meryl streep

At 66, she refuses to phone it in.

Two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep has kissed a lot of lips throughout her celebrated career but when she visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show Thursday the acting maven couldn’t discern whose lips were whose when Ellen flashed photos of her costars on the screen. Golden Globe nominee for The Iron Lady Meryl has played lesbian in Woody Allen’s 1978 film Manhattan and in the 2002 film The Hours, in which Alison Janney played her partner. But Meryl has had a few more ladies in her life than merely in those two films.

Luminaries, friends and colleagues of Meryl Streep paid homage to the decorated thespian at the Kennedy Center Honors Tuesday night, and for Streep’s fans the tribute is just a delight from start to finish. Actress, singer and comedian Tracey Ullman opened the tribute, ribbing Meryl a bit about her inability to accept praise, followed by Meryl’s three-time costar Robert DeNiro and her four-time director Mike Nichols. The actress has played lesbian twice on film in Woody Allen’s Manhattan and in The Hours.

Oscar nominations were announced early Tuesday. The list of nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards are lesbian favorite Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker and Avatar. 2010 Oscar nominees for Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe and Meryl Streep. Best Supporting: Maggie Gyllenhaal joins Penelope Cruz, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick and Mo'Nique. View complete list... 

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We love these two together!

Talk about making my Grinch heart grow two sizes – or more – at the holidays. This photo of Meryl Streep and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Kennedy Center Honors just makes me happy and warms my heart. It’s not the first time these titans have hung out together – Meryl paid tribute to Hillary in a funny and generous speech earlier this year.

The Iron Lady star becomes the iconic mag's oldest cover girl.

Two-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep is arguably poised to win her third Academy Award for portraying Margaret Thatcher in out lesbian director Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, and The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the titans, Streep and Lloyd. Lloyd, a renowned theater director in the UK, has been repeatedly named to The Independent's gay power list.

Sure, Meryl Streep is arguably the best actress in the business, but can she make an oatmeal recipe sound sexy? Can she make a traffic report sound painful?

Three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep paid homage to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a witty, thoughtful and moving speech delivered at Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s third annual Women in the World Summit this weekend at Lincoln Center. Among the other luminaries on hand at the event were Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, Molly Melching, who’s been living and working in Senegal to end female genital mutilation, Gloria Steinem, Angelina Jolie, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Diane von Furstenberg and Oprah Winfrey.

A lot of popular music acts like to flirt with their gay fan base, but Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles is ready to go all the way. She talks about coming out stories from fans, her legal trouble with a former lesbian band mate, country music stereotypes, girl crushes and the phenomenon that is Glee.

Last week, Meryl Streep delivered a rousing and hilarious speech at a dinner for the Women’s National History Museum, urging folks to donate to the project and for Senators to burn the calories it would take to raise their hands and say “aye” to allow the group to purchase land to build the museum near the Mall. The House approved the bill last October but there continue to be two Senate hold-outs – Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who’ve held up the project based on funding, abortion politics and redundancy.