Say What? Jennifer Lawrence

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“It’s never a good idea for me to wing it, but it was a quote from ‘First Wives Club.’ Bette Midler was talking about a Globe — I can’t believe nobody has ever done it before — where she says, ‘Look what it says, it says I beat Meryl.’ ”

– Jennifer Lawrence to David Letterman on the backlash she’s getting from her joke at the Golden Globes when she beat out Meryl Streep for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Even Lindsay Lohan got in on it via Twitter, writing, “No one should ever mess with a legend, such as Meryl Streep.”

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