Meryl Streep might not be the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, but she is a national treasure, and seeing as how today is her 63rd birthday, it seemed like as good a time as any to take a look back on how bangin she looked in high school. I love her acting ability AND her healthy-looking legs (that's important). Also relevant, her thoughts on the modern movie industry from her 60 Minutes profile last month:
SAFER: Do you think movies are getting better than when you started?
STREEP: I think the acting's better. I think the acting is better than in the "classic" days, frankly.
SAFER: If you look at the movies that are being made, the big movies that are being made, are... about comic strips--
STREEP: Oh I don't see those.
SAFER: --or vampires, or gross behavior - all aimed at 18-year-old boys.
STREEP: That's called the narrowing of the audience. The movie business has worked assiduously to discourage you, and other intelligent, discerning people, FROM the theater. They have worked hard to get rid of you, because you don't go and then buy toys and games.
I loved The Avengers as much as the next nerdy blogadouche, but I get excited pretty much every time an actress gives an interview where she isn't all, "Waaaah, I used to be so awkward!" Yeah, it's called adolescence, bitch, for some of us it lasts a lifetime.
Mmm, pearls. This is what chicks from Jersey looked like in the sixties. I can't help but think we've gone backwards as a society. Or at least that New Jersey has.
Draaaaama club! The guy behind Meryl would later be the subject of the country's first restraining order.
The pretty ones don't have to wear costumes.
See? I told you about the legs.
If there's a lesson here, kids, it's that you shouldn't be afraid to dream big, provided you're a ridiculously photogenic homecoming queen with an MFA in drama from Yale. Meanwhile, if movies have taught us anything, it's that she probably got to be so popular by being super bitchy to everyone.
[via 60 Minutes and TresSugar]
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Many of the boys at her school said she had one of the nicest smiles they had ever come across.
I would’ve stalked the shit out of her in the 60′s
Pretty blonde … vivacious … Many talents … Where the boys are
It was such a much more pleasant and genteel age, see how nicely they went about calling her a total slut?
She looks a solid 10-15 years older in that first picture than in the other ones.
a 6 at best. Honestly, it’s amazing what passed for hot 40 years ago…
I would have to disagree. I’m often amazed at what passes for hot in our generation; boyish, tit-less, waifs. It’s as if our society has been transported back in time to ancient Greece, when guys actually fucked little boys, instead of dressing their women up like them.
I mean, every time I hear someone call Christina Hendricks fat, I want to slowly saw through their spinal chord with a blunted knife. But then again, I do have anger management issues.
Please Sir, your virginity is showing.
Totally would bang Miss Streep btw
Dingus, Streep is more like your description – thin, flat, nothing flashy or shapely about her.
meanwhile Hendricks is a huge modern sex symbol. See also Kate Upton. Clearly, you’re trying to play the part of the minority for some reason, when in fact, your arguments validity has passed by some years.
60s chicks were pretty hot. The 70s was also good decade. the 80s sloped in my opinion. the fashion was just wrong. The 90s thing were still pretty rough too. it was picking up but those early years were terrible.
“Cool story, bro.”
I like how you preempted sarcastic indifference by putting it out there first.
Comic strips? Oh, Morley, you lovable old coot.
hehe, I saw a girl streep one tieem. she was beauuteeful and her eyes matched her peeeeeeeeee… nis.
Who gave her the pearl necklace?