Review: Julie & Julia

MCN Review

Entertaining as the movie is, the comparison of Julia‘s stimulating literary/political milieu (Child and Paul have to cope with the McCarthy era as well as the vagaries of diplomatic and culinary careers) and Julie‘s more superficial ain’t-we-cute domain, are all on the side of Child. Late in the movie, when we hear that Julia C. herself has read the blog and apparently doesn’t like it, I wasn’t surprised. Why should she? What did Powell expect, from an old-fashioned liberal writer, working in the world of print and classical publishing, confronted with a do-it-yourself internet blog that makes a huge slumgullion of Julia‘s recipes and Julie’s misadventures?   More>>