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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The flurry of posts by my female colleagues on movies and TV shows has gone Right. Over. My. Head. I have never heard of this Julie-whatever movie they are debating. What's the big whoop? And although I've seen a couple episodes of "Mad Men," I think the show is boring and unwatchable. I'm way out of my league trying to debate these TV shows that -- let's be frank -- don't have a chance in heck of being on the cover of Us Weekly. So really, why watch? Go ahead and call me superficial, low-brow, cheesy, trashy, shallow and unsophisticated; I accept all those descriptions. So I'm ...
Let's call it the cinematic equivalent of bad Chinese. When I sat down to savor a huge helping of Meryl Streep (and suffer through some de rigueur Amy Adams) in "Julie & Julia," I expected the movie would do for food what "The Devil Wears Prada" did for fashion -- infiltrate and inspire. Two hours and as many bad wigs later I was left . . . unsatisfied. Unlike Melinda, who only "likes" Meryl Streep, I could watch La Streep chop onions for hours and then thank her for making my eyes red. Still, I doubt that like Alex, I'll be shelling out 22 clams for "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." ...
While I agree with Melinda that the talents of marvelous Meryl and adorable Amy were underutilized and ill-served by "Julie & Julia's" shifting narrative, I appreciated how director Nora Ephron, herself an impossibly integrated version of both women, figured out how to add eggs to the batter. ...
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