Few would argue that Meryl Streep is not the greatest actress of all time.

The only other choice could be Katharine Hepburn.

While beautiful, I’d say Meryl was not at all the typical Hollywood starlet nor bombshell. Perhaps because she wasn’t simply eye candy, she had a chance to get some meaningful roles.

Cover girl at 60

Hollywood is no place for older women—or is it? In the cover profile of Vanity Fair’s upcoming January 2010 issue, Leslie Bennetts investigates the mystery of how, at age 60, Meryl Streep has become the industry’s “new box-office queen.”

The evidence is indisputable:

• Her 2008 screen musical Mamma Mia!, Bennetts writes,“has grossed $601 million worldwide, despite some cringe-worthy reviews (for the movie, not its much-lauded heroine).”

• The Devil Wears Prada, also from 2008, in which Streep played a demanding fashion-magazine editrix, has raked in $324 million around the world.

• And Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, released earlier this year, has earned $121 million and counting.

To read more of the interview visit Vanity Fair.

I’ve been a huge fan since Out of Africa. In fact, as a young man I recall organizing my own Meryl film festival, renting one of her movies each night for a week over Christmas.

She was brilliant, recently, as Julia Child.

I’ve not seen It’s Complicated. But I love Alec Baldwin. And the trailer looks amusing.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The next question is … what male actor is greater?