- Be your very best
- Be dramatically potent.
- ... then unexpectedly hilarious.
- Fake a new accent every hour.
- Imitate the dial tone on your phone.
- Run around like a joyful madwoman with your hands in the air, stopping only to kiss people.
- Run around like a joyful madwoman whilst singing your favorite ABBA song.
- Accentuate your WASPiness... (or fake it).
- Stay married to the same person for decades, confounding Hollywood protocol.
- Pretend your significant other is a sculptor, make them use their hands.
- Befriend Cher.
- Watch Kramer vs. Kramer again.
- Watch Angels in America again.
- Consider yourself overrated... "but not today!"
- Be highly quotable.
- Memorize the entire Miranda Priestley "Cerulean" monologue.
- Ask your best friends to call you "Mary Louise" for the remainder of the week.
- Stweep!
- Give to charities.
- Sing more spectacularly than is humanly fair considering all of your other talents.
- Watch Julia to see how it all began.
- Say "That's ridiculous" with a Polish accent all day.
- Visit Simply Streep and Meryl Streep Online.
- Idolize your mama.
- Make out with someone who looks like Robert Redford, Bobby DeNiro, Kevin Kline, Kurt Russell or Alison Janney
- Send mixed messages to someone who looks like Jeremy Irons
- Enjoy Silkwood all over again.
- Flash your left tit and laugh about it.
- Appreciate one of her rare underappreciated performances like the one in A Prairie Home Companion.
- Stare off into space while dreaming of that farm in Africa, the French Resistance, your life as a singer, Virginia Woolf, the drugs you wish you were on or that French Lieutenant who will never return.
- Wear a Vassar t-shirt.
- ...or Yale paraphernalia
- Pretend you've won an Oscar.
- ...and another.
- Pretend you've won a third since you deserve it.
- Polish Meryl's star at 7018 Hollywood Blvd.
- Stare at the sea provocatively whilst practicing "Obscure Melancholia"
- Speak highly of New Jersey
- Take your family white water rafting.
- Watch Out of Africa again (you haven't seen it since the 80s).
- Lighten the room when you walk in.
- End your conversations with a dismissive "that's all".
- Work towards making lots of "All Time Great" lists in whatever it is that you do.
- ...actually deserve the honor.
- Don't take yourself too seriously.
- Proclaim "the dingoes got my baby!"
- Have some cream of watercress.
- Mix a drink for your friends (or frenemies) and pretend it's an immortality potion.
- Be a legendary household name whilst avoiding any personal drama.
- ...stop to consider and then appreciate how truly difficult that is to do.
- Read up a little on the amazing Julia Child before Meryl's next picture Julie & Julia arrives.
- Take a hot bath and fantasize about Clint Eastwood.
- Make your significant other wash your hair outdoors.
- Play dress up like Sophie or Kate Gulden
- Be proudly liberal and politically active.
- Make the world a better place.
- Inspire future generations in your field.
- Raise talented children
- Age more spectacularly than a good wine.
- Share this tribute post & video with Meryl-loving friends!
THAT'S ALL.
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