Dear 29-time Golden Globe and 20-time Academy Award nominee Meryl Streep,
Happy Super Bowl weekend, and congratulations on being named the 2017 Cecil B. deMille award recipient last month. It's well-deserved, probably overdue and a little surprising that you're the only the second female to give an acceptance speech for one of these since 2000.
Perhaps you could have received it sooner - there was no deMille winner in 2008 due to the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007. Coincidentally, that was the same year the National Football League had a strike. The absence of both created similar voids - wait, hold on; I'm getting ahead of myself.