One is considered the greatest actress of her generation; the other is American cinema’s most enchating “It” girl. But any notion that one is on the downward trajectory of her career while the other flies high is demolished by the sheer resilience and ambition of Meryl Streep’s recent career choices.

Streep, whose first all-out musical, Mamma Mia!, opened July 18, will be seen in two films with the effervescent Amy Adams in the coming year: Doubt, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play by John Patrick Shanley, and Julie and Julia, in which Streep plays the indomitable Julia Child to Adams’ food-blogging Queens housewife who cooks her way through Childs’ Mastering the Art of French Cooking. While they don’t share any scenes in the latter film, they act as kindred culinary spirits.

Asked if she had learned anything working with Streep, Adams doesn’t hesitate. “I learned that I will never be Meryl Streep,” she says in all sincerity.

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The Amy Adams Birthday Project is no longer accepting contributions. I have added all entries now, except for the ones by Taylor, Mike, Sonny, Sydni, Vivian, Randy, Davor, Anne-Laure, Mike and Damian. Mycah will be adding these entries soon. If your name is not listed here and cannot be found on the entries page, chances are it has been lost somewhere in the way so please feel free to re-submit. We will finish the online project this week and then I will start work on the scrapbook.

Once again, thanks so much to everyone who participated. I’m sure that Amy will love it all!

Amy Adams attended Louis Vuitton’s Vanity Fair Party yesterday in Beverly Hills. She looked stunning in a floor lenght magenta number. And look at the beautiful engagement ring! Again, congratulations to Amy and Darren for the happy news.

GALLERY LINKS:
• Public Events: Vanity Fair Party Hosted by Louis Vuitton

Our warmest congratulations go out to Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo, who have confirmed that they’re engaged to marry in 2009.

Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams is getting hitched.

Adams is engaged to her boyfriend of six years, actor Darren Le Gallo; the couple plan to marry sometime next year. Le Gallo proposed to Adams with a diamond by French jewelry designer Jean Dousset of Beverly Hills.

Adams and Legallo met in acting class. “It’s really important to have someone to remind you who you are,” she told USA Today in March. “I’ll run all over but come back to him, and I know who I am.”

Adams was nominated for an Academy Award for the 2005 movie Junebug. She’ll play a nun opposite Meryl Streep in Doubt, out in December.

Source: USA Today

Many wonderful entries from the fans have been added to the Birthday Project entries page. We still have more to add so do not fret if your entry is not up just yet. I am going away for the weekend so you’ll have a few extra days to send in your contributions. The new deadline is Monday, July 28, 2008. Be sure to participate!

Thanks to my good friend Stef, we now have DVD screencaptures of Amy’s performance in Psycho Beach Party. Even though it is one of her very first roles, I think Amy did a fabulous job and it still remains one of my favorite films of hers. I warmly recommend it to all the fans!

GALLERY LINKS:
• Psycho Beach Party: DVD Screencaptures

The 2008 Amy Adams Birthday Project website has now been launched! If you contributed previously and did not include your country of residence, please re-submit your entry here or email us at chickhabit.org@gmail.com. If you did not contribute yet and still wish to participate, please prepare your entry by July 25. Thank you.