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| Jun 19th 2012, 21:22 |
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So, I was in a store today browsing the book section and there was a book called "The Meryl Streep Movie Club" or something like that... It was one of those cheesy girlie romance novels, but basically the plot is about three sisters or cousins forced to live together after some sort of tragedy and how they bond over Meryl Streep movies... I didn't buy it but I thought you guys would want to know about it. http://www.amazon.com/The-Meryl-Streep-Movie-Club/dp/1451655398
Finola Hughes was robbed this year!
Daytime Emmy 2014! |
| Jun 19th 2012, 22:03 |
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lol. Sound a little like the Jane Austen Book Club movie. The movie is about like 5 women and like 1 guy who start a book club and they read jane austen. Although i can see why some people would think its a bad movie, but i actually enjoyed it.......lol its a guilty pleasure. Anyway the casting was pretty good. Maria Bello and Emily Blunt were in it. lol totally not about meryl streep but interesting. :) |
| Jun 20th 2012, 10:51 |
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B: O/T, but is that chubby guy in your avatar really Channing Tatum? But it couldn't be, they would never cast a fat dude as a stripper, would they? (Which sounds a lot like Chris Farley auditioning for Chippendales on an old episode of SNL...) S |
| Jul 14th 2012, 18:02 |
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Yes, That was Channing in my avatar. It was clearly pre-Magic Mike. Anyway, I've been watching a lot of Meryl movies this month and wanted to share my thoughts: One True Thing, The River Wild, It's Complicated and Heartburn are the one's I've watched recently. ---One True Thing--- A great performance from Meryl. She earned that Oscar-Nod. However, I'd venture to say the movie as a whole is only so/so. It's one of the best performances Zellweger has ever given (if not THE best), but the movie suffered from plot issues, poor writing and really hammy direction. ----Heartburn--- A really lackluster film. It left me unsatisfied. Not always funny when it should be and very poorly constructed. Meryl was decent, but had so little of worth to do. ---The River Wild--- Meryl gave a brave, strong and commanding performance here. The movie was thrilling, exciting and left you wondering how it would all end. Kevin Bacon was good, very good even. A fine movie. ---It's Complicated--- Superb. An excellent movie. All around excellence. This week I plan to watch Marvin's Room and Julie & Julia, both movies I've seen before but want to see again.
Finola Hughes was robbed this year!
Daytime Emmy 2014! |
| Sep 27th 2012, 08:05 |
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Someone needs to edit the title of this thread and capitalize Ms. Streep's name. Also, looks like Tommy Lee Jones and Streep might be teaming up again (please, please, please, someone cast JESSICA LANGE in this so that she and Streep can play insane women being transported across the prairie!). http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/streep-swank-find-home-tommy-lee-jones-exclusive-58196 Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank Take On 'The Homesman' With Tommy Lee Jones (Exclusive) Are Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank joining Tommy Lee Jones on the American prairie? With the American Film Market just around the corner, a number of pre-sales projects have begun to circulate among buyers, including “The Homesman” with Streep and Swank part of the package, TheWrap has learned.
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In May it was announced that Jones would write, direct, produce and star in the period piece, which follows a pioneer, played by Jones, and a frontier woman as they escort three insane women across the American prairie. No additional cast was announced at that time. Now an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap that buyers are being presented with a pre-AFM package that includes the two A -list actresses. Also read: Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones Join Mob Comedy 'Malavita' Swank will play the frontier woman, but it was not clear which role Streep would play. Streep also starred with Jones this year in “Hope Springs.” Michael Fitzgerald will produce "The Homesman" through his Ithaca Films label, while Jones will produce through The Javelina Film Company. Luc Besson's EuropaCorp. is producing financing and distributing the film internationally. Jones made his directorial debut with TNT’s "The Good Old Boys." His first feature as both a producer and director was the 2005 drama "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," which was also produced by Fitzgerald and EuropaCorp. He recently directed an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's play "The Sunset Limited" for HBO. |
| Sep 27th 2012, 08:30 |
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 From Publishers Weekly "Utilizing a classic western plot--a journey across rough land under perilous conditions--and a mismatched pair of protagonists who'll remind many readers of those in The African Queen , Swarthout tells a sturdy if by now familiar tale," commented PW on this "melancholy " novel by the author of The Shootist. Found more info on this project. Um, ordering the novel now much? lol.
From Publishers Weekly "Utilizing a classic western plot--a journey across rough land under perilous conditions--and a mismatched pair of protagonists who'll remind many readers of those in The African Queen , Swarthout tells a sturdy if by now familiar tale," commented PW on this "melancholy " novel by the author of The Shootist. From the author's website http://www.glendonswarthout.com/novels/homesman.htm: The Homesman is a devastating, humane story of early pioneers to America's West in the 1850's. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of -- the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by that life of bitter hardship. When a nineteen-year-old mother loses her three children to diphtheria in three days, or a woman left alone for two nights has to shoot wolves as they crash through the window, it is no wonder they should lose their minds. After a dreadful winter, the Rev. Dowd finds there are four such cases in his parish and, as yet, no asylum. A "homesman" must be found to escort the women East to civilization. Not a job anyone would volunteer for, it falls to Mary Bee Cuddy, ex-teacher, spinster -- indomitable, resourceful, "plain as an old tin pail." Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone -- and the only companion available is as low-life and untrustworthy as may be: "George Briggs" the claim-jumper. Thus begins a trek East, against the flow of the country, against hardship, Indian attacks, ice storms, loneliness, and the unceasing aggravation of a disparate group of mad women, which provides a series of tough, fast-paced adventures and introduces two wonderful, idiosyncratic characters. This is the tale of their journey, and a tribute to the valor of the men and women who homesteaded the frontier, whether they survived or not. The Homesman is narrative fiction of the first rank. And in Mary Bee Cuddy, Glendon Swarthout has created a portrait of a frontier woman who is as moving and believable as it is unforgettable. |
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