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Meryl Streep Makes Everything Sound Better


Meryl Streep scored another Oscar nomination this year, surprising no one.
This time, the Academy recognized Streep for her role in August: Osage County, in which she plays the prescription pill-addicted matriarch of a family with too many issues to list.
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Streep visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week to discuss the film and nomination news with the funny lady.
The talk show host took the opportunity to truly test the famously versatile actress's chops with a reading exercise. Streep (of course) nailed her momentary roles of Sexy Oatmeal Recipe Reader, Traffic Reporter in Labor and Annoyed Teenager Reading Wikipedia.
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BONUS: 10 Fun Facts About Oscar Statuettes

Want to impress your friends on Oscar Sunday? Absorb the fun facts revealed in this gallery and unleash the tidbits at your Academy Awards' viewing party.
Each Oscar statuette stands on a film reel, which has five spokes representing the original branches of the Academy: actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers.
The statuette is a knight grasping a crusader's sword. This year, the Academy is trying to start a meme called "#Oscaring," in which people pose like the Oscar.
No. The Academy has awarded nearly 3,000 Oscar statuettes since 1929, but they all have different number emblazoned on them. This one -- marked 3,111 -- will be handed out at a future ceremony.
Original Academy member Cedric Gibbons designed the statuette. He had director, screenwriter and actor Emilio Fernandez pose nude to inspire the Oscar design. Artist George Stanley sculpted Oscar.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave out the first statuette in 1929. Back then, it was only referred to as the Academy Award of Merit. Now, it primarily goes by its nickname: Oscar. The Academy officially adopted the nickname in 1939.
R. S. Owens and Company manufatures the statuettes in Chicago. The Academy says it takes three to four weeks to create 50 Oscars.
Original statuettes were gold-plated solid bronze, but now gold-plated britannia metal has replaced the bronze.
The base size changed several times from 1929 to 1945. The base size has remained unchanged since 1945.
The Academy handed the first statuette in 1929 to Emil Jannings, who won Best Actor for The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.
The 13-and-half-inch Oscar is heavier than it appears, weighing 8.5 pounds.
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