Roles turned down by Meryl Streep

mrsmerylstreep:

• All the King’s Men
• Actor who got the part: Patricia Clarkson

• Batman Returns
• Actor who got the part: Michelle Pfeiffer

• Close Encounters of The Third Kind
• Actor who got the part: Teri Garr

• Coming Home
• Actor who got the part: Penelope Milford

• Cutthroat Island
• Actor who got the part: Geena Davis

• A Dirty Shame
• Actor who got the part: Tracey Ullman

• Evita
• Actor who got the part: Madonna

• Fatal Attraction
• Actor who got the part: Glenn Close

• The Firm
• Director Sydney Pollack intended to have Mitch McDeere (Cruise) have an affair with an older colleague, to be played by Meryl Streep.

• Frida
• Actor who got the part: Salma Hayek

• Heroes
• Actor who got the part: Sally Field

• The Hunt for Red October
• Actor who got the part: Gates McFadden

• I Love You to Death
• Actor who got the part: Tracey Ullman

• Man Trouble
• Actor who got the part: Ellen Barkin

• Nixon
• Actor who got the part: Joan Allen

• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Actor who got the part: Jessica Lange

• Pretty Baby
• Actor who got the part: Susan Sarandon

• Red
• Actor who got the part: Helen Mirren

• The Remains of the Day
• Actor who got the part: Emma Thompson

• Richard III
• Actor who got the part: Annette Bening

• RKO 281
• Actor who got the part: Brenda Blethyn

• Six Degrees of Separation
• Actor who got the part: Stockard Channing

• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Actor who got the part: Ann-Margret

• Sweet Dreams
• Actor who got the part: Jessica Lange

• Thelma and Louise
• Meryl & Goldie Hawn considered doing the movie together, but decided to do “Death Becomes Her” instead.

• Working Girl
• Meryl Streep was considered for one of the female leads.

I don’t know about any of the others, but do know that Six Degrees was made into a movie on the condition that Stockard Channing would play Ouisa.

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coconutmilk83:

Meryl Streep | Draw The Line

Do it! Sign the thing! Meryl says so!

When I go outside
Me: Why are you all so heterosexual

quick-meme:

That’s some last name you have there…

it’s got to the stage now

andtheloveyougaveme:

were i see Miranda Priestly and Meryl as two completely different individuals.

gif not mine.

SAME HERE!

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ihavesuchdoubts:

yesterdaysideal:

Rude. Meryl is a fucking babe.

WHAT EVEN.

I VERY RARELY GET PISSED, BUT THIS GETS ME PISSED. HOW DARE THEY. SHE LOOKS AMAZING. WHAT KIND OF EXAMPLE IS THIS FOR YOUNG GIRLS? DO THEY EVEN THINK BEFORE THEY WRITE SOMETHING?

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lassirenasbailanrock:

Emma Stone by Patrick Demarchelier for Vanity Fair

lastchance4sanity:

Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”

Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.

Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.

When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.” 

- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof 

FUCK YEAH

Stick 'em with the pointy end.: torayot: modmad: waffleguppies: trelela: doktorengine: What is...

whittletheworld:

torayot:

modmad:

waffleguppies:

trelela:

doktorengine:

What is eurovision?
I’ve heard people talk about it before and I feel really dumb because I have no idea what’s going on??

It’s a stupid song festival in Europe where one band/artist represents each country. It used to be one of the most important events, but now barely anyone cares about it.

EXCUSE ME MADAM

I BELIEVE WE MUST NOW FIGHT IN HOT AIR BALLOONS ABOVE LONDON

EUROVISION IS A TIME OF FUN AND HILARITY IN WHICH THE NATIONS UNITE TO WATCH GROUPS OF BRIGHTLY COLOURED IDIOTS PERFORMING SONGS THAT ARE CAREFULLY ENGINEERED TO BE THEEXACT OPPOSITE OF GOOD MUSIC

AND YOU HAVE TO TURN THE SUBTITLES ON BECAUSE THEY ARE INVARIABLY THE RESULT OF SOME POOR SOUL TRYING TO TYPE THEM IN REAL-TIME AND IT IS BASICALLY THE MUSICAL EQUIVALENT OF THOSE BOOTLEG MANDARIN LOTR SUBS

AND THEN THERE IS ‘VOTING’ WHICH MEANS ‘EVERYONE IN THE BALKANS GIVES EVERYONE ELSE IN THE BALKANS TOP SCORES AND EVERYONE IN WESTERN EUROPE PENALISES EACH OTHER FOR EVERY POLITICAL IRRITATION RECEIVED IN THE PAST YEAR’

AND YOU WATCH THE WHOLE TECHNICOLOUR FAILURE ON THE SOFA WITH SNACKS AND MST3K THE SHIT OUT OF IT AND IT IS GLORIOUS

The most perfect description of Eurovison I have ever laid eyes on.

BEHOLD. IT IS GLORIOUS.

TRUTH

ACCURATE!

(Source: soupengine)

BARTLET: That was excellent! We should do that once a week.
TOBY: Phil Baharnd?
BARTLET: I gotta get better at the names.

Look at the faces on these two men! I LOVE THEM!

(Source: blimeyjenna)