Posts Tagged: Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep Shares Award Honors with Neil Diamond!

8, 2011 8:26am

Good times never felt so good, so good, so good.

Meryl Streep, an inarguable heavyweight champ of the big screen, is looking good to secure Oscar favor again this year for her role in the Margaret Thatcher bio-pic, “The Iron Lady.” While the film is being released in December to time with a campaign for Streep’s third gold statuette, Streep will also be receiving honors from Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center (hosted by none other than President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama).

While Paul McCartney and Oprah Winfrey received honors last year, this year’s honorees on December 4, 2011 include singer/songwriter Neil Diamond, cellist Yo Yo Ma, composer Sonny Rollins and singer Barbara Cook.

 

Forbes Releases Highest-Paid Actress List

6, 2011 7:00am

“Forbes” just announced its list of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood, the figures representing “an estimate for what each actress earned between May 1, 2010 and May 1, 2011.”

If you’d guessed any of the stars of “Desperate Housewives” you’d be out of luck, film actresses led the way, with the top four earning $116 million between them!

From 10 to 1, here is Hollywood’s honor roll:

10. Meryl Streep ($10 million)
9. Sandra Bullock ($15 million)
8. Cameron Diaz ($18 million)
7. Katherine Heigl ($19 million)
5. & 6. Julia Roberts & Kristen Stewart ($20 million each)
3. & 4. Jennifer Aniston & Reese Witherspoon ($28 million each)
1. & 2. Angelina Jolie & Sarah Jessica Parker ($30 million each)

To click through the full list with breakdowns of the roles each has played to land them in the Top 10, check out the Forbes list here.

Photo: Angelina Jolie at the Cannes Film Festival in May; images courtesy of image.net’s Stephane Kossman