The India Times News and Gossip section reports the famous actress Meryl Streep’s thoughts about being star-struck.
Hollywood actress Meryl Streep has admitted that the only person she has been star-struck by is US President Barack Obama.
Streep, 60, usually maintains her composure when she meets other actors she respects, but she has admitted that she was in awe of US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama when she went to White House.
“I went to the White House and was star-struck by our president and first lady. Although I was also impressed by Bruce Springsteen who was there as well,” said Streep.
The Nolanimrod admits to having some experience with star-struck and that was, coincidentally, with Bruce Springsteen. I was in a little uptown music club in New Orleans, The Maple Leaf Bar, one quiet Wednesday evening. A local blues group, The New Orleans Blues Department, was playing, and in walks Springsteen and his sideman, Nils Lofgren. Bruce said he’d heard the music was good and he and his group sat down to listen. The crowd at the Maple Leaf was pretty cool so left Springsteen’s group alone. Until the break. The band couldn’t stand it anymore so Bruce and the band members went out to the garden patio at the back and schmoozed. When they returned Springsteen and Lofgren got on stage with the band. Two of the band members turned their guitars over to the superstars and they went to work.
I don’t use the term superstar lightly. Bruce and Nils were standing on the same stage, using the same guitars, the same amps (and in fact the same drummer and bass player), as The New Orleans Blues Department. But it was an entirely different universe. I was about four feet away from Springsteen and as soon as he hit that first note and started to sing the room was filled with sound in a way it had never been and I was transported to a planet where the lights were very bright and the sound was so intense that one more note would crystallize the atmosphere and cause it to fall to the ground like shards of glass. Superstar.
On the other hand, whenever I hear Obama speak it either makes me embarrassed for him or sleepy.
To each his own, but if I had been with Obama and Springsteen (assuming Springsteen played music, and I can’t imagine he was there to rate the linen) if would be Obama was there as well.
Then we get to why she is so awed.
“I think it is thrilling to have someone who is thoughtful and can articulate with a certain amount of passion and dispassion, the necessary choices that we have in the world,” she said.
Passion and Dispassion. I’m trying to figure that. Would that be like Jeremiah Wright, frothing at the mouth, growling, even, as he reads from a position paper by the International Olympic Committee on the possible merits of making the foul lines on the discus field a little closer together? Planning, in a very cool, detached manner, the total destruction of your enemies: the Carthaginians, the Armenians, the Jews, the Kulaks, the city people? Stopping, during lovemaking, to wonder if you put food out for the neighborhood wild cats?
If you could actually define such a quality, why would it put you in awe?
And THAT’S why Hollywood uses screen tests.
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Well, I am dumfounded! Star-struck you say she was? Wow. When that star starts a’ falling down she will be struck some place it hurts.