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Meryl Streep's Next Great Role: Mother-in-Law!

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Meryl Streep's Next Great Role: Mother-in-Law!

Originally posted 10/20/2009 08:05AM

Get ready for an acting dynasty: Actress Mamie Gummer, Meryl Streep's daughter, is engaged to stage actor Ben Walker, she told PEOPLE at the annual Whitney Gala Monday night, sponsored by Versace.

And he did on the old-fashioned way – on one knee.

"Yeah, he sure did," Gummer, 25, said, adding that her family is ecstatic. her dad is sculptor Don Gummer. "They're all very happy … we're very, very smiley."

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Meryl Streep on Gaining 15 Lbs.: 'It Was Worth It' | Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep on Gaining 15 Lbs.: 'It Was Worth It'

Originally posted 07/08/2009 01:45PM

Meryl Streep walked away from her role as über-chef Julia Child in director Nora Ephron's upcoming Julie & Julia with more than improved cooking skills.

"I gained 15 pounds, I'm still trying to lose it," Streep, 60, says in the August issue of Ladies' Home Journal (on newsstands July 14). "It was worth it."

Angelina Jolie Tops Jennifer Aniston as Top-Earning Actress

Angelina Jolie Tops Jennifer Aniston as Top-Earning Actress

Originally posted 07/01/2009 08:00PM

Angelina Jolie made $2 million more than Jennifer Aniston as the highest paid actress in Hollywood, according to Forbes.

Jolie earned $27 million from June 2008 to June 2009, lists Forbes, which polled industry insiders. The bulk of Jolie's earnings came from last year's action-flick Wanted, according to Forbes. Aniston earned $25 million, placing her second.

Meryl Streep, who won an Oscar for her performance in Doubt, placed third for earning $24 million, followed by Sarah Jessica Parker with $23 million and Cameron Diaz, who took home $20 million.

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Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson Appearing on Cancer Telethon | Jennifer Aniston

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Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson Appearing on Cancer Telethon

Originally posted 07/28/2008 09:40PM

Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson and Charlize Theron are among the A-listers who signed on for the Stand Up To Cancer telethon in September.

American Idol David Cook, Christina Applegate, Meryl Streep and Sally Field also will appear on the Sept. 5 broadcast, which will be simultaneously aired on ABC, CBS and NBC to raise money for cancer research and treatment.

Dozens of other celebrities and sports figures will also be appearing on the program, according to Stand Up To Cancer.

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Amanda Seyfried Gushes Over Her 'Studly' Mamma Mia! Costars

Amanda Seyfried Gushes Over Her 'Studly' Mamma Mia! Costars

Originally posted 06/30/2008 03:40PM

Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried gets very excited if you mention a certain British actor and a former Bond man.

"He's so sexy, Colin Firth, so sexy [and] will always be," Seyfried, 22, told Entertainment Tonight as she giggled about her Mamma Mia! costar.

And she feels equally as lucky when it comes to sharing the screen with another handsome actor: Pierce Brosnan.

"Shooting in the summer of '07 on the 007 [sound]stage with a 007, that's one of the things he said to me, and I was like, 'You're right, I am lucky,' because he's a studly, studly man!" the actress says.

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Meryl Streep Voted Most Likely to Play Hillary | Hillary Rodham Clinton, Meryl Streep

Casting the Presidential Wannabes: Meryl Streep Voted Most Likely to Play Hillary

Originally posted 04/08/2008 04:40PM

The Queen got Helen Mirren. So, who should play Hillary Clinton on the screen?

Meryl Streep, who played a U.S. senator ruthlessly trying to get her son to the White House in the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate, was the top pick among 500 women surveyed nationwide in Lifetime Television's latest "Every Woman Counts" polling. In results tabulated Tuesday, Glenn Close was the runner-up, with Diane Keaton placing third.

Clinton's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama, told Tyra Banks in September that he initially thought Denzel Washington would make a fine Obama. "But then somebody pointed out that, with my ears, it might have to be Will Smith," Obama added.

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Meryl Streep, Tony Bennett Launch Darfur Campaign | Meryl Streep, Tony Bennett

Meryl Streep, Tony Bennett Launch Darfur Campaign

Originally posted 11/22/2006 07:30AM

Tony Bennett and Meryl Streep on Wednesday launched a national TV campaign to bring aid to war-torn Darfur.

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Meryl Calls the Oscar Race 'Disgusting'

Originally posted 07/03/2003 10:00AM

Meryl Streep, who won the best supporting actress Golden Globe for "Adaptation" but lost in the Oscar race, has described the Academy Awards as "distasteful," she tells Britain's Daily Telegraph.

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Meryl Streep Will Not Wear Out Welcome

Originally posted 02/14/2003 10:20AM

There's never any substitute for talent and intelligence, as Meryl Streep has proved once again.

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Meryl Gets Streeped by SAG Award Snafu

Originally posted 01/29/2003 01:00PM

When Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe earlier this month for her supporting role in "Adaptation," she told the cheering crowd that she hadn't prepared a speech "because it's been since the Pleistocene Age since I've won any of these."

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