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LOS ANGELES - The lovely and legendary Meryl Streep turns 72 on June 22. The Hollywood starlet has been in dozens of critically acclaimed movies that made her a three-time Academy Award winner and household name. Streep is known for her remarkable talent to emulate any accent, disappear into roles such as Julia Childs and Margaret Thatcher, and is revered for being somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to her craft. FILE - Meryl Streep walks the red carpet ahead of the "The Laundromat" screening during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on Sept. 01, 2019 in Venice, Italy.

VENICE, Italy - Italian officials are stumped after a patch of Venice's famed Grand Canal turned a fluorescent green over the weekend.Footage released by the Vigili del Fuoco, Italy’s national firefighters, shows a patch of Venice's famed Grand Canal turning a fluorescent green Sunday morning in the Rialto area.Environmental officials with the Regional Agency for Environmental Protection and Prevention of Veneto said they are investigating alongside Venice's police and fire departments. Authorities said the green substance was present on the surface and soluble in the water. Samples were taken at different levels of the surface water body to evaluate how much of the substance tended to settle on the seabed.Some samples were also carried out in the canals bordering the Rialto Bridge, where the anomalous substance gradually spread, also due to the effect of the tide.A first analysis of the samples excludes the presence of substances dangerous for the environment, authorities said.DEADLY ITALIAN FLOODS: BEFORE-AND-AFTER SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW SCALE OF DEVASTATIONA fluorescent patch has colored part of the Grand Canal and the lagoon in Venice, Italy, green.

FILE - The low tide today in Venice has reached -62 centimeters above mean sea level, causing problems to the navigation on Feb. 06, 2023, in Venice, Italy.

Liev Schreiber is all suited up in a full military dress uniform while filming new scenes for Across The River and Into The Trees in Venice, Italy on Monday (December 21).

Cate Blanchett poses for photos as the Jury President for the 2020 Venice Film Festival photo call on Wednesday (September 2) in Venice, Italy.

Tom Cruise has reportedly splashed out £500,000 on a boat for the Mission Impossible crew to film on.

Hollywood star Tom Cruise is reportedly planning on building a makeshift village at an abandoned RAF site in Oxfordshire so filming can resume for Mission: Impossible 7.

Tom Cruise and his fellow Mission: Impossible 7 producers are reportedly taking over an old airbase in England so cast and crew can live there while filming the movie amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In late February, Paramount Pictures halted production on Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible 7," which was set to shoot in Venice, Italy, this spring as the coronavirus pandemic exploded.

Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible 7” has set a September target date to resume filming following a nearly five-month hiatus.

© Getty BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 09: Taika Waititi attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 09, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) LONDON (Reuters) - Stuck at home with the kids? Meryl Streep, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Cate Blanchett may be able to help.

An explosion and fire at a chemical factory in Marghera, Venice, Italy, has resulted in a toxic cloud of smoke smothering the surrounding towns as shown in a shocking video.

Manchester United star Jesse Lingard has been keeping in touch with his Playboy model pal Laura Bragato as he continues to self-isolate.

An Italian cruise ship that earlier in its voyage disembarked two passengers who later tested positive for the coronavirus has docked in Marseille, southern France, port authorities and passengers said on Thursday.