In Vanity Fair's
upcoming January issue there is an interesting feature by Leslie Bennett. The
story is about Meryl Streep, a 60-year-old woman who has become the industry's
"new box-office queen."
After reading
the cover story preview from the website, I think the big question this feature
asks is how, at the age of 60, has Streep's career unexpectedly shattered many
long-standing Hollywood myths.
Bennett says,
whoever said there is no life after 40 for women in Hollywood is wrong.
The evidence is
indisputable in the case of Streep, who stared in the screen musical Mamma
Mia! and played a
demanding fashion-magazine editrix in The Devil Wears
Parada.
"It's
incredible--I'm 60, and I'm playing the romantic lead in romantic comedies!"
Streep said, to Bennett. "Bette Davis is rolling over in her grave."
According to
Bennett, producers hope for a huge success from Streep's newest movie, It's Complicated, a Christmas release.
I don't think
the feature does a very good job in completely its goal of myth busting.
Bennett steers away from the topic quickly and focuses on Brigitte Lacombe's 30
years' worth of portrait.
But I think
Bennett concludes her profile feature well. By the end, she is able to draw a
picture of who Meryl Streep really is to the reader in a rather comical way. Bennett
even notes how Streep hates to have her picture taken.
You can see a
slide show of Brigitte Lacombe's portraits of Streep onVanity Fair's website.
Overall, I would
recommend buying the January issue of Vanity Fair in order to read the feature
cover story about Meryl Streep.
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