no question about it," he says. "And then I saw a screening of Sophie's Choice, and I said, 'Who the f___ is that? She's absolutely real! Which...