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VeraEumelus
08/24/09

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And show reruns of Child. I've never seen her old show and would love to. It would kick the crap out of Sandra Lee.
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Queen of the Passive Aggressives
08/24/09

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Can the Food Network cancel Sandra Lee now?
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Glib and Bitchy
08/24/09

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I am looking forward to the future Streep/Ephron double feature of Julie & Julia and Heartburn.
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sparklyharempants
08/24/09

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I could have watched a whole movie with Meryl Streep playing Julia Child. In fact, I wish they'd have done that instead.
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Glib and Bitchy
08/24/09

@sparklylegwarmers: Kind of nice to know that "the movie editions of 'My Life in France,' the 2006 book that chronicles Ms. Child’s years there and provided biographical material for the movie, have been reprinted nine times by Knopf."
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Bobby Big Wheel
08/24/09

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Sadly for Betsy McCaughey, Inglourious Basterds has not helped sales of books that are entirely inaccurate.
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Glib and Bitchy
08/24/09

@Bobby Big Wheel: Julie & Julia wouldn't help, since her arguments are half-baked.
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Muscato
08/24/09

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There is actually someone smart enough to have read Child's book who thinks that a can of mushroom soup is healthier than a nice dollop of fat? Oy.

And does no one notice that the lady herself lived to a vigorous 91, in fine fettle to the end? Good ingredients, small portions, and, as I'm sure Julia would add, lashings of gin and butter - that's the secret to a long and happy life.
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snugbug
08/24/09

@Muscato: I'm so charmed by this comment that I want to toast you with a glass of Muscat, even though I loathe sweet wines.

Julia did love her alcohol--there's a lengthy confessional in her adored "My Life in France" where she talks about how she and Paul routinely killed a bottle of wine at lunch and another at dinner, plus assorted mixed drinks when the cocktail hour struck. And how this boozing regimen plus the steady intake of butter initially gave them both terrible tummy aches, or as the French put it, "crises de foie."
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Baroness
08/23/09

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Julia wasn't a Brit. She was from California. She just came from an uptight WASP family who spoke the way they do in old movies. Julia was joyously American in the very best sense.
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Airvault
08/24/09

@Baroness: She's just good with accents! I loved Julia in Sophie's Choice.
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Baroness
08/24/09

@Airvault: But how sexist of her to choose the boy! I don't know how Julia could keep putting things in ovens like that. It must have been a torment Nora Ephron chose not to touch on.

(All right, I'm being fucking awful here, and I apologize for the black humor. And I also apologize to black comedians everywhere too. Ugh, I hate myself. )
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Airvault
08/24/09

@Baroness: But you can't possibly hate on her homemade dingo food!
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jasonelias
08/24/09

@Baroness: I didn't really think of Julia as American or British. Really she just seemed otherworldly. If someone told me as was from Mars, I would have believed it. But yep, born in California.
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Baroness
08/24/09

@Airvault: Julia was a famous markswoman, and her legendary feat of bringing back 10,000 dead dingoes for bored American housewives to make a tasy meal of is not something i'll let you scoff at, sir. In fact, i believe it's a major upcoming plot point of Mad Men. Betty's about to kill Don, when suddenly Julia's blood bespattered image appears on the black-and-white TV. Instead of murdering her husband, Betty makes a tasty roast loin of dingo, with an apricot and garlic sauce. And the children wonder where the family dog went to.
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Airvault
08/24/09

@Baroness: Death Becomes Her?
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Mount_Prion
08/23/09

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Marley & Me
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thatgirlinnewyork
07/30/09

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it's a film and book that should have simply remained a blog. this story's played out. as an admirer of childs, i'd rather remember her as she appeared on television, not as someone would portray her, even if it is la streep.
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badasscat
07/29/09

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Or, you know, when a whole bunch of people are calling one person an idiot, maybe that person really is an idiot?

It does work out that way sometimes.
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WillowDione
07/29/09

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Seriously folks? This is a film about one women's path to finding herself through the lens of a culture she grew up in. No where in the book does the author write abut Julie Child as the topic of her story. If the author's story had been set against a backdrop of learning to play the guitar through a childhood connection to John Lennon no one would utter a peep. Child was a cultural legend...culture is a lens through which we see ourselves. Why is this an insult to Child and why does it provoke people so much? If we all look a little deeper here you can read the story as a commentary on women...not cooking.
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SelbyReptile
07/29/09

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When Julie was blogging, I remember rushing home every day from work looking forward to reading her latest cooking adventure for the day.I used to sit in the living room with my Nana and read the entry aloud to her. It was the first food blog I had heard of and loved her irreverent, yet respectful, attitude towards food and cooking. It was funny and serious and dramatic. And knowing that I was reading an account of some drama that had just ended in someone else's kitchen was just so cool in 2004 or 2005 or whenever it was.

I am kind of, um, particular about food--but all of these critics are really taking this way to seriously. Julie, to me, seemed like she undertook the blog to have fun and prove something to herself--not to show the world what a serious cook she was. Can no project be taken on just for fun? Does a person need to be an expert to do anything? How boring is that. I liked learning along with Julie and knowing she wasn't perfect and had an opinion. Just as Julia, on The French Chef, wasn't perfect, made mistakes, and had opinions about food and life. Qualities that makes both women much more personable and lovable in my mind.
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SayeedaEspio
07/29/09

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Love the dialogue my post created. I've been called many things, but generally not prissy. Thanks for including me in your post. Best VA
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Motoko Kusanagi
07/29/09

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I love Meryl Streep. That is all.
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ShanghaiLil
07/30/09

@Motoko Kusanagi: When I pray, I always imagine God looking like Meryl Streep. It helps, actually...
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GooberSaysHey
07/29/09

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I would've seen this if it was just a film with Meryl Streep as Julia Child, but I don't give a rat's ass about some blogger from Brooklyn ... ugh!

I'll probably wait until it comes around to HBO, then I'll DVR it and fast-forward through the crap half.
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Occula
07/29/09

@GooberSaysHey: Yeah, why couldn't we have just gotten a really interesting film about Child's life? I'd've paid good cash to watch Meryl Streep play a chef/spy.
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