Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity couples (or, occasionally, friendship pairs ) that give us hope for our own romantic futures and trying to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds. It feels like just yesterday that I was expressing my regret-tinged admiration for Meryl Streep’s divorce from her longtime sculptor husband Don Gummer, but as I should have known at the time, you can’t keep La Streep down.
Late last week, the legendary actor was spotted holding hands with her Only Murders in the Building costar Martin Short at a premiere party for the show’s fourth season. Is it possible for friends to hold hands in a convivial, we’re-just-pals-doing-press manner? Of course, but..
.is this that, or something more? Take a look for yourself and do your best to judge. (Also, not for nothing: They were openly singing “Together (Wherever We Go)” from Gypsy on the carpet together.
Swoon!) “I think a friendship always grows if you work with someone and love that person,” Short told Extra on Monday of his bond with Streep—and while this isn’t an outright admission that the two are dating, it does feel sort of angled in that direction (even though Short’s rep said last winter that the pair were “just very good friends, nothing more”). Okay, I want to respect what I’m hearing, but..
.I’ve heard that before? From celebrities who turned out to be i.