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Jul 28 2010 04:02 PM ET

Meryl Streep and Tina Fey will indeed star together in a Stanley Tucci movie. Yes, please.

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Mommy-and-MeImage Credit: Insidefoto/PR Photos; Sylvain Gaboury/PR Photos (2)There are a few things that sends my Awesome-o-meter off the charts. The upcoming meeting of Willis, Schwarzenegger, and Stallone in The Expendables. A monkey riding a horse. This photo. And now the prospect of Meryl Streep, Tina Fey, and Stanley Tucci working together. Yes, that’s right — The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed talk that the two actresses are set to star together in the Tucci-directed comedy Mommy & Me.

Sure, it’s a softer, gentler trio than the Expendables group, but I think it could be equally exciting. The title leaves a little to be desired — strangely, it just makes me think of this — but what do you think, PopWatchers? Interested to see Fey and Streep share the screen?

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Jul 16 2010 12:42 PM ET

Tina Fey to co-star with Meryl Streep? Why, it's Fey's dream collaboration!

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The L.A. Times has an intriguing story today about Creative Artists Agency shopping around the tentatively titled Mommy & Me, a movie to be directed by Stanley Tucci starring Meryl Streep and Tina Fey. There’s no script yet — hell, there isn’t even a writer — so this project is just learning to crawl. But the idea of a Streep-Fey pairing with Tucci behind the lens a) fills me with joy; and b) jogged my memory about something Fey said when I interviewed her (with Steve Carell) for EW’s Date Night cover story in March.

When I asked Fey whom she still dreams of working with, she said, “Well, doesn’t every person dream of, like, Meryl Streep?” (Yes. I totally dream of Meryl Streep, even though I have no plans of ever starring in a movie.) Then she added, “I’d like to play Meryl Streep’s mother.” Now, a sane person would argue that she was just making a Tina Fey funny here. (Carell let out a big ole wallop of laughter.) But I think she was sending out a message to the universe, which Tucci soon picked up. The guy is so gonna grant Fey her wish with Mommy & Me. Biology be damned, the Emmy-winning actress is gonna play the Oscar-winner’s mama. And win an Academy Award for her efforts! It’s going to be the cinematic event of the century! The grosses will top Avatar!

Or, you know, Mommy & Me will just be a really funny movie and make a lot of us moviegoers very happy. Fingers crossed this cinematic magic will come to fruition. What do you think of Mommy & Me‘s potential for awesomeness?

Jul 1 2010 10:43 AM ET

Meryl Streep eyes Margaret Thatcher role: We'd be more impressed with Winston Churchill

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thatcher-streepImage Credit: James Fiedler Jr./The Washington Times/Landov; Sylvain Gaboury/PR PhotosOkay, Meryl Streep. I get it. You are an incredible actress — and you’ve got 16 Oscar nominations (and two wins) to prove it. Heck, your body of work over the last five years alone is more impressive than most thespians will manage in a lifetime: You made me howl as the hilariously bitchy Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, you made me tremble as the unrelenting Sister Aloysius in Doubt, and you made me want to quit my job and pursue a life of culinary excellence after seeing last summer’s Julie & Julia. (Did I mention I experienced a two-Kleenex meltdown following your rendition of “Goodbye to My Mama” in A Prairie Home Companion?)

Now comes word you’re close to signing on to play former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in a biopic from your Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd that will focus on the 17 days preceding the 1982 Falklands War. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 16 2010 02:08 PM ET

Death Becomes Lady Gaga...and Meryl Streep?

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Drop everything! This Facebook petition for a Meryl Streep and Lady Gaga collaboration needs 1,000,000 members, at which point the Academy Award-winning actress will immediately kneel down at the doorstep of the Haus of Gaga and ask where she should go to be fitted for a dog collar composed of tiny steaming waffles or something. If this somehow really happens, Streep should definitely reprise her role as actress Madeline Ashton in Robert Zemeckis’ 1992 dark comedy Death Becomes Her. Gaga would obviously become Lisle von Rhoman (Isabella Rossellini, semi-pictured), because she’s super sultry and the bearer of magical potions. You cannot tell me the following trailer isn’t a Lady Gaga video waiting to sneak up on/make out with you in a ladies’ prison.

Beyoncé can play Goldie Hawn’s Helen, and Bruce Willis’ character Ernest will receive the premium Skarsgard Your Loins upgrade as Alexander swoops in to reprise his role as “Boyfriend” in Gaga’s video for “Paparazzi”. I don’t see how this could possibly go wrong. Do you?

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