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   The Devil Wears Prada (film)

   Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway), an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University, lands the magazine job "a million girls would kill for": junior personal assistant to icy editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), who dominates the fashion world from her perch atop Runway magazine. ... Streep played along with a stern expression before smiling.
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   Diane Keaton

   In the film she played Louise Bryant, a journalist and repressed housewife in 1917, who flees from her husband to work with radical journalist John Reed (Beatty), and later enters Russia to locate him as he chronicles the Russian Civil War. ... Meryl Streep played her estranged sister Lee, although had initially been considered for the role of Bessie.
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   Karen Silkwood

   She now decided to go public with this evidence, and made contact with a New York Times journalist prepared to print the story. ... Meryl Streep played the title role.
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   UK miners' strike (1984–1985)

   The satirical Comic Strip Presents episode The Strike (1988) depicts an idealistic Welsh screenwriter's growing dismay as his hard-hitting and grittily realistic script about the strike is mutilated by a Hollywood producer into an all-action thriller starring Al Pacino (played by Peter Richardson) and Meryl Streep (played by Jennifer Saunders).
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   Pierce Brosnan

   He played Sam Carmichael, one of three men rumoured to be the father of lead Amanda Seyfried, while Streep played her mother. ... ↑ "Pierce Brosnan to Romance Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia!
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   Miss

   The senator played by Tom Cruise addresses a senior journalist played by Meryl Streep.
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   Adaptation.

   Meryl Streep as Susan Orlean: A journalist and author from The New Yorker.
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   Lions for Lambs

   With a title that alludes to incompetent leaders sending brave soldiers into the slaughter of battle, the film takes aim at the U.S. government's prosecution of the wars in the Middle East, showing three different simultaneous stories: a congressman who launches a new military strategy and details it to a journalist, two soldiers involved in said operation, and their college teacher trying to re-engage a promising student. ... | Starring | Robert Redford Meryl Streep Tom Cruise |
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   Bette Davis

   Davis explained her viewpoint to a journalist, saying "I knew that, if I continued to appear in any more mediocre pictures, I would have no career left worth fighting for." ... | Preceded by Meryl Streep for Holocaust | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie 1979 for Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter | Succeeded by Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker |
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    Anna Wintour

    She left the magazine in 1975 after chronic disagreements with new editor Min Hogg, whose job Anna herself had vied for, and relocated to New York with yet another older boyfriend, freelance journalist and playboy Jon Bradshaw. ... ↑ Scott, A. O. ; June 30, 2006; "In The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep Plays the Terror of the Fashion World"; The New York Times; retrieved February 7, 2007.

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• The Devil Wears Prada (film),
• Diane Keaton,
• Karen Silkwood,
• UK miners' strike (1984–1985),
• Pierce Brosnan,
• Miss,
• Adaptation.,
• Lions for Lambs,
• Bette Davis,
• Anna Wintour