<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/meryl-streep">Meryl Streep</a> admitted that she’s been separated from her husband for six years.
The three-time Academy Award-winning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">actress</a> tied the knot with Don Gummer in 1978 and remains legally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marriage">wed</a> to him even now, 45 years later. But they aren’t currently together and haven’t been for some time.
Streep’s rep shared a <a href="https://people.com/meryl-streep-and-husband-don-gummer-separate-8364883">statement</a> on Friday on behalf of the couple. “Don Gummer and Meryl Streep have been separated for more than 6 years, and while they will always care for each other, they have chosen lives apart,” it read.
The couple was last seen walking the red carpet together at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018 when Streep was nominated for her role as Katharine Graham in &#8220;The Post.&#8221;
Despite being separated, the “Sophie’s Choice” star has been seen wearing her wedding ring even recently.
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Streep and Gummer were notoriously private about their relationship over the decades and didn’t often mention it during interviews. But during a 2002 conversation with <a href="https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/meryl-streep-don-gummer-tribute">Vogue</a>, Streep revealed that the secret to a long and happy marriage was “goodwill and willingness to bend — and to shut up every once in a while.”
“There’s no road map on how to raise a family: It’s always an enormous negotiation. But I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can’t imagine eschewing one for the other,” Streep told the outlet.
Streep was previously involved with actor John Cazale in the 1970s, caring for him after he was diagnosed with lung cancer until he died in 1978. She met and wed Gummer that same year after six months of dating. They had four children together: Henry Wolfe Gummer (born 1979), Mary Willa &#8220;Mamie&#8221; Gummer (born 1983), Grace Jane Gummer (born 1986), and Louisa Jacobson Gummer (born 1991). They also have five grandchildren.
 Like most of Hollywood, Streep is an outspoken leftist who frequently uses her platform to criticize Republicans and conservative policies. She also advocates for feminist causes.

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Meryl Streep Confirms She’s Been Separated From Her Husband For 6 Years

Meryl Streep Confirms She's Been Separated From Her Husband For 6 Years

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Meryl Streep

U.S.

Julie Powell, who became famous for cooking every recipe in famed cook Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” prompting a major movie to be made about her, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 49.
Julie Powell’s story was told in the film “Julie &amp; Julia,” starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as Powell. Powell first became famous through her blog, the Julie/Julia Project, in which she detailed her struggles in 2002 to cook all 524 recipes from Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1” in one year.
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“I’d never read anyone like her,” wrote Amanda Hesser, the founder of the website Food52. “Her writing was so fresh, spirited — sometimes crude! — and so gloriously unmoored to any tradition.”
“She wrote about food in a really human voice that sounded like people I knew,” echoed food blogger Deb Perelman of Powell, who was twice awarded the James Beard Award. “She communicated that you could write about food even without going to culinary school, without much experience, and in a real-life kitchen.”
Her first book, called “Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen” was published in 2005 with a second book, entitled &#8220;Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession&#8221; coming out in 2009.
Powell admitted in a <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orl-story-julie-powell-interview-story.html">2009 interview</a> that she gained 20 pounds the year she cooked all the recipes. Asked what she thought of Adams’ portrayal of her in the movie, she answered:
&#8220;The marriage scenes between her and Chris Messina, who plays my husband, feel really authentic, very much the way we talk to one another and just ARE together. And she gets the hysteria really well. She&#8217;s much nicer than me, of course,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Read the book after seeing the movie and you will be shocked. She plays these sweet roles and I, to say the least, am not sweet! I&#8217;m a complainer. But now, with my life these days, I have nothing to complain about!&#8221;
When a food editor sent Child, who was in her 90’s, excerpts from Powell’s blog, Child was not amused, telling him, “I don’t understand how she could have problems with them. She just must not be much of a cook,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/dining/julie-powell-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">reported</a>.

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Famed Food Blogger Julie Powell Of ‘Julie And Julia’ Dies Of Cardiac Arrest At 49

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Liberal actress Meryl Streep said she rejects so-called &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; &#8212; a term which is far too often parroted by feminists, harmfully stereotyping men and rhetorically casting women as victims. Streep noted that the term can be devastating to boys, and is rather silly, since females can also &#8220;be pretty f***ing toxic.&#8221;
&#8220;Sometimes I think we&#8217;re hurt. We hurt our boys by calling something toxic masculinity. I do,&#8221; Streep said during a Q&amp;A for hit television show &#8220;Big Little Lies&#8221; hosted by Vanity Fair.
&#8220;And I don&#8217;t find [that] putting those two words together &#8230; because women can be pretty f***ing toxic,&#8221; the Oscar winner continued.
&#8220;It&#8217;s toxic people,&#8221; said Streep. &#8220;We have our good angles and we have our bad ones.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/meryl-streep-toxic-masculinity-big-little-lies-season-2-qa-talk-a8936156.html">According</a> to the U.K.-based Independent, &#8220;Streep added that she thinks labels can be &#8216;less helpful&#8217; than direct communication when calling out detrimental behaviour.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re all on the boat together. We&#8217;ve got to make it work,&#8221; the actress said, referencing &#8220;certain behaviours and attitudes commonly associated with men that are perceived as being harmful, such as repressing emotion and acting in an aggressive manner,&#8221; according to the outlet.
Streep has been an outspoken feminist, cheering on award speeches from her counterparts who suggest women are being discriminated against when it comes to pay in Hollywood, for example.
In 2017, the actress teamed up with the likes of feminist Gloria Steinem to outline &#8220;demands to industry executives about the future&#8212;namely, she said, for equal pay,&#8221; <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/12/meryl-streep-talks-equality-with-gloria-steinem-at-massachusetts-womens-conference?verso=true">reported</a> Vanity Fair.
&#8220;We are after 50/50 by 2020,&#8221; said Streep. &#8220;Equal means equal. And if it starts at the top, none of these shenanigans would have filtered down and it wouldn&#8217;t have been tolerated.&#8221;
Recently, razor company Gillette unleashed an ad tackling so-called &#8220;toxic masculinity,&#8221; which was hit with praise from feminists and backlash from the general public. The controversial ad absurdly showcases a culture wherein men excuse boys&#8217; &#8220;toxic&#8221; rapey and bullying nature as &#8220;boys being boys.&#8221; As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42190/walsh-5-reasons-why-gillettes-toxic-masculinity-ad-matt-walsh">outlined</a> by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh, the ad is wildly problematic, stereotyping men and depicting a culture which does not reflect the reality we live in.
Moreover, increasingly in the media, we&#8217;ve seen traditional masculinity smeared as &#8220;toxic.&#8221; As <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/masculinity-not-toxic-stop-blaming-men-everything/">noted</a> by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, writing at National Review, society can fall into serious trouble if &#8220;manhood altogether&#8221; is denied.
&#8220;[I]n a society that denies manhood altogether, that denies men&#8217;s special protective and creative role in society &#8212; or worse, categorizes masculinity as mere violence &#8212; it&#8217;s easy to fall into a simplistic self-identification with toxic manhood. The age of emasculation cannot last,&#8221; Shapiro argued. &#8220;It will eventually boil over into violence, sink away into irrelevance, or return to the truth: that the male aggressive instinct can be good but must be trained, not excised.&#8221;

Meryl Streep On Why She Rejects The Term ‘Toxic Masculinity’

Gender

On Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Andrew Klavan Show,&#8221; the host discusses Alyssa Milano&#8217;s attempt to bully the state of Georgia into canceling a Pro-Life bill. Transcript and video below.
Is this country going to be socialist? Is Donald Trump wrong? You know I think Trump is not a guy who&#8217;s on either side of this. He&#8217;s not a guy who plays to the moral card and he&#8217;s not a guy who plays the principal card. He&#8217;s a guy who plays the reality card. He says, look I made the economy better. You have a job now. Vote for me. You know. That&#8217;s what he says. He says this will work, I&#8217;ll do this. He doesn&#8217;t really consult a set of principles; he consults his gut. And so far, he&#8217;s doing a good job. You know he&#8217;s doing a really good job. I&#8217;m impressed. I didn&#8217;t think he was going to be this good. I think he is. But I do think that there are people, the people who write, the people who think, the people who talk who have to remind people what our principles are who have to remind us of what our values are.
That we value freedom &#8230; We value the freedom of the other guy, the guy we disagree with. We can value the freedom of a gay person and also value the freedom of the cake baker who does not want to attend his wedding and celebrate that wedding for religious reasons. We have to celebrate his freedom because if we don&#8217;t celebrate the freedom of the people we disagree with, we&#8217;re only celebrating power. If we don&#8217;t celebrate the freedom of the people, we disagree with we&#8217;re only celebrating power. Because when he&#8217;s in power, when he&#8217;s got the gun, when he&#8217;s got the government, what argument have you got left that&#8217;s going to keep him from taking your freedom away? These principles defend us all. They defend us left and right the principles defend us all and that&#8217;s what makes them more moral than the moral faux pas of the moment. That is what makes the arguments so much deeper than the events of the moment. And then the issues of the moment. That&#8217;s why we shouldn&#8217;t let politics make us stupid.

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You know, just as a perfect example, of the way this morality stuff blows up on people, take a look at what&#8217;s happening in Hollywood, my hometown. Take a look at this new boycott. This is what&#8217;s her name, Alyssa Milano, and 49 other celebrities threatening to boycott Georgia. Why are they threatening to boycott Georgia? Because Georgia is trying to pass a heartbeat bill that will outlaw abortion the minute a heartbeat can be detected. And this includes guys like Sean Penn. And what a moral man is he, right? As the guy who still hasn&#8217;t apologized to Venezuela. He still has not apologized for Hugo Chavez.
And by the way, if you&#8217;re holding your breath waiting for the Sean Penn apology tour, you can forget it. I mean this is the Hollywood that Harvey Weinstein once said remember this Harvey Weinstein said &#8220;Hollywood has the best moral compass because it has compassion. We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe&#8221;. Now think about this. This is Harvey Weinstein talking. He was talking at the time that Roman Polanski; remember old Roman Polanski had been detained in Switzerland? Why? Because he was a fugitive from justice. Roman Polanski raped a 13-year-old girl. He drugged her; he sodomized her. And then when he knew he was going to have to pay the price for it, he left. He fled the country. So, there is no statute of limitations on that, there&#8217;s no statute of limitations for fugitives right? Because he never paid the price. So, when he got picked up in Switzerland it was Harvey Weinstein. It was Meryl Streep. It was Woody Allen. They all showed up with their petitions now.
By what right do these people come after Georgia? Well you know. By what right do they use the incredible power of the economy to crush these people&#8217;s right to self-governance? Where is the morality in that? But nobody&#8217;s even arguing about that principle, we&#8217;re arguing about abortion. But this isn&#8217;t about abortion. It is not. I mean you know how strongly I oppose abortion but that&#8217;s not what it&#8217;s about. It&#8217;s about the right to Georgia to self-governance. It&#8217;s about the right to Georgia&#8217;s self-governance.
The only reason Hollywood comes to Georgia to make its movies is because this town is so lefty, so unionized, that they can&#8217;t afford to make the movies there. So, they go to Georgia so they don&#8217;t have to pay the unions when they&#8217;re making their movie about how great unions are. I mean that&#8217;s really true. They go to Budapest to film things, so they don&#8217;t have to pay the teamsters while they&#8217;re making a movie about Norma Rae and how wonderful it is that she unionized the shop. That&#8217;s the problem with these moral arguments is the people who are making them are no better than anybody else. It&#8217;s only the fact that their finger is pointed, distract you from them and puts the onus on the other guy. If we make the argument for our values, if we make the argument for our principles, if we make the argument that through our principles, we will reach a higher stage of progress and morality, I think we can win this fight, but the outcome is by no means certain.
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KLAVAN: Take A Look At The New Hollywood Blacklist

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All politicians are egomaniacs and narcissists. They&#8217;re all searching for love and adulation &#8212; even (or especially) from strangers. And they&#8217;re all pathological &#8212; and prolific &#8212; liars.
The Washington Post has been keeping track of President Trump&#8217;s lies. As of December 21, Trump had &#8220;made 7,645 false or misleading claims over 710 days,&#8221; the Post wrote. President Obama was a prodigal liar, too &#8212; although the Post never bothered to tally up all his lies.
They&#8217;re all liars. Every last one of them. Take this lie, told just Monday by Sen. Kamala D. Harris, California Democrat. The 2020 hopeful was trying to be hip and cool, so she said she smoked weed back in college, chilling with friends and listening to Snoop Dogg and Tupac. But she graduated in 1986. Tupac didn&#8217;t release his first album until 1991, and Snoop&#8217;s first record hit the shelves in 1993.
Then there&#8217;s Sen. Elizabeth Warren. For decades, the Massachusetts Democrat and the 2020 candidate claimed she was American Indian, putting the designation on all sorts of employment and government forms. But a DNA test she took to prove it showed she&#8217;s 98.4 percent to 99.9 percent white. So, liar.
Politicians sometimes tell completely pointless lies. It&#8217;s like the joke by comedian Norm MacDonald: &#8220;You ever lie for no reason at all? Just all of sudden, a big lie spills out of your evil head? Like a guy will come up to you, &#8216;Hey, did you ever see that movie with Meryl Streep and a horse?&#8217; And you go, &#8216;Yes.&#8217; In the back of your head, you&#8217;re like, &#8216;What in the hell am I lying about over here? I stand to gain nothing by this lie.'&#8221;
Like Sen. Cory Booker, another presidential candidate. The New Jersey Democrat often cited a guy named &#8220;T-Bone,&#8221; a drug dealer, saying he once told him, &#8220;If you ever so much as look at me again, I&#8217;m going to put a cap in your ass.&#8221; Turns out he &#8220;was a &#8216;composite&#8217; of various people Booker knew in Newark,&#8221; <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/01/remember-t-bone-cory-bookers-imaginary-d">Reason</a> wrote this month.
Politicians lie especially to each other&#8217;s faces &#8212; even when they hate each other&#8217;s guts. &#8220;To my good friend from Arkansas, let me say&#8230;&#8221; one senator will bluster, even though it&#8217;s clear he can&#8217;t stand the guy. &#8220;With all due respect to the gentle lady from Missouri, whom I greatly admire, I must say that &#8230;&#8221; another will say, even though privately he loathes her.
Trump is changing all that. He doesn&#8217;t pretend to like someone he clearly hates, even if he has to work with them on important issues. He calls Warren &#8220;Pocahontas.&#8221; To the Democratic House speaker, he tweeted: &#8220;Nancy Pelosi has behaved so irrationally &amp; has gone so far to the left that she has now officially become a Radical Democrat.&#8221; And he makes no pretense of being able to stomach Senate Minority Leader &#8220;Cryin&#8221; Chuck Schumer.
Members of his own party &#8212; and even his Cabinet &#8212; are not immune: &#8220;Who should star in a reboot of &#8216;Liar Liar&#8217; &#8212; Hillary Clinton or Ted Cruz?&#8221; he said, referring to the Texas Republican senator whom he defeated in the 2016 primaries. Of his former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Trump tweeted: &#8220;The Dems all hated him, wanted him out, thought he was disgusting &#8212; UNTIL I FIRED HIM! Immediately he became a wonderful man, a saint like figure in fact. Really sick!&#8221;
Trump has even taken aim at one of the most famous actresses in the world. &#8220;Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn&#8217;t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a Hillary flunky who lost big.&#8221;
The former reality TV show host is making other politicians get real. During Trump&#8217;s State of the Union address, Pelosi acted just how she feels: She mockingly applauded Trump &#8212; and liberals nationwide loved it.
Newcomer Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is also part of The New Honesty. On Monday, she said Trump is &#8220;a man who can&#8217;t even read briefings written in full sentences.&#8221; She deeply detests Trump, and she says so. That is because Trump, who also abhors Ocasio-Cortez, has made no bones about his feelings.
So Trump &#8212; the crude and petty and vindictive little man &#8212; has done at least this: He has gotten rid of the false camaraderie that has colored so much of politics for eons.
And in the end, that&#8217;s really not a bad thing.

* A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.

CURL: President Trump Might Just Be The Most Honest Politician Ever

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Charles Schumer

Cory Booker

Jeff Sessions

Kamala Harris

Nancy Pelosi

Norm MacDonald

Snoop Dogg

Meryl Streep, the acclaimed actress and outspoken feminist who once infamously declared Harvey Weinstein a &#8220;god,&#8221; really detests Donald Trump &#8212; and that antipathy continues to win her praise among her equally Trump-adverse Hollywood colleagues, including late-night host Stephen Colbert.
In January 2017, Streep announced herself as one of the many leaders of the Trump resistance by using her Golden Globes acceptance speech (video below) as an opportunity to rip the president-elect, who responded by calling her &#8220;one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.&#8221; Since then, Streep has taken every opportunity to denounce the president to her peers&#8217; delight.
At the annual Montclair Film Benefit last week, Colbert, who organized and hosted the event, wasted no time time giving Streep opportunities to rip Trump, introducing the actress by reading in mock-Trump voice his &#8220;over-rated&#8221; tweet. The tweet, said Colbert, was &#8220;perhaps the greatest honor she has ever been given,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/meryl-streep-why-people-should-be-afraid-trump-star-is-born-1167842">The Hollywood Reporter</a> notes.
Colbert brought up the president again later in the 2-hour interview, asking, &#8220;What&#8217;s it like for you to see somebody who is the President of the United States who is the top politician who is indifferent to the idea of empathy? I&#8217;m not sure he knows what you mean when you say it.&#8221;
Streep responded by saying she was genuinely &#8220;scared&#8221; of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;possibility.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m scared. I&#8217;m scared by him, by his possibility,&#8221; she said, THR reports. &#8220;And I do empathize with him. I can&#8217;t imagine what his 3 a.m. is like. There&#8217;s a gathering storm &#8212; everyone feels it, he feels it. His children are in jeopardy, and I feel that. I think, &#8216;What if my children were in jeopardy?&#8217; I would do anything &#8212; anything &#8212; to get them out of trouble. So we should be afraid. That&#8217;s what I think.&#8221;
She also worked in a shot at Trump over his comment during the campaign about having &#8220;the best words.&#8221; She said she once considered taking the LSATs because, &#8220;I had the best words! I know more &#8230; than the generals!&#8221;
Streep&#8217;s regrettable Weinstein-as-&#8220;god&#8221; comment came during another famous Golden Globes speech from 2012 in which she praised the since-disgraced producer for promoting left-wing causes. During the height of the Weinstein scandal in 2017, Streep came under fire, including from other actresses, for defending her promotion of Weinstein by claiming that &#8220;not everybody knew&#8221; about his alleged chronic mistreatment of women:
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One thing can be clarified. Not everybody knew. Harvey supported the work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally. I didn&#8217;t know about these other offenses: I did not know about his financial settlements with actresses and colleagues; I did not know about his having meetings in his hotel room, his bathroom, or other inappropriate, coercive acts. And If everybody knew, I don&#8217;t believe that all the investigative reporters in the entertainment and the hard news media would have neglected for decades to write about it.
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Among those who rebuked the excuse was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22096/meryl-streep-not-everybody-knew-about-weinstein-james-barrett">Jessica Chastain</a>, who tweeted, &#8220;I was warned from the beginning. The stories were everywhere. To deny that is to create an [environment] for it to happen again.&#8221;
In case you missed Streep&#8217;s much-lauded on the left 2017 Golden Globes speech attacking the soon to be sworn-in Trump, below is the video and full transcript (via <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/meryl-streep-donald-trump-golden-globes-speech">Vanity Fair</a>):
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Please sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You&#8217;ll have to forgive me. I lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this week. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said: You, and all of us in this room, really belong to the most vilified segment of American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners, and the press.
But who are we? What is Hollywood, anyway? It&#8217;s just a bunch of different places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey, Viola was born in a sharecroppers cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Amy Adams was born in Vicenzia, Italy, and Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and was raised . . . in Ireland, I do believe, and she&#8217;s here nominated&#8212;for playing a small-town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.
So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick &#8217;em all out, you&#8217;ll have nothing else to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.
They gave me three seconds to say this, so: An actor&#8217;s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us, and let you feel what that feels like, and there were many, many, many powerful performances that did exactly that: breathtaking, compassionate work. But there was one performances this year that stunned me; it sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job&#8212;it made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth.
It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter&#8212;someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can&#8217;t get it out of my head because it wasn&#8217;t in a movie; it was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it&#8217;s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, filters down into everybody&#8217;s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.
Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. O.K., go on with it.
O.K., this brings me to the press: We need the principled press, to hold power to account, to call them them on the carpet for every outrage; that&#8217;s why our founders enshrine the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only asked the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we&#8217;re gonna need them going forward, and they&#8217;ll need us to safeguard the truth.
One more thing. Once, when I was standing around on the set one day whining about something&#8212;we were going to work through supper, or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?&#8221; Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art. Thank you.
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Meryl Streep, Stephen Colbert Keep Bringing Up ‘Scary’ Trump At Film Event

Stephen Colbert

Two of Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s biggest pals, Oprah Winfrey and Meryl Streep, have joined other Hollywood celebrities in penning an open letter to world leaders about the importance of gender equality.
&#8220;Dear World leaders,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/oprah-winfrey-meryl-streep-chadwick-boseman-stars-sign-gender-equality-letter-1113635?__twitter_impression=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reads</a>, according to The Hollywood Reporter, &#8220;We&#8217;re putting you on notice.&#8221;
The letter goes on to point out some important, pressing issues facing women in the world today, such as child brides and lack of education (all of which plague the Islamic world), while segueing into partisan-driven talking points like equal pay.
&#8220;For 130 million girls without an education,&#8221; the letter continues. &#8220;For one billion women without access to a bank account. For 39,000 girls who became child brides today. For women everywhere paid less than a man for the same work.&#8221;
Then the letter makes the asinine claim that &#8220;there is nowhere on earth where women have the same opportunities as men,&#8221; as if women all across the globe (including those in the West) live in some kind of gulag.
&#8220;The gender gap is wider for women living in poverty,&#8221; it continues. &#8220;Poverty is sexist. And we won&#8217;t stand by while the poorest women are overlooked.&#8221;
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You have the power to deliver historic changes for women this year. From the G7 to the G20; from the African Union to your annual budgets; we will push you for commitments and hold you to account for them. And, if you deliver, we will be the first to champion your progress.
We won&#8217;t stop until there is justice for women and girls everywhere.
Because none of us are equal until all of us are equal.
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The international charity ONE has sponsored this gender equality for four years now. Other signatories were Reese Witherspoon, Amy Schumer, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Portman, Mariska Hargitay, Mindy Kaling, Neil Patrick Harris, and Yara Shahidi.
&#8220;The fight for gender equality does not stop in our own backyards,&#8221; ONE <a href="https://www.one.org/international/blog/poverty-is-sexist-campaign-letter-signers-2018/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> in their blog post, &#8220;and the conversation must include the girl denied an education in South Sudan, the farmer not allowed to own the land she works in Uganda, and the woman not allowed to bank the money she earns in Chad.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re living through an incredible moment in history and surrounded by inspiring examples of what is possible when people come together and stand up for what they believe in.&#8221;

Oprah, Meryl Streep Lecture World Leaders About Gender Equality

Gender Wage Gap

Oprah Winfrey

Meryl Streep is finally speaking out against Harvey Weinstein — but only to defend herself from allegations made by Weinstein&#8217;s lawyers that she defended him in public after he was accused of harassing, raping, and abusing dozens of women.
Streep&#8217;s claims of friendship and innocent camaraderie with Weinstein, made just after the first wave of Weinstein allegations, are coming back to haunt her, thanks to Weinstein&#8217;s response to a lawsuit filed against him by six women who say he lured them into hotel rooms and empty offices only to make sexual demands, force himself on them, or demand they watch him masturbate,<a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/meryl-streep-calls-out-weinstein?utm_term=.tsAgvp27xO#.uw5XMyGBdK"> according to Buzzfeed</a>.
<a href="https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1711939/meryl-streep-released-a-statement-about-harvey-weinstein-and-their-years-working-together">Streep issued a lukewarm statement</a> just days after the first allegations surfaced, after reporters began to question what she knew, or could have known, in her decades of friendship with the Miramax head and Hollywood mega-producer. She told media that &#8220;Harvey supported [my] work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally.&#8221;
Weinstein apparently took that as a full-throated defense, and his lawyers incorporated it into their response pleadings, using Streep&#8217;s exact words — that Weinstein &#8220;had always been respectful to her in their working relationship&#8221; — as evidence that Weinstein was a target of conspiracy, rather than a guilty player.
Streep, now a leader of the Hollywood anti-harassment movement and vocal supporter of &#8220;Time&#8217;s Up&#8221; (she even bravely wore black on a red carpet), lashed out.
&#8220;Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys’ use of my (true) statement — that he was not sexually transgressive or physically abusive in our business relationship — as evidence that he was not abusive with many OTHER women is pathetic and exploitive,&#8221; Streep said in her statement to Buzzfeed.
That&#8217;s rather convenient, of course. Both Streep and fellow big name Democrat Oprah Winfrey are longtime friends of Weinstein, and based on how widespread rumors of Weinstein&#8217;s sexual impropriety appear to have been, it&#8217;s next to impossible that neither had ever heard of Weinstein&#8217;s alleged sexual assaults. But Streep, like Winfrey, is now trying to hide that fact behind a veneer of political activism, claiming she&#8217;s always been on the forefront of a pro-women movement in Hollywood.

Meryl Streep FINALLY Lashes Out At Harvey Weinstein — After He Quotes Her In His Defense

Sexual Abuse

Sexual Misconduct

Actress and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/30/brave-rose-mcgowans-memoir-details-by-harvey-weinstein">Harvey Weinstein accuser</a> Rose McGowan on Wednesday night <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/rose-mcgowan-alyssa-milano-meryl-streep-thoughts-hollywood/story?id=52751291">blasted</a> Hollywood for facilitating a &#8220;rape factory.&#8221;
Asked about Alyssa Milano, her former Charmed co-star and a #MeToo movement darling, McGowan didn&#8217;t hold back, suggesting Milano is merely helping to generate &#8220;good press&#8221; for an implicated Hollywood agency whom her husband works for.
&#8220;Your former Charmed co-star, Alyssa Milano, gets a lot of credit for helping &#8216;Me Too&#8217; go viral,&#8221; Juju Chang said during an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Nightline.&#8221;
&#8220;So?&#8221; replied McGowan.
&#8220;Are you proud of her?&#8221; asked Chang.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t like her,&#8221; the 44-year-old replied, stone-faced. &#8220;&#8216;Cause I think she&#8217;s a lie.&#8221;
McGowan then suggested Milano, whose husband works for massive Hollywood talent agency, Creative Artists Agency (<a href="http://www.caa.com/">CAA</a>), is complicit in a cover-up of sorts concerning sexual harassment within the industry.
&#8220;Do you think I don&#8217;t know these people?&#8221; McGowan said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not looking at this from the outside. I have a lot of experience. I know [Milano is] married to a CAA agent. Do the math. Who&#8217;s behind Time&#8217;s Up? CAA. Where do they meet? CAA. Who needs good PR? CAA. Who are part of the pimp problem? CAA.&#8221;
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Milano released a statement to Nightline saying she supports McGowan.
&#8220;I am and always have been completely supportive of Rose and admire her bravery and speaking out about her experiences,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My goal throughout the past few months with both #MeToo and the TimesUp movement has been to use my platform to give others a voice so we can all work together to stamp out sexual harassment and sexual assault.&#8221;
But McGowan wasn&#8217;t finished with stating her views on Hollywood&#8217;s phony Feminist Royalty; she also took on actress Meryl Streep, whom she&#8217;s also called &#8220;a lie&#8221; in the past.
&#8220;It&#8217;s just more of, like, she&#8217;s the establishment,&#8221; McGowan said of Streep.
&#8220;Maybe she didn&#8217;t know. Maybe she lives in such a rarefied ether that she did not know,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Maybe she lives in such a perfect world that she didn&#8217;t have to. But that&#8217;s not my world.&#8221;
&#8220;I think a lot of people just filed it under &#8216;he does stuff to women,'&#8221; she added.
McGowan says Weinstein raped her in January 1997. More than 90 women have come forward to accuse the producer and Democratic mega-donor of sexual misconduct.
Streep has claimed that she was unaware of the alleged rape. &#8220;What happened to Rose is unbearable. I have nothing but empathy and hope that she finds a way to heal. I really do,&#8221; she said.
Watch the interview, below:
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WATCH: Rose McGowan SLAMS Feminist Darling Alyssa Milano: ‘She’s A Lie’

Sexism

Imagine it&#8217;s late 2011. The world just found out about Jerry Sandusky, former assistant Penn State football coach who would be convicted of repeatedly raping children in 2012. Penn State higher-ups, in an attempt to turn the focus of the scandal away from the school, decide to turn an annual banquet into a celebration of those fighting child rape. They call up head coach Joe Paterno. They call up President Graham Spanier. They call up athletic director Tim Curley. All of them give long, brave speeches about the evils of sexual exploitation of children resulting in rousing applause from all the Penn State boosters. All the attendees wear pins showing their solidarity with molestation victims. The event is nationally televised.
You&#8217;d be disgusted, wouldn&#8217;t you? You&#8217;d think to yourself, &#8220;Perhaps it isn&#8217;t a good idea for a school that just became nationally renowned for one of the worst sex scandals in modern American history to preach about its commitment to the kiddies.&#8221;
Now fast-forward to 2018. It&#8217;s been only a few months since we found out that Hollywood megaproducer Harvey Weinstein allegedly raped multiple women, sexually abused other women and sexually harassed still more women. Each day, more and more prominent men are caught up in the net of #MeToo, the national movement to listen to the stories of abused women: Matt Lauer, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Rose, Russell Simmons, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrew Kreisberg, Louis C.K., Ed Westwick, Brett Ratner, Dustin Hoffman, Jeremy Piven, Danny Masterson and James Toback.
Yet on Sunday, Hollywood held itself a festival of virtue-signaling at the Golden Globes. All the women dressed in black in homage to the victims of a sexual harassment epidemic that has plagued Hollywood since the inception of the casting couch. The men wore &#8220;Time&#8217;s Up&#8221; buttons to show solidarity. Oprah Winfrey, who was once quite close with Weinstein, gave an emotional speech in which she likened modern-day victims of sexual abuse to a black woman raped by six white men in 1944 Alabama. The cameras cut away to Meryl Streep, who once praised Weinstein as a &#8220;god&#8221; and gave a standing ovation to accused child rapist Roman Polanski. The entire crowd cheered its goodwill approximately six years after the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave a lifetime achievement award to Woody Allen, who was credibly accused of molesting his own stepdaughter when she was 7 years old.
All of this was supposed to make us feel that Hollywood is somehow leading the charge against sexual aggression. But that&#8217;s simply not true. Hollywood isn&#8217;t doing anything to materially change its culture; it&#8217;s simply operating out of fear of public scrutiny. When the spotlight moves on, people in Hollywood will go right back to doing what they&#8217;ve been doing for years: exploiting people less powerful than them. Winfrey had nothing to say about sexual misconduct in Hollywood for 30 years, even though she was the Queen of All Media; treating her as some sort of beacon of light now is simply ridiculous.
America knows posturing when it sees it. And what we&#8217;re seeing now isn&#8217;t bravery.
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The Virtue-Signaling Anti-Virtue Crowd

In an F-bomb and myth-filled, blistering and at times pretty hilarious introduction to Meryl Streep at the National Board of Review Annual Awards on Tuesday, Robert De Niro made clear that, like the vast majority of his peers &#8212; particularly Streep &#8212; he hates the &#8220;f***ing fool&#8221; President of the United States.
De Niro began by congratulating Tom Hanks, whom he noted &#8220;has played opposite some of the most iconic figures in American cinema. In &#8216;Turner and Hooch&#8217; he co-starred with a humongous, slobbering French Mastiff. In &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; his nemesis was action figure Buzz Lightyear. And who could forget his award-winning performance in &#8216;Castaway,&#8217; opposite a volleyball named Wilson.&#8221;
De Niro then pivoted to Hanks&#8217; co-star in &#8220;The Post,&#8221; the formerly Harvey Weinstein-loving, permanently Trump-loathing Streep.
&#8220;That brings us to &#8216;The Post,&#8217; and another signature performance from the extraordinary Meryl Streep,&#8221; said De Niro. &#8220;Meryl is the most generous and giving actor. She not only inhabits her own character, she helps bring out the character of everyone else on the screen. Can a volleyball do that?&#8221;
That&#8217;s when De Niro worked in his first Trump reference.
&#8220;Not even if the volleyball was a stable genius,&#8221; he said in reference to Trump&#8217;s recent description of himself.
De Niro then made even more obvious what was already obvious to all who have heard anything about Streep&#8217;s new film: It&#8217;s really about Donald Trump.
&#8220;It was fascinating to watch &#8216;The Post,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;That story took place nearly 50 years ago, but there are many parallels with today obviously. At the time of the story Donald Trump was suffering with &#8216;bone spurs.&#8217; Today the world is suffering from the real Donald Trump.&#8221;
Then De Niro&#8217;s potty mouth got going.
&#8220;Come on. You know. What are we talking about?&#8221; he said. &#8220;This f***ing idiot is the president. It&#8217;s The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes &#8212; the guy is a f***ing fool.&#8221;
Calling the publication of the Pentagon Papers a &#8220;proud moment for American Journalism&#8221; in defense of the First Amendment, De Niro returned to slamming the &#8220;jerkoff-in-chief.&#8221;
&#8220;Our government today, with the propping [up] of our baby-in-chief &#8212; the jerkoff-in-chief I call him &#8212; has put the press under siege, trying to discredit it through outrageous attacks and lies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And again just like 1971 the press is distinguishing itself with brave, exacting journalism.&#8221;
After dropping that unintentionally hilarious line, he dropped a few more disparaging descriptors of Nixon/The Donald.
&#8220;The movie gave us glimpses of President Nixon as delusional, narcissistic, petty, vindictive, nasty and bats*** f***ing crazy. Ah the good old days,&#8221; he said.
De Niro then started spinning out gender talking points in his praise for Streep&#8217;s &#8220;courage,&#8221; namely the <a href="https://www.prageru.com/videos/there-no-gender-wage-gap">thoroughly debunked</a> 79 cent gender wage gap myth.
&#8220;But, astonishingly, today women are still struggling to get their rightful place and their fare share,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am still fighting for Meryl to be able to get 79 cents of what a man would get to play Catherine Graham. It&#8217;s shameful, I know.&#8221; (Full transcript below via <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5253711/Robert-Niro-launches-anti-Trump-rant-awards.html">Daily Mail</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/950940056801431558">Sopan Deb</a>.)
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Streep has repeatedly condemned Trump, including at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25499/streep-golden-globes-endorses-oprah-president-2018-james-barrett">Golden Globes in 2017</a> where she denounced him from the stage, a move lauded as &#8220;brave&#8221; by her fellow left-wing Hollywood celebrities. Here is the moment from her speech in which she unloaded on Trump:
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There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can&#8217;t get it out of my head because it wasn&#8217;t in a movie. It was real life.
And this instinct to humiliate, when it&#8217;s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody&#8217;s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
</blockquote>
Below is the full transcript of De Niro&#8217;s remarks (provided by <a href="https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/950940056801431558">Sopan Deb</a> via <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5253711/Robert-Niro-launches-anti-Trump-rant-awards.html">Daily Mail</a>):
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Thank you. First congratulations to Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks has played opposite some of the most iconic figures in American cinema.
In Turner and Hooch he co-starred with a humongous, slobbering French Mastiff. In Toy Story his nemesis was action figure Buzz Lightyear. And who could forget his award-winning performance in Castaway, opposite a volleyball named Wilson.
That brings us to The Post, and another signature performance from the extraordinary Meryl Streep.
Meryl is the most generous and giving actor. She not only inhabits her own character, she helps bring out the character of everyone else on the screen. Can a volleyball do that?
[Inaudible]
Not even if the volleyball was a stable genius.
It was fascinating to watch The Post.
That story took place nearly 50 years ago, but there are many parallels with today obviously.
At the time of the story Donald Trump was suffering with &#8220;bone spurs&#8221;. Today the world is suffering from the real Donald Trump. Come on. You know. What are we talking about?
This f***ing idiot is the President. It&#8217;s The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes &#8211; the guy is a f***ing fool.
The publication of the Pentagon Papers was a proud moment for American journalism. The Times and the Post challenged the government over critical First Amendment issues. And the press prevailed.
Our government today, with the propping [up] of our baby-in-chief &#8211; the jerkoff-in-chief I call him &#8211; has put the press under siege, trying to discredit it through outrageous attacks and lies.&#8217;
And again just like 1971 the press is distinguishing itself with brave, exacting journalism.
The movie gave us glimpses of President Nixon as delusional, narcissistic, petty, vindictive, nasty and bats*** f***ing crazy. Ah the good old days.
The movie and my friend Meryl Streep showed us the evolution of courage &#8211; Kate Graham was forced into a man&#8217;s world and showed the world and showed all those men something about the qualities of daring and devotion to public service &#8211; qualities that were thought of as male. No longer.
But, astonishingly, today women are still struggling to get their rightful place and their fare share.
I am still fighting for Meryl to be able to get 79 cents of what a man would get to play Catherine Graham. It&#8217;s shameful, I know.
The good news is that I think we&#8217;re at a watershed moment and it&#8217;s about time. There are many to thank for that, but tonight is for Meryl Streep.
Meryl, thank you for speaking out on matters of conscience that affect us all. Thank you for being an actress who plays the most interesting characters with full commitment and without judgement.
You show us their heroism as well as their imperfections.
And I know that&#8217;s a stretch for you &#8211; because Meryl doesn&#8217;t seem to have any imperfections. And I say that with the most love for you, Meryl. I love you so much. Ladies and gentlemen, the National Board of Review&#8217;s best actress&#8230;
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Robert De Niro Unloads On Trump In F-Bomb-Filled, Partly Funny Intro For Meryl Streep

Trump Administration

The word &#8220;bravery&#8221; has been used to describe Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s Golden Globes speech on Sunday evening &#8212; a speech seen as the potential launching point for Winfrey&#8217;s White House run. What, exactly, did Oprah do? She said that sexual harassment was bad, in front of a crowd of Hollywoodites shamed into saying the same after decades of participating in it.
Oh, the courage!
It wasn&#8217;t just Oprah: actor after actor stepped to the microphones and virtue signaled about the lack of female power in Hollywood. They all wore black dresses in solidarity with sexual abuse victims, and spoke in support of Time&#8217;s Up, a movement to end such abuse. All of which is great! Except that watching Hollywood decry sexual abuse feels like watching NFL executives decry concussions: these people have been making bank on a town that thrives on sexual abuse. Watching them fete themselves for their newfound heroism is galling, to say the least.
During Oprah&#8217;s speech (she of the multiple pictures kissing Harvey Weinstein), we watched a cutaway to Meryl Streep (she of &#8220;God, Harvey Weinstein&#8221; fame and the standing ovation for Roman Polanski). If that doesn&#8217;t say all that needs to be said about Hollywood, nothing does.
But we&#8217;re supposed to cheer Hollywood for its newfound wokeness. We&#8217;re supposed to pretend that their message of empowerment has nothing to do with being caught with their hands up skirts. We&#8217;re supposed to believe that these thoughtleaders who cheered Woody Allen just six years ago when he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes should continue to be our thoughtleaders on issues of protection against sexual abusers.
Spare me.
How about, instead, a little humility? How about a few apologies for doing and saying nothing? How about a little guilt? How about Meryl Streep, instead of leading the charge for Oprah for president, saying a few words about her relationship with Weinstein and how she wishes she had evidence to speak up sooner? How about a special appearance by Rose McGowan, who lost her career thanks to Weinstein, and who led the #MeToo movement before any of these successful actresses came forward with their own stories?
But no. We&#8217;ll instead be treated to talk about Hollywood&#8217;s stunning bravery yet again. Because no matter the question, the answer is always the same: our celebrity overlords are always right, even when they&#8217;re egregiously wrong.

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