The Hollywood Reporter says that Meryl Streep will be playing the Anna Wintour-inspired devilish boss in the movie of The Devil Wears Prada. Streep has already played another Conde Nast employee, New Yorker writer Susan Orlean, in Adaptation, so we can't wait until she plays Graydon Carter or Jeff Jarvis next (hey, she played a rabbi in Angels in America - she can probably do it!). We think that someone like Lara Flynn Boyle, with aging makeup, would be more physically like Wintour, but these are the movies and Streep can play insane well (see Manchurian Candidate, She-Devil, and Death Becomes Her). Streep does have experience playing people in journalism - she was a thinly veiled Nora Ephron (who wrote for Esquire) in Heartburn.
Gawker's Conde Nast archives: From cockroaches to cafeteria. Oh, and we still hates Lauren Weisberger.





ann magnuson played a wickedly good anna wintour type on anything but love.
I can't believe this book has turned movie! Can we say plot? The story line is so unoriginal like all other books written by 20-something year-olds who considers "In Style" magazine as reading material - - young girl graduates from college and works in the magazine/fashion industry looking for love in NYC...love those Prada shoes and Essie nail polish...whatever.