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Christiane Amanpour Ellen Barkin Tina Brown
Patricia Clarkson Sofia Coppola Edie Falco
Billie Jean King Gayle King Fran Lebowitz
Parker Posey Jane Rosenthal Leelee Sobieski
Gloria Steinem Olivia Wilde
invite you to join them along with
Meryl Streep
at the New York premiere of
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
7:30pm – Screening
Ziegfeld Theater
141 W 54th Street
(Between 6th & 7th Avenues)
9:30pm - Party
Forty Four at Royalton
44 West 44th Street
(between 5th and 6th Avenues)
[email protected] or 212-935-6700
THE IRON LADY is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl
Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of
the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from
nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male
dominated world.
New York and Los Angeles release December 30th, 2011
Meryl Streep
Phyllida Lloyd
Olivia Wilde
Alexandra Roach
Harry Lloyd
Mamie, Grace & Louise Gummer
Anne Hathaway
Sofia Coppola
Leelee Sobieski
Ellen Barkin
Wren Arthur, Stanley Tucci
Coco Rocha
Gloria Steinem
Roger Waters
Hope Davis
Natasha Lyonne
Alan Cumming
Gina Gershon
Renn Hawkey, Vera Farmiga Christiane Amanpour
Anna Chlumsky
Fran Lebowitz
Yaya Dacosta
Behati Prinsloo
Geoffrey Fletcher
Amanda Setton
Rachel Roy
Paul Haggis
Henry Joost
Patricia Clarkson
Anna Deavere Smith
Sophie Auster
Chriz Benz
Carrie Maclemore
Alice St Clair, Alistair Banks Griffin
Zac Posen
Arden Wohl, Leelee Sobieski Kaylee Defer, Erin Fetherston
Abi Morgan, Damian Jones, Phyllida Lloyd
Lily Rabe
The Iron Lady’ Bows in New
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By: Matt Lynch/ Wednesday, December 14 2011
The Weinstein Co. premiered its latest bit of awards season bait built around the
real-life tales of the British ruling class on Tuesday night at the Ziegfeld Theatre
in New York. This year’s edition is “The Iron Lady,” a Margaret Thatcher biopic
that presents the former British prime minister’s life in a series of episodic
flashbacks. Meryl Streep’s turn as Thatcher has, of course, earned the actress
some early Oscar buzz. A number of notable filmgoers, such as Anne Hathaway,
Ellen Barkin, Gloria Steinem and Parker Posey, turned out to get a glimpse of the
performance, which lends quite a bit of humanity to the sometimes strident
leader.
As she briefly tread the red carpet at the Salvatore Ferragamo-sponsored
premiere (nodding to Thatcher’s style in an Asprey of London pendant and
earrings), Streep fielded a question about how the former prime minister might
handle England’s rather isolationist positioning amid the ongoing euro zone
crisis.
“That’s waaaay above my pay grade, babe,” Streep laughed before riffing on
Thatcher’s confidence of conviction. “I don’t know. But there was a period in the
world before extensive polling sort of drove the political conversation [when]
there was a little bit of clarity. You knew who you were dealing with when you
dealt with her, whether you liked it or not.”
After the movie, the crowd navigated the 10-block journey to Forty Four, the bar
and restaurant at the Royalton Hotel in Midtown.
A little before midnight, Hathaway was on her way out the door on the arm of
new fiancé Adam Shulman.
“Witnessing it was a gift,” the actress said of Streep’s performance. “She left me
speechless and I think the Oscar race is done.”
Well, maybe not quite yet.
A few addresses east of the Ziegfeld, the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday
played host to a Cinema Society screening of another awards season contender,
the Glenn Close gender-bender, “Albert Nobbs.”
The actress originally starred in a stage production of “The Singular Life of Albert
Nobbs” in 1982, and has spent parts of the last 15 years trying to have the work
adapted to the screen. So it made sense that she sounded a little satisfied.
“I believe in this story,” Close, who also co-wrote the screenplay said. “It’s funny,
it’s heartbreaking.…It’s unexpected. Wildly unexpected. The talent that we had
involved.…I’m very happy with it.”
The film takes place in 19th-century Ireland. Close plays a woman living in
disguise as a man largely for economic reasons, but feeling all the expected
emotional repercussions. The crowd at the showing and subsequent party at the
Armani Ristorante included Close’s daughter, Annie Starke, Lauren Bacall, Lou
Reed, Patti Smith, Francesco Clemente and Debbie Harry.
Rose Byrne and Mia Wasikowska, who co-stars with Close, laid on a pair of
black-velvet-covered chaises in the middle of the crowded restaurant. Tony
Danza held court at the bar and tussled affectionately with Paul Haggis.
“It was a very beautiful world [the world of the film], and Glenn was amazing in it,”
Danza mused of the film. “Totally transformed. But I’m not sure, actually, that I
bought her as a man…maybe she should have had a beard?”
Toward the end of the evening, Sinéad O’Connor took to the microphone for a
surprise musical performance. Courtney Love headed for the exit, friend in tow.
“Where is the Monkey Bar in relation to here?” Love asked. “Let’s go.” One
partygoer watched her exit and sighed, “Well, it’s over when the bald lady sings?”
Grace and Mamie Gummer
Anne Hathaway
Coco Rocha
Stanley Tucci
Iron Ladies
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By: James Reed Hague/ Wednesday, December 14 2011
Meryl Streep walked into New York City’s Ziegfeld Theatre last night amid a
thousand flashes from a crowd of photographers calling out her name. “I’m
absolutely exhausted!” the actress admitted, laughing as she noted that this was
only the beginning of a long press tour for her latest film, The Iron Lady—a tour
that will undoubtedly take her all the way to the red carpet of the Kodak Theatre
for the Oscars in February.
“When I was writing the script, I had Meryl on my mind of course—but I never
thought we’d actually get her,” screenwriter Abi Morgan said. It’s hard to imagine
any other actress capable of the transformation required to play Margaret
Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of the United Kingdom and one
of the century’s most influential, if not controversial, leaders. “Of course
politicians get labeled,” the actress added. “But ultimately, it’s about a human
journey.”
After the screening, guests journeyed ten blocks downtown to the Royalton
Hotel, where Olivia Wilde (in Dolce & Gabbana) and the newly engaged Anne
Hathaway were among those lounging on brown leather banquettes sunken in
front of a roaring fire. Coco Rocha turned heads in a glittering Zac Posen dress
and sipped on a signature Iron Lady cocktail made with Veuve Clicquot. Asked
whether she had given Ms. Streep any tips for her Vogue cover shoot, the model
looked shocked: “I wouldn’t know what to say—she’s already absolutely
amazing!”
Curtsying Before A Queen
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By: Bee Chang/ Thursday, December 15 2011
The after-party for "The Iron Lady," Meryl Streep's latest movie, at the Royalton Hotel on Tuesday
MARGARET THATCHER led Britain as its prime minister once upon a time, but
it’s Meryl Streep who lords over Hollywood. And in a show of her unimpeachable
reign, Ms. Streep attracted an impressive stream of loyal subjects for the
Tuesday premiere of “The Iron Lady,” her latest Oscar vehicle, in which she stars
as Ms. Thatcher.
“Meryl is the Elvis of acting,” Alan Cumming declared.
But unlike the King, who would probably pose for a photo op, Ms. Streep arrived
minutes before showtime and practically skipped the red carpet. Covered up in a
blue long-sleeve top and black maxi skirt, she seemed bored with the media
hoopla. When cornered, she took a worldly, sage view of her character. “There’s
always secrets, there’s always reasons for how people behave,” she said.
“People are a lot more complicated than monstrous or saintly.”
Her less-seasoned co-stars were understandably more wide-eyed. “This was my
first feature and my first premiere,” said Alexandra Roach, who played young Ms.
Thatcher in the film. “And it’s my first time in New York. It’s a lot of firsts right
now,” she said, breathing sharply in her Burberry frock with fitted bodice.
Inside the velvet-lined theater, a chatty crowd hobnobbed boisterously. Ellen
Barkin, with her hair in a bob, turned her head around and cooed, “Hi, beautiful,”
as Olivia Wilde sauntered down the aisle. Nearby, Sofia Coppola paused to catch
up with Suno’s Max Osterweis, whose seatmate and business partner Erin
Beatty was discussing the prefall collections with Prabal Gurung, a fellow fashion
designer.
At the concession stand, Regis Philbin, popcorn in hand, was fielding
congratulations on his retirement. His tip for surviving the rush before Christmas
was mildly ribald. “Stick with it,” Mr. Philbin said. “Before you know it, Santa’s
clothes will be in your lap.”
A movie later and nearing 10 p.m., the crowd flocked to the after-party at the
Royalton Hotel. Passing hotel guests stopped to gawk (or crash), while over
Champagne, mini cheeseburgers and a buffet of grilled prawns, ravioli and green
beans, filmgoers debated the highlights. “I loved the first scene — you could
barely recognize her,” Natasha Lyonne said. “It had that Meryl seamlessness.”
Ms. Streep found her way to a sunken lounge in the long lobby. There, flanked by
her daughter Mamie Gummer, Stanley Tucci, Ms. Barkin and Anne Hathaway,
her co-star in “The Devil Wears Prada,” she held court in the power vortex for a
couple of hours.
As the party wound down to midnight, there were future celebrations to discuss.
Ms. Hathaway, newly engaged, showed off a sparkling emerald-cut diamond ring
with a girlish giggle. There was a wedding to plan, but also a coming vacation.
“The location is top secret,” she said coyly. “Well, actually I was lucky one of my
friends invited me last minute. It’ll be good to just get out of town.”
Oscar Hopefuls’ Rival Premieres
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By: Mike Vilensky/ Thursday, December 15 2011
Glenn Close and Meryl Streep, two apparent front runners in the Best Actress
Oscar race, held movie premieres in New York on Tuesday evening, luring highprofile crowds to parties held only a few blocks away from one another.
At the Museum of Modern Art, the Cinema Society and Giorgio Armani, with
Sandra Brant and Ingrid Sischy, hosted a screening of "Albert Nobbs," in which
Ms. Close stars as a woman passing as a man in 19th-century Ireland. The film
is directed by Rodrigo García, the son of Colombian writer Gabriel García
Márquez.
Naturally, cross-dressing was a topic of conversation at the after-party, held at
Armani Ristorante. "I had to wear a dress for a music video one time," said
singer Lance Bass. "It was a music video we only did in Germany in, like, 1996.
I had to dress up as a Spice Girl—the whole band did it. I never did it again, and
nobody ever saw it."
An Armani representative said the brand supported the film as a result of its
longstanding relationship with Ms. Close, and had no comment on the 19thcentury fashions featured in the movie.
Guests, including Courtney Love and Sean Avery (who said he has never crossdressed), ate "pass-arounds" like tuna tartare and mini-lobster rolls.
One point for Team "Nobbs": singer Sinead O'Connor performed "Lay Your
Head Down," a song she wrote for the film, while Lou Reed cheered her on.
Meanwhile, at the Ziegfeld Theatre, the Peggy Siegal Company and Salvatore
Ferragamo hosted the premiere of "The Iron Lady," in which Ms. Streep plays
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Whereas "Nobbs" co-stars Mia Wasikowska as its young ingénue, "Iron Lady"
co-stars the up-and-coming Alexandra Roach as a young Ms. Thatcher. "I
admired her drive and ambition and what she overcame," said Ms. Roach, of
her character, at the after-party held inside Forty Four at Royalton. "Her
steeliness."
Ms. Roach added that she only researched her character's life before the age of
33. "Real people don't know what's going to happen to them," she noted.
Director Sofia Coppola and magazine editor Tina Brown were among the
parade of well-wishers.
Of course, the same party-seeking New Yorkers migrated from one fête to the
other. "It seems really inappropriate to go see the Glenn Close movie and then
come over here," said actress Natasha Lyonne, laughing.
Streep, Close in close thpremieres
By: Ian Mohr/Thursday, December 15 2011
Oscar contenders Meryl Streep and Glenn Close had dueling premieres just
blocks from each other Tuesday for their films “The Iron Lady” and “Albert
Nobbs.” Streep’s movie debuted at the Ziegfeld, while Close’s screened at
MoMA. “I think it’s great we’re coming out together,” Close told us of the rival
premieres. “I have huge respect for Meryl, and the movies are so incredibly
different. You know she’s one of the world’s great actresses, so you know I think
it’s a great night for both of us.” Streep arrived at a Royalton after-party behind a
high-powered host committee including Christiane Amanpour, Ellen
Barkin, Sofia Coppola, Gayle King, Gloria Steinem and Olivia Wilde. Also
there were Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci. Harvey Weinstein quipped,
“I’ve always felt a connection to Margaret Thatcher. I think we’re very similar.
We’re both very patient, as long as we get what we want.” Close’s Cinema
Society screening drew Mia Wasikowska, Viola Davis, Lauren
Bacall, Elizabeth Olsen and Angela Bassett. Sinead O’Connor asked an aide
to bring her a takeout hamburger during the screening. She arrived at the Armani
Ristorante after-party barefoot, and performed a song from the film’s soundtrack.
Spies said CAA uber-agent Kevin Huvane “looked miserable” because he reps
both stars and was spotted scurrying multiple times between parties. But Huvane
must have cheered up yesterday when both were nominated for best actress
SAG Awards.
Meryl Streep sees human side of ‘Iron Lady’ Margaret
Thatcher
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By: Frank DiGiacomo/ Thursday, December 15 2011
Meryl Streep put it better than we could. At the premiere of “The Iron Lady” on
Tuesday night, we told Streep a hallmark of her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in
the movie was that she managed to humanize a political figure who’d often been
reviled in black-and-white terms. “We do this to our leaders. We cast them as
monsters,” she said. “You know, Nixon’s a monster, Reagan is a whatever we
thought of him, Bush is this.” The Oscar winner added that this was a “very
reductive” way to look at power. “People are very much more complicated than
monsters or saints,” she said.
After Streep and daughters Mamie, Grace and Louisa Gummer walked the red
carpet, the quartet headed to the Royalton Hotel for the after-party. At one point
we caught Streep, 62, doing a wild, Macarena-like dance with her head thrown
back in laughter. The group left after midnight.
‘Lady’ & the champ
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By: Tatiana Siegel/ Thursday, December 15 2011
Meryl Streep
Grace and Mamie Gummer
Abi Morgan and Phyllida Lloyd flank "Iron Lady" producer Damian Jones
A movie premiere is an odd place to launch a political career, but that didn't stop
"The Iron Lady" helmer Phyllida Lloyd from throwing her weight behind Meryl
Streep. "Meryl for president!" Lloyd enthused before the film's Gotham premiere
Tuesday at the Ziegfeld.
Streep, who nailed Britain's polarizing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, said
she prefers to reserve her political ambitions for the bigscreen. "Over my dead
body!" she quipped of Lloyd's suggestion. Still, if she did decide to take a run at
office, the decorated thesp has a unique platform: "My platform would be heels. I
would run on platform heels. They're much better than stilettos."
Screenwriter Abi Morgan summed up the film's appeal, particularly for the
preem's female-heavy crowd, which included trailblazers Billie Jean King, Gloria
Steinem and Christiane Amanpour.
"Meryl and I laugh and say it's 'King Lear' for girls," said Morgan. Meanwhile,
revelers ventured 10 blocks to the Royalton for an after-party, where the usual
blood pudding and meat pies were replaced with shrimp, burgers and grilled
veggies.
Star Turns
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By: Kristin Studeman/ Wednesday, December 14 2011
There are few actresses on the same playing
field as Meryl Streepand Glenn Close, and
coincidence or not, the two stars had dueling
premieres in New York last night for their roles
in The Iron Ladyand Albert Nobbs, respectively.
Streep fans including Anne Hathaway, Patricia
Clarkson, and Ellen Barkin turned up at the
Ziegfeld Theatre to catch the actress' portrayal
of Margaret Thatcher. "When I first met Meryl,
we went to see her in her New York apartment,
and I think I held my breath for about three
hours," the film's screenwriter, Abi Morgan, told
Style.com at the Veuve Clicquot- and Salvatore
Ferragamo-hosted screening. "Literally, it was
to the point where I had to lie down in the
elevator when we left, because it's just
incredible being with an actress of that caliber—
it's quite mind-blowing."
After the Cinema Society and Giorgio Armani-hosted Albert Nobbsscreening at
MoMA, guests including Viola Davis, Patti Smith, and Lou Reed were saying
the same thing about Close. "Her passion and dedication to her work is just
incredible, and it was especially crazy to watch her wear three hats: screenwriter,
producer, and actor, all at once," co-star Mia Wasikowska said. Close herself
admitted the road to becoming the superstar she is today wasn't all that easy: "I
was terrible at auditions," she said, referring to her original audition for the Albert
Nobbs musical. "But then I went to an acting coach, worked hard, and got better
at it."
Indeed. Both actresses received SAG nods this morning for their performances.
Anne Hathaway
Coco Rocha
Arden Wohl, Leelee Sobieski
Sofia Coppola
Harry Lloyd, Alexandra Roach
Abi Morgan
Olivia Wilde
Zac Posen
Alan Cumming
Fran Lebowitz
Sarah Cook, Phyllida Lloyd Renn Hawkey, Vera Farmiga
Patricia Clarkson
Gloria Steinem
Erin Fetherston
Ellen Barkin
Julia Dunstall, Behati Prinsloo
Harold Evans, Tina Brown
Thatcher vs. Nobbs, Round
2: Dueling Premieres
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By: Melena Ryzik/ Thursday, December 15 2011
Are you following the battle of the blondes royale between “Albert Nobbs” and
“The Iron Lady?” There was a moment when Lady Ironsides had pulled out
ahead, on account of a glamorous Vogue cover, but the Bagger will have to give
the latest edge to Nobbsy. Both vehicles – the Meryl Streep film in which she
plays Margaret Thatcher, and the Glenn Close passion project in which she plays
a male butler in Victorian Dublin – had screenings and glitzy afterparties on
Tuesday night. As promised, the Bagger showed at both events. But it was the
“Albert Nobbs” affair we returned to, and not just because Lou Reed and Patti
Smith were there to watch Sinead O’Connor perform barefoot. More on that later,
promise!
First, to the red carpet at the Ziegfeld Theater for “The Iron Lady,” where Ms.
Streep, in a long skirt and navy blouse, her hair half up, swept in late, after
everybody had already sung her praises, a party trick the Bagger will have to
remember.
“Obviously, we do have some great British actresses,” said Abi Morgan, the
screenwriter, who had Ms. Streep in mind to play Ms. Thatcher from the start. “I
just think physically she’s so like her, and she’s just my favorite actress,” Ms.
Morgan continued. “To actually get her on board, it’s like Christmas and birthdays
rolled into one.”
Phyllida Lloyd, the director, who worked with Ms. Streep on “Mamma Mia!,”
called making “The Iron Lady” “an extraordinary, life-changing adventure.”
“I felt we needed a superstar to play Margaret Thatcher, and she was one,” she
said, adding: “On some level, her being the outsider, in terms of coming into
Britain from the United States, gave a tension to the whole thing.”
Ms. Streep has talked about being interested in the project because of what it
says about women and power, so the Bagger asked Ms. Lloyd if there were any
similarities between being a female politician breaking ground in the 1980s and
being a female director in a male-dominated field today. “Unquestionably,” Ms.
Lloyd replied quickly. “Like, don’t get shrieky on the set, because everyone will
lose respect. Keep your voice centered. Bury the hysteria. For all women in the
workplace, don’t we all feel that?”
“Men can go crazy, get drunk, come into the office and be forgiven,” she
continued, “and women – if I’d gone mad on American like Alec Baldwin, and
refused to turn my phone off, Pathe” — the film production company — “would
probably have canceled my next budget,” she said. “I think you do have to be
better behaved as a woman to survive.”
Ms. Streep agreed with Ms. Lloyd. “We know this, girls,” she said, addressing the
pack of mostly female red carpet reporters. But though she talked admiringly of
Ms. Thatcher’s stamina, especially when speechifying – “she had the capacity to
go on and on and on and on, and on and on and on and just a moment I haven’t
finished yet,” Ms. Streep said, “she had a way of overriding interviewers that I’m
going to emulate for the rest of my life” – the film, a mainstay of the Weinstein
Company’s awards slate, isn’t really about power.
“It’s about being at the end of life and looking back on a big and turbulent life,
from the point of a very delicate, frail old lady,” Ms. Streep said. “The film is about
powerlessness. Don’t tell Harvey Weinstein.”
Women in Power: The Iron Lady
and The Lady
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By: Regina Weinreich/ Thursday, December 15 2011
Just as this year's Nobel Peace Prize winners -- three women (President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman) -- were announced,
this film season features two films, The Iron Lady andThe Lady. Both films focus
on women rulers, one, Margaret Thatcher, a hawk; the other Aung San Suu Kyi,
a dove who is in fact a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Both films reflect the steely
nerve it takes to lead, revealing there is no one stereotype for women heads of
state. In the parlance of the 1970's wave of feminism, they may be called "lady,"
but these ain't no white glove and pearls sporting eye candy, even if they are
wearing these accessories as Thatcher does.
Each of these films offers a view of domestic life, blissful supportive marriage,
and loss. It helps her image that Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady is Meryl
Streep, the actress who can do no wrong. Here, in aging makeup that makes
Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar look normal and natural, Streep smirks her way
through a signature stellar performance, the British prime minister making war in
the Falklands and making sure her lovely husband Dennis (Jim Broadbent)
wears a scarf in the damp London cold.
Talk about makeup miracles, as the young Thatcher, 24-year-old Alexandra
Roach from Wales had to wear a blond wig, a fake nose and teeth, all of which
prepared her for the go-getter role of Thatcher climbing the political ladder.
Tuesday's The Iron Lady premiere at the Royalton was like a Devil Wears
Prada reunion with Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci surrounding Streep. When
the waiter brought a platter of sliders, Streep lunged with the fierce attention to
food of her Julia Child combined with the glee of Mamma Mia.
The Academy will surely nominate Streep for Best Actress as the Golden Globes
have, along with Viola Davis and Michelle Williams, but Michelle Yeoh in The
Lady, another career-defining portrait, should also be named.
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (almost a clone in Michelle Yeoh) follows a legacy of
martyrdom, leaving Oxford domesticity with Michael Aris (a husband from heaven
played by David Thewlis) who championed her efforts to win democracy in
Burma, through her house arrests until he died of cancer. She was not at his
bedside, making a sacrifice no one should have to make after the heartless
regime not only arrested and tortured her followers but denied him visa after visa,
saying to her, You need to leave. We will put you on the next plane. Taking her
calm pacifist cues from Gandhi, Suu remains under house arrest in her
homeland.
At a screening this week at the Asia Society, The Lady, the latest film by director
Luc Besson, was introduced by Ang Lee and was followed by a Q&A with
Besson and Michelle Yeoh. To photograph some of Burma, the filmmakers
disguised themselves as tourists and shot some of the establishing monuments
and the gorgeous countryside. The dramatic parts were filmed in northern
Thailand where many Burmese refugees remain in exile. Besson took his actors
from this group, in particular one brutish soldier with a haunting angular face.
When Besson asked him if he could act, the man was not sure. But could he
mimic the actions of his country's military? The man replied, No problem. They
killed half my family.
Anne Hathaway & Olivia Wilde Support Meryl Streep at
‘The Iron Lady’ Premiere inth NYC
By: Leigh Bickley/ Wednesday, December 14 2011
Anne Hathaway came out to support her The Devil Wears Prada co-star Meryl
Streep at the NYC premiere of her new film The Iron Lady, which has already
scored her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for best actress!
And Anne, who flaunted her new engagement ring, wasn't Meryl's only celebrity
pal to hit the red carpet at the Ziegfeld Theater last night — Olivia Wilde, Vera
Farmiga and Leelee Sobieski all showed up, not to mention Meryl's hubby Don
Gummer.
Meryl plays Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, which is being praised as one of
the best films of the year. Other members of the cast, including Game of
Thrones star Harry Lloyd and Alexandra Roach, attended the premiere as well.
Meryl Streep, Don Gummer
Anne Hathaway
Harry Lloyd, Alexandra Roach
Olivia Wilde
Leelee Sobieski
Renn Hawkey, Vera Farmiga
Henry Joost
Most Ladies Kept it Simple at the
‘Iron Lady’ Premiere
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By: Elisa Lipsky- Karasz/ Wednesday, December 14 2011
Meryl Streep
Anne Hathaway
Coco Rocha
Leelee Sobieski
Watching Meryl Streep transform herself seamlessly into a British Prime Minister
— master an Upper Class English accent, change the tonality and pitch of her
voice, subtly imbue shades of unerring strength, obstinance, ambition and selfdoubt into one woman who was equal parts celebrated and reviled — is
something to see in "Iron Lady." Perhaps in reverence to Thatcher's position,
most ladies opted for more subdued looks for the red carpet at a viewing of the
film sponsored by Veuve Clicquot last night. The star of the show, Streep, paired
navy with black by Stella McCartney, while Anne Hathaway donned a sleek high
neck sheath and Leelee Sobieski was chic in a navy dress by Alaia. Bucking the
evening's trend, Coco Rocha went high-glamour in an off-the-shoulder gown by
Zac Posen. After all, there's always room for a little glamour — even in politics.
For even more glamour, see Georgia May Jagger play her part as the Iron Lady.
Last Night’s Parties
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By: Courtney McGowan/ Wednesday, December 14 2011
Veuve Clicquot & Salvatore Ferragamo Host The Premiere Of Iron Lady
Where: Ziegfeld Theater
Who was there: Guests included Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Harry Lloyd,
Alexandra Roach, Ellen Barkin, Paul Haggis, Chris Benz, Christiane
Amanpour, Prabal Gurung, Olivia Wilde, Arden Wohl, Fran Lebowitz, Zac
Posen, Natasha Lyonne, Coco Rocha, Stanley Tucci, Alan Cumming, Leelee
Sobieski and Gloria Steinem.
Anne Hathaway
Zac Posen
Coco Rocha
Olivia Wilde
Meryl Streep & Anne
Hathaway: ‘Iron Lady’ Premiere!
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Wednesday, December 14 2011
Meryl Streep
Anne Hathaway
Olivia Wilde
Meryl Streep hits the premiere of her new film, The Iron Lady, on Tuesday
(December 13) at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City.
The 62-year-old actress’s husband,Don Gummer, and her The Devil Wears
Prada co-star, Anne Hathaway, both came out to support Meryl on her big night.
Also pictured inside: Olivia Wilde hitting the Veuve Clicquot-hosted event
in Dolce&Gabbana.
FYI: Meryl, who graces the cover ofVogue’s January issue, is wearing Stella
McCartney’s silk pleated plisse blouse.
Biggest A-List Names In Hollywood Support Meryl
Streep at NYC Premire ofth ‘Iron Lady
By: Chloe Melas/ Thursday, December 15 2011
NYC’s most famous theater, the Ziegfeld, held one of the most star studded
premieres in NYC on Dec.13 and HollywoodLife.com was front and center
to capture it all!
Meryl Streep is one of Hollywood’s most beloved actresses and it was clear just
how much her fans and Hollywood colleagues admire her at the NYC premiere of
her new film Iron Lady. The gorgeous 62-year-old actress, who just graced her
first ever Vogue cover, looked radiant as she walked the carpet at the premiere
hosted by Veuve Clicquot & Salvatore Ferragamo.
Meryl gives an Oscar worthy performance as the United Kingdom’s first female
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher. Meryl, along with her three daughters walked
the carpet at the Weinstein Company premiere put on the Peggy Siegal
Company. But along with Meryl, was one of the most impressive guest lists
topped off with Hollywood’s most influential women: Christiane Amanpour,Ellen
Barkin, Anne Hathaway, Tina Brown, Patricia Clarkson, Sofia
Coppola, Billie Jean King,Gloria Steinem, Parker Posey, Fran Lebowitz,
and Olivia Wilde.
After the unbelievable film, guests made their way to the exclusive after party
held at the swanky Forty Four at Royalton to toast Meryl and her co-stars Harry
Lloyd, Alexandra Roach and directorPhyllida Lloyd.
You must see this film when it hits theaters Dec. 30!
The Iron Lady’ Storms NYC
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By: Nigel Smith \ Thursday, December 15 2011
Meryl Streep was joined by her husband, Don Gummer, Dec. 13, at the New
York premiere of "The Iron Lady." The Weinstein Company Oscar-hopeful
screened at the Ziegfeld Theater with Sofia Coppola, Edie Falco, Olivia Wilde,
Patricia Clarkson, Anne Hathaway and Ellen Barkin all in attendance. Streep,
along with the film's cast and crew, headed over to Forty Four at Royalton nearby
following the film to party the night away. Veuve Cliquot and Salvatore
Ferragamo sponsored the event.
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By: Michelle Ruiz/Thursday, December 15 2011
IRON LADIES HOLD COMPETING PREMIERES
Meryl Streep premiered her Margaret Thatcher biopic “The Iron Lady” Tuesday
night at New York’s Ziegfeld Theatre, while fellow iron lady Glenn Close debuted
her cross-dressing drama “Albert Nobbs” at the nearby Museum of Modern Art.
Close drew Viola Davis, Mia Wasikowska and newly marriedSinead
O’Connor to her post-premiere bash at Armani Ristorante, but Streep outshone
her with the likes of Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Sofia Coppola, Ellen
Barkin and Olivia Wilde at Forty Four at the Royalton Hotel. Ambitious Gina
Gershon hopped from Streep’s soiree to Close’s.
Alexandra Roach, the Young ‘Iron Lady,’ Talks Streep
and Thatcher
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By: Nigel Smith/ Friday, December 16 2011
Alexandra Roach and “The Iron Lady” director Phyllida Loyd
Newcomer Alexandra Roach had big shoes to fill for her feature film debut. In
"The Iron Lady," the Welsh actress portrays Margaret Thatcher in her younger
years, before the divisive, pearl-loving figure became Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom (and Meryl Streep). Talk about pressure.
"When I was cast, I thought this would be intimidating with Meryl Streep
attached," Roach said at the New York premiere of the Weinstein release on
December 13. "But all that disappeared as soon as I met Meryl. She's so open,
kind and encouraging. She would watch me on set, but she was so calming.
She'd just give me a wink every now then, a little thumbs up."
Asked whether she sympathized with Thatcher, Roach said, "I’m an actress so I
wanted to play her as truthfully and as fully as possible. I was definitely not
judging her. We don’t agree on a lot of things, but when I was filming at the
Houses of Parliament and I had all these older men around me in dark suits, it
kind of struck me what she did for women, what she did as a woman. She came
from a humble background. To come from that and have ambition and drive, just
knowing what she wanted out of life, you cant help but admire that."
Roach next apprears in Joe Wright's anticpated adaptation of "Anna Karenina"
starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law.
The same night "Iron Lady" premiered at the Ziegfeld, Glenn Close's passion
project "Albert Nobbs" screened nearby at a glam event hosted by the Cinema
Society and Giorgio Armani. Below find pictures from the dueling premieres.
A whole lotta love for Meryl
at the ‘Iron Lady premiere
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By: Julie Gordon/ Thursday, December 15 2011
It was a family affair at the premiere of Meryl Streep's film "The Iron Lady" at the
Ziegfeld Theater on Tuesday.
Streep's daughters - Mamie, Grace and Louisa Gummer - and hubby Don
Gummer all came out to support Streep, who was nominated for a Screen Actors
Guild Award Wednesday for playing famed British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher in the biopic.
Post-premiere, the family headed to Forty-Four at the Royalton for the Veuve
Clicquot-sponsored after-party - except for Louisa, who had to skip it because
she is "under 21," a source told us.
Streep's "Devil Wears Prada" co-star Anne Hathaway also attended with fiancé
Adam Shulman.
"They were holding hands and looked really happy," a source said of the couple.
’Iron Lady’ Meryl Streep: ‘Lucky
To Be Working’
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By: David Weiner/ Wednesday, December 14 2011
Meryl Streep channels former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the
new biopic The Iron Lady, and at Tuesday night's NYC premiere, the
refreshingly modest Oscar favorite told ET that her role choices are not
calculated to win awards.
"You take the roles that are wonderful, challenging, hard," explained Meryl,
adding humbly, "I'm just really lucky to be working."
In limited release December 30, The Iron Lady chronicles how a determined
woman was able to break through the barriers of gender and class to make her
mark in a male-dominated political environment in the Reagan-era 1980s.
"I'm so proud of the movie … and I'm excited to show it to my friends, and to
show it to New York," said Meryl.
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd The Iron Lady also stars Jim Broadbent, Olivia
Colman, Nicholas Farrell, Anthony Head, Harry Lloyd and Richard E. Grant.
The film opens in wide release January 13.
A handprint ceremony
featuring four fingers
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Thursday, December 15 2011
Meryl Streep, who portrays former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in
the upcoming biographical film “The Iron Lady,” attended the film’s New York
premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City on Tuesday.
Meryl Streep brings
her soft side to the red carpet
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Wednesday, December 14 2011
Two-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep attends the New York premiere of her new
film ''The Iron Lady.
Hot Pics
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Wednesday, December 14 2011
Anne Hathaway and fiance Adam Shulman turned up at Tuesday's NYC
premiere of The Iron Lady (starring Hathaway's pal Meryl Streep).
Meryl Streep
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Wednesday, December 14 2011
In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, actress Meryl Streep is shown at the after party for the
New York Premiere of The Weinstein Company's "The Iron Lady."
Meryl Streep and
Dan Hedaya
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Wednesday, December 14 , 2011
In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, actress Meryl Streep, left, and Dan Hedaya pose at the
after party for the New York Premiere of The Weinstein Company's "The Iron
Lady."
Olivia Wilde
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Wednesday, December 14 2011
WHAT SHE WORE
Wilde hit the red carpet for the N.Y.C. premiere of The Iron Lady in a puff
sleeve Dolce & Gabbana dress and leopard print pumps.
Women in Power: The Iron Lady and The Lady
Just as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners, three women President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman, were announced,
this film season features two films, The Iron Lady and The Lady. Both films
focus on women rulers, one, Margaret Thatcher, a hawk, the other Aung San
Suu Kyi, a dove who is in fact a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Both films reflect
the steely nerve it takes to lead, revealing there is no one stereotype for women
heads of state. In the parlance of the 1970’s wave of feminism, they may be
called “lady,” but these ain’t no white glove and pearls sporting eye candy, even if
they are wearing these accessories as Thatcher does.
Each of these films offers a view of domestic life, blissful supportive marriage,
and loss. It helps her image that Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady is Meryl
Streep, the actress who can do no wrong. Here, in age-ing makeup that
makesLeonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar look normal and natural, Streep smirks
her way through a signature stellar performance, the British prime minister
making war in the Falklands and making sure her lovely husband Dennis (Jim
Broadbent) wears a scarf in the damp London cold.
Talk about makeup miracles, as the young Thatcher, 24 year old Alexandra
Roach from Wales had to wear a blond wig, a fake nose and teeth, all of which
prepared her for the go-getter role of Thatcher climbing the political ladder.
Tuesday’s The Iron Lady premiere at the Royalton was like a Devil Wore Prada
reunion with Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci surrounding Streep. When the
waiter brought a platter of sliders, Streep lunged with the fierce attention to food
of her Julia Child combined with the glee of Mamma Mia.
The academy will surely nominate Streep for Best Actress as the Golden Globes
have, along with Viola Davis, Michelle Williams, but Michelle Yeoh in The
Lady, another career defining portrait, should also be named.