The Devil Wears Prada

Published: July 13, 2007, 1:06 am

This is a fun Saturday night cable movie. Not one I’d have been happy to pay $10 each to see in the theater but the colorful fashionistas do look really good on our HDTV screen. Star Anne Hathaway’s made several fairy tale princess movies and The Devil Wears Prada (2006) seems like a bit of a translation of one of those to the fashion/publishing world. A fairy tale must have a bitter queen and Meryl Streep surely goes to town as Miranda Priestly, longtime editor of Runway (think Vogue) and the ruler of the designer kingdom. Hathaway’s naif Andy comes to Manhattan after college graduation, school newspaper clippings in hand as well as a complete lack of interest in fashion. Somehow she gets an interview to be Miranda’s junior assistant and is hired by showing, er, spunk. A fairy tale also needs a magician to guide our heroine and Stanley Tucci plays Hathaway’s, as Miranda’s long-suffering design chief Nigel. I never did decide if Tucci was going for

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