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Article: Julie & Julia; film note
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- August 5, 2009
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Julie & Julia; film note
After seeing director Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia I felt like singing "Food, Glorious Food/' the musical number that opens the Oscar-winning musical Oliver! When tiny Mark Lester - who played Oliver, the orphaned urchin - stepped up to the mean workhouse overseer with his empty bowl and begged, "Please sir, I want some more/' he described my feelings about Julie & Julia exactly. This delectable, adorable movie - yes, "delectable" is the proper word for it - definitely leaves one hungering for another helping.
It's a great return to form for writer- di rector Nora Ephron, who smartly decided to combine adaptations of Julie Powell's best-seller (based on ...