My Publicist Note Book

Meryl Streep accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards  Meryl Streep received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, and slammed Donald Trump's "performance" in her acceptance speech. "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick us all out, you’ll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts, which are not arts," she said, tearfully and with a faint voice, upon accepting the career-spanning honor. She echoed Hugh Laurie's comment about how the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is part of "the most vilified segments in American society right now" — Hollywood, foreigners and the press. "But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places," she explained, outlining her New Jersey upbringing, plus the non-Los Angeles backgrounds of Sarah Paulson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Adams, Natali...

Melania Trump was poised to step outside her husband's long  shadow Monday night during a speech at the Republican National Convention in Ohio that represented a rare potential opportunity to learn more about the woman who could serve as the nation's next first lady. Melania Trump stepped onto center stage for the highest-profile speech of her life. She did a great job and was beautiful doing so. Her prime-time speech at the Quicken Loans Arena, as the keynote speaker on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, places her squarely in a role that she has shied away from for most of the campaign: that of a podium wife. Melania has been working with a speechwriter for the last five to six weeks, honing her speech. She will be sticking close to script delivering her remarks off a teleprompter, according to a Trump adviser. What do you think of Melania  Trumps  speech? Trump camp...