Meryl Streep To Star In 'Devil Wears Prada'
Fox announced late yesterday afternoon that Meryl Streep has signed on to play the role of icy fashion mag editor Anna Wintour Miranda Priestly in their film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger's bestselling novel about a fashion mag assistant who suffers at the hands of a sadistic editor-in-chief. In Real Life, Weisberger served as Anna Wintour's assistant, so unless you're missing a frontal lobe, you already know that the Priestly character is based loosely (or rather closely) on the Vogue editor.
And just like that — poof! — Meryl Streep is blacklisted from Condé Nast. No Vanity Fair Oscar Party, no profile in Architectual Digest, not even a charticle quote in Allure.
