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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
I have absolutely no interest in seeing this movie. I loved the Julie/Julia Project (the blog that led to the book that led to the movie), and I liked -- though didn't love -- the book, but by the time they got to the movie I'm afraid they'd completely watered down the nasty, sarcastic, profanity-laden, and utterly hilarious tone that Julie had and that made the blog so wonderful.
That said, I was fascinated to read this morning that sales of Mastering are now through the roof -- more in the past week than in any year since the book was published?
And so, many more people will come to learn the joys of system-shocking quantities of butter and severely overcooked veggies. (I mean, I love the books but seriously -- has anyone ever grown a carrot that needed to simmer for 90 minutes?)
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It amuses me that the covers of new copies of Mastering and Julia's autobiography have pictures of Meryl Streep playing Julia Child rather than of Julia herself. I guess that's modern marketing.
