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| The Devil Wears Prada � 2 Stars (Average) | | | | Miranda Priestly had such demands as "Find me that |
| Meryl Streep, one of Hollywood's best and most | | | | piece of paper I had in my hand yesterday morning." |
| honored actresses, carries The Devil Wears Prada like | | | | Steep played her role very well. |
| the namesake handbag we see early in this movie, | | | | Andy supposedly has a metamorphosis from a |
| which is about a powerful New York fashion | | | | na�ve, plain, simple girl into a trendy, elegant |
| magazine editor and her wannabe gofer. | | | | gofer, and manages to do so with the help of Nigel |
| Streep, a graduate of Vassar and the Yale School of | | | | (Stanley Tucci), the magazine's art director. |
| Drama, has 13 nominations for an Academy Award, | | | | In the end, she ditches the job when she realizes |
| more than any other actor. Streep has 10 | | | | that life without her boyfriend, her friends and family |
| nominations for Best Actress and 3 for Best | | | | are not worth the price of being exclusive. Her career |
| Supporting Actress. | | | | move into the fashion world pushes people out of |
| She won Oscars for Kramer vs. Kramer (Best | | | | her life as her career demands suck time away from |
| Supporting Actress) and for Sophie's Choice (Best | | | | all her other relationships. |
| Actress). | | | | She ends up getting a job offer as a journalist with |
| In The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestly (Streep) is | | | | the New York Mirror, a real newspaper that ceased |
| the editor of Runway fashion magazine (modeled | | | | publishing in 1898. |
| after Vogue). She hires Andy Sachs (Anne | | | | I want to believe this film has a more serious |
| Hathaway), a recent journalism grad, to be her new | | | | message about commitments by young adults, but |
| gofer. Andy supposedly wants this opportunity to | | | | Andy slinks back to her live-in boyfriend, who has |
| grovel for an iron-willed, focused Miranda who would | | | | secured a new position as a sous-chef in another city. |
| intimidate her favorite pet if she had one. | | | | The film does not make it clear whether Andy goes |
| In her new job Andy does not write a memo much | | | | with her boyfriend, stays in New York with her new |
| less a news story. She picks up Miranda's cleaning and | | | | job, or visits him in his new digs when she wants |
| coffee and fulfills other outrageous requests of the | | | | companionship. |
| spoiled editor who believes she is the cat's meow. | | | | The ending of this movie is as lame as Andy's choice |
| The plot line involving Andy is specious in that no | | | | of a new job as a gofer. |
| serious journalist would ever work for a Miranda | | | | A successful person of substance does not lead the |
| Priestly in the role of a gofer. She would rather work | | | | kind of life Andy leads, hence The Devil Wears Prada |
| for a weekly newspaper than the New York Times if | | | | becomes an average movie because it ignores a |
| she had to put with the crap that Andy had to put | | | | chance to make an even more important point about |
| up with. This is especially true of anyone with talent | | | | what is important in life, love and romance. |
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