I’m a guy and even I can admit to enjoying Nora Ephron’s films. Perhaps they are chick flicks, but they are very well done. When Harry Met Sally and My Blue Heaven, both written by Ephron, are classic comedies in my mind. The kind that whenever they’re on I’ll stop to watch. So finding out that Ephron was doing a movie about Julia Childs was exciting. But it appears the movie will be delayed a little bit due to star Meryl Streep.
Not that Streep, who as she’s gotten older has just become even more fantastic in her roles, is being a diva. The worry is that her portrayal of the late Julia Childs is so good as to be Oscar worthy, they don’t want that to interfere with her Oscar chances in Doubt. Want even more reason to be excited? Amy Adams is in Doubt, and she plays one of the titular characters in Julie and Julia.
With as political and weird as the Oscars can be I don’t find this strange at all. Julie and Julia is the film adaptation of Julie Powell’s book which details her cooking through Childs’ classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking in Powell’s Queens apartment over the course of one year. Powell blogged the experience, wrote a book about it, and it’s now a film.
