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Karina Longworth Discusses Her New Book on Meryl Streep on Q for 7-4

TODAY on "Q" 

-- Film critic KARINA LONGWORTH, author of the new illustrated book "Meryl Streep: Anatomy of an Actor", speaks to the unparalleled career of the 18-time Oscar-nominated actress (and three-time winner). This book is the first lengthy study of the actress as a feminist artist, as Longworth argues that Streep's choice of roles, her process and the results are actually quite radical. She says her body of work functions as a kind of alternative history of the 20th century from a female perspective.

-- Toronto-raised rapper DRAKE has gone from being an outcast at his hometown high school, to a successful teen TV actor, and now -- at age 26 -- a hugely-successful rapper whose confessional, vulnerable lyrical style is matched in force by his confidence and bravado as a performer and celebrity. Jian talks to him in this wide-ranging two part feature interview.