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It was like seeing two films by two different directors. And maybe, in a way, that's what happened-it's easy to imagine Nora Ephron 'directing' Amy Adams and Cris Messina to perform in a manner usually associated with a teevee sitcom, but no one but a Master would dare suggest to Streep how to 'act'-and thank god for that. Her and Tucci's performances are subtle and endearing, and that's with the weight of Streep inhabiting a real-life person who's voice and mannerism's could easily have pushed a lesser actor over the edge to parody. You found yourself really, really wishing you could have known these people. In comparison, the 'Julie' side of the ledger was all Nora-and then some:
Oh, the husband really likes her cooking-I can tell because he's shoving it into his mouth like a starving jackal, and spitting it out when he talks!
Look, Julie doesn't want to boil a lobster-that's never been done! Ho ho!, let's play 'Psycho Killer' on the soundtrack, and have the lid blow off like a hand grenade was in the pot! Zany!
He likes the cake! And these crazy, wacky youngsters, they're smearing it all over their faces!
You get the idea. Though the conceit of the parallel stories was a good idea on paper, it needed to be handled by much surer hands than NE's. By half way through I was wishing for a bio-pic of Julia Childs.
Still and all, very much a worth-seeing for the Streep/Tucci performances.
"dammit"
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night the whole restaurant just started to buzz. Heads turned, conversations stopped as the maitre d'hotel escorted the 6'2" Julia Child to one of my tables. Talk of trepidation. I had previously waited on Jackie Onassis, Princess Grace and other famous people but I was so intimidated by Julia Child, my idol, who taught me how to cook through her shows and books. I proceeded to take the cocktail order and she wanted a very dry vodka martini straight up with a lemon twist. That voice, oh my, then she spyed the huge crystal water goblet and with a flick of her finger that made the crystal ping she said " and bring my martini in one of these glasses, not those horrible little glasses". Julia got her more than double martini. When the first course arrived, my young attending waiter offered fresh ground pepper from a mill about 3 feet long and she looked up at him and said, "I expect my food to be perfectly seasoned in the kitchen, not at the table". He was mortified. The dinner progressed reasonably well but by the time the cognac was served Mrs. Child had her elbow planted on the table holding up her head but her elbow kept falling off the edge of the table and her head would suddenly sway without the support from her arm. It was hilarious to see. Mrs Child was drunk as a skunk and the maitre d had to help her out. We did not let her drive home in her VW beetle (imagine 6'2" Julia in a bug) and called a cab for her and her husband Paul. She dined at the restaurant many many times and she was always the most gracious and charming person you could imagine. She never got that drund again, but that was my first experience with Julia. When she published her cookbook "The Way to Cook" she brought me an autographed copy that I treasure. Mrs. Child was a national treasure.
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was very pleasurable while Amy Adams had an ordinary part which is unusual because I usually like her very much
I too wished it was a Julia Childs bio, though I thought Streep overdid it a bit - it was almost a characature...
thanks
Phil
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I believe it was Dan Akroyd's SNL portrayal that you may be referring to. I remember that Belushi did an amusing Elizabeth Taylor impression in a Bill Murray celebrity interview sketch. Streep even mentioned Ackroyd's classic sketch in a Charlie Rose interview (with Nora Ephron, too) shown recently on PBS. See link to Hulu, for the Akroyd sketch.
Regards
Edits: 09/16/09
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