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Meryl Streep and Martin Short Are Making This Way Too Much Fun
The Only Murders stars keep us guessing, and we’re all better for it.
There’s a frantic, nervous energy to the standard Meyers female romantic lead, whether it’s Cameron Diaz’s ditzy trailer editor in The Holiday or Diane Keaton’s overemotional playwright in Something’s Gotta Give. Meyers’s men have a kind of chaotic caddishness: They are embodied by Mel Gibson, Jack Nicholson, and Alec Baldwin (and yes, Steve Martin — but he was the geeky love interest in It’s Complicated, not the cool one). In an age in which we have access to so many celebrities all the time, Streep and Short, by posting their own versions of paparazzi pictures and controlling their own image with their own iPhones, have managed to do something old-fashioned in making the tabloids work for them.
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