Every American loves their national treasure, Meryl Streep, except Donald Trump.

Will this year’s Academy Award winners use their moment at the microphone to talk politics? Suzanne Harrington provides some inspiration and takes a look at the best – and worst – protest speeches.

President-elect Donald Trump has hit back at Meryl Streep, who made the Republican a big topic of her speech when accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

All the week’s entertainment news

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Margaret Jennings says with silver hair back in the spotlight, it’s an ageless style statement and a distinctive look many younger celebrities are embracing.

Ricki and the Flash (12A) opens with rock ‘n’ roll singer Ricki (Meryl Streep) addressing her adoring audience from the stage, 

Scream 2 star Sarah Michelle Gellar has led tributes to Nightmare on Elm Street director Wes Craven, who has died aged 76.

Margaret Jennings pays tribute to three-time Oscar winner, actress Meryl Streep, who has managed to eschew the typical Hollywood lifestyle and to keep her family life private.

A documentary about rape banned from airing in India received its US premiere at a star-studded event.

Leave it to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to turn some of Hollywood’s sorest subjects into punch lines.

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Anne Hathaway would "love" to appear in a sequel to 'The Devil Wears Prada'.

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres sent out a tweet during the Oscars last night, and it is now the most retweeted tweet ever.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Steve McQueen, and Gravity will be the big winners at the Oscars if a company which analyses social media continues its run of accurate predictions.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Steve McQueen and Gravity will be the big winners at the Oscars this week if a company which analyses social media continues its run of accurate predictions.

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Meryl Streep wants Katie Holmes to date her son.

Meryl Streep has blasted Walt Disney for being a "gender bigot".

SEX is for the young. That’s the message we are drip fed by the media.

POLITICS is rock ’n’ roll for the ugly, and the shucksters, bounders and bumpkins who hang about in Leinster House are a motley crew.

For years female Hollywood actresses went from vital, sexy, powerful roles to playing scheming mothers, witches, or Driving Miss Daisy-type characters once they turned 40.

She was Britain’s first female leader, a strong woman who battled her way to the top of a male-dominated political system — but don’t call Margaret Thatcher a feminist.

A Taiwanese television news station has apologised for airing footage of Queen Elizabeth II while reporting the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

Meryl Streep wants a cameo in 'Anchorman: The Legend Continues'.

Meryl Streep and Jean Dujardin will present gongs at this year's Oscars.

Cinema audiences are ageing and film companies are gradually ackn

The ailing sex life of the over-fifties is not a subject often played out on the big screen, but, says Will Lawrence, charting unknown landscapes is nothing new to Meryl Streep.

Meryl Streep thinks women do more to keep relationships happy than men because they "want them to work".

The mother of a baby snatched by a dingo at an Outback campsite 32 years ago is praising former critics who now admit they were wrong to have accused her of murder.

Lindsay Lohan has been jailed and blacked by film directors, but are her parents to blame? asks Suzanne Harrington

Actress Julia Roberts has revealed how she views Meryl Streep as a role model when it comes to raising a family while in the public eye.

The Oscars were a safe, predictable affair, with the winners who’ve heard their names throughout awards season being called up on stage one last time.

Meryl Streep picked up the third Oscar of her career today on a night when Hollywood made a big noise about a silent film.

Meryl Streep has won the Best Actress Oscar for ‘The Iron Lady’.

Some of the biggest names in Hollywood have paraded down the red carpet ahead of the 84th Academy Awards.

Hollywood’s finest have started to arrive on the red carpet in advance of tonight's Oscars awards show.

Pundits are divided on whether Meryl Streep or Viola Davis will win the Best Actress Oscar tonight.

For a silent movie, The Artist is generating a lot of noise.