Nobody Had a Better Week Than Hollywood’s Hopeless Romantics

We’ve reached the end of another long week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving props where they’re due. Here’s to our winners of the week.

Oh, how the turn tables. One day you’re championing the empowerment of happily divorced women, the next, sighing, swooning, and blushing because true love is back, it’s real, it’s here.

At the center of our fluttering hearts are Meryl Streep and Martin Short, whose long-rumored romance was seemingly confirmed this week by their Only Murders in the Building co-star Steve Martin, and via a Glamour screenshot, no less. The utter charm of it all!

Meryl Streep and Martin Short in August 2024.

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Sorry to get sentimental, but the fact that they both lost the loves of their lives too soon makes this the kind of happy ending we thought only existed in a Chicken Soup for the Soul compendium (remember those?). If you didn’t know, Streep is long separated from her husband, sculptor Don Gummer, but before that, she was with fellow actor John Cazale through his tragic death at age 42 from lung cancer; Short lost his wife to ovarian cancer in 2010.

Speaking of meeting on set: It’s been a few weeks since this was announced, but we’re still not over two of the School of Rock kids getting engaged. This movie was a foundational text for a generation, made all the more nostalgic by the fact that most of the young cast stayed out of the limelight afterward, forever preserved in our memories as pint-size rock stars (RIP, drummer Freddy).