Bad Style Oscar Shaping: SAG nominations & Leo > Fassy Here are the 5 actors nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award: George Clooney, The Descendants Demian Bichir, A Better Life Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar Jean Dujardin, The Artist Brad Pitt, Moneyball Missing? Michael Fassbender. Leonardo DiCaprio, who’d been losing so much momentum, who barely factored in any of By Lainey • Dec 14, 2011 11:17 am
Girlcrushes Will Meryl campaign? Still not convinced that Meryl Streep will finally win her 3rd Oscar for The Iron Lady. So many people are fanning themselves over the brilliance of her performance as Margaret Thatcher and I’m always happy to hop on a Meryl bandwagon, totally, but ... I just don’t feel it By Lainey • Dec 12, 2011 01:49 pm
Meryl Streep Meryl in the middle Could this be the year after so many years? I dunno. I mean, she’s Meryl Streep. She is extraordinary. But there are many members of the Academy keenly aware that, really, she already has two of them. Still, a lot of it seems to be falling in the right By Lainey • Dec 05, 2011 09:35 am
Brad Pitt Award season shaping The New York Film Critics Circle announced their winners today and the Spirit Awards also released their list of nominees which means the Oscar races are starting to take shape. The NBR will reveal on Thursday, and more and more critics circles will follow in the coming days and weeks, By Lainey • Nov 29, 2011 03:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Iron Lady is coming Meryl Streep was in London today for the unveiling of the poster for The Iron Lady with the film’s director Phyllida Lloyd. Streep’s portrayal of Margaret Thatcher is expected to earn her yet another Oscar Best Actress nomination. I wasn’t really feeling the teaser trailer that was By Lainey • Nov 14, 2011 10:20 am
BFFs GOOP needs powder Gwyneth Paltrow turned up at the Good Housekeeping Shine On Awards last night in New York to present to her FRIEND Christy Turlington. You know Bono gave Christy away at her wedding? So, yeah, they’re all in that little circle. More on Gwyneth and everyone who loves her later. By Lainey • Apr 13, 2011 03:42 am
Girlcrushes She is Capable and First I f-cking love her. Who doesn’t love her? We are fighting if you don’t love her. Meryl Streep has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The FIRST ACTOR EVER to receive the honour. EVER motherf-ckers. EVER. The only person to be made a member By Lainey • Apr 12, 2010 08:31 am
Gorgessity Best White: Meryl Streep Ms Streep killed it in a Balenciaga at the SAGs. Someone must be working with a stylist now? And the stylist delivered again for the Oscars. Meryl Streep in white – perfection. The hair – perfection. Her face – perfection. And virtually untouched. As you know however, when it comes to Meryl, it By Lainey • Mar 08, 2010 04:02 am
Girlcrushes Ladies at the luncheon Today was the annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon. Notably absent: George Clooney. It’s a non-campaign year for Clooney. Looks like he’s conceding early to Jeff Bridges. But enough of the boys. Let’s talk about our girls. GO Kathryn Bigelow, poised to become the first woman ever to By Lainey • Feb 15, 2010 01:11 pm
Meryl Streep Sandy says the right things A few years ago, Eddie Murphy pissed on his Oscar chances with a sh-t movie called Norbit. The Norbit billboards directly faced the Kodak, described at the time like a slap in the face to Academy Members who frowned upon his indiscriminate film selections. Sandra Bullock was nominated yesterday for By Lainey • Feb 03, 2010 09:50 am
SAG Awards 2010 SAG Capable: Meryl & Tina Meryl Streep in Balenciaga – love. Tina Fey in Ferragamo – not my favourite. It’s the shine, it gives lumps when there are no lumps. But who cares? These are CAPABLE women. Thinking women. Women who don’t stress about the aesthetic but who will still matter when the aesthetic is By Lainey • Jan 25, 2010 12:25 am
Girlcrushes Meryl + Tina Major fangirl crushing. Last night in New York at the premiere of Meryl’s latest It’s Complicated, Tina showed up to support her co-star Alec Baldwin, of course, but there’s no doubt a lot of respect for La Streep too. After all, aside from her obvious CAPABILITIES, Meryl By Lainey • Dec 10, 2009 06:25 am
Amazingness Meryl covers, cusses, and drinks In other words, as we all know already, she’s perfect. And at 60 years old, Meryl Streep is on the cover of Vanity Fair closing out yet another triumphant year in which she delivered yet another sure-to-be-nominated performance in Julie & Julia with commercial and critical success and followed By Lainey • Dec 01, 2009 02:04 am
Girlcrushes Hearing Meryl Streep After my post on An Evening With Meryl Streep at the ROM many of you asked if there was video. This was the interview with Johanna Schneller during which Streep offered many, many memorable insights including the one about being “capable”. Her mother told her she was CAPABLE. Not special, By Lainey • Nov 10, 2009 08:46 am
Amazingness Meryl works in Rome I was told of a Meryl Streep encounter recently where she was approached by a fan at a café while she was enjoying time with friends and asked for a photo, at which point she very graciously declined and said “I’m sorry, I’m not working right now”. Unlike By Lainey • Oct 22, 2009 09:25 am
Amazingness An Evening with Meryl Streep Last night at the Royal Ontario Museum, in celebration of the ROM’s Vanity Fair Portraits exhibit, Meryl Streep took the stage with Johanna Schneller to discuss “The Question of Celebrity”. 90 minutes of full-on girlcrush. WORSHIP. I met up with 2 friends afterwards and this is how Gabrielle explained By Lainey • Oct 08, 2009 05:05 am
