Let's Talk Oscars

Then there was Meryl Streep?s best actress upset?an upset by the standards of this year?s set-in-stone race, anyway?a mild but pleasurable surprise that made me realize I?d secretly wanted her to win all along. The Iron Lady was terrible, yes, but that made her triumph in it all the more surprising?how could a movie this bad contain a performance this good? And for all the awards she?s garnered over the past 30 years, for all the genuine graciousness with which she?s insisted Viola Davis should get this award?for all that, you could tell from her face when she found out that Streep really wanted it. That was what I loved most about Meryl?s funny, heartfelt, perfect acceptance speech: her self-mocking but not faux-humble admission that, oh yes, she cared all right. Her mimicking of the reaction of a Streep-fatigued America??Oh come on, whyyyy? Her again??, followed by a breezy wave of the hand and a dismissive ?Whatever!??has me on the floor even rewatching it the day after (I also cried a second time during her fluttering tribute to the makeup and hair man she?s worked with for 30 years, who had just won an Oscar for The Iron Lady.) The French have that expression, bien dans sa peau, for a person who feels ?good in her skin,? who seems somehow at ease with the fact of being alive. I may never have Meryl Streep?s talent or fame or shimmering 62-year-old complexion, but we can all aspire to that one day being that bien in our peau.

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