Meryl Streep turns 60 today (a birthday she happens to share with Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Billy Wilder, Mike Todd, Joseph Papp, Kris Kristofferson, Emmanuelle Seigner — and John Dillinger.)
Nat at The Film Experience comes up with “60 Appropriate Ways to Celebrate Meryl Streep Month” including these:
- 40. Watch Out of Africa again (you haven’t seen it since the 80s).
- 41. Lighten the room when you walk in.
- 42. End your conversations with a dismissive “that’s all”.
- 43. Work towards making lots of “All Time Great” lists in whatever it is that you do.
- 44. …actually deserve the honor.
- 45. Don’t take yourself too seriously.
- 46. Proclaim “the dingoes got my baby!”
- 47. Have some cream of watercress.
- 48. Mix a drink for your friends (or frenemies) and pretend it’s an immortality potion.
- 49. Be a legendary household name whilst avoiding any personal drama.
- 50. …stop to consider and then appreciate how truly difficult that is to do.
Surely we can come up with at least another 60 ways. How about,
- 61. Look very nice. Wear your cocksucker suit.
- 62. Have doubts! Have such doubts!
- 63. Need a Percodan right now. Or two, maybe three.
- 64. Be ageless.