“Julie & Julia” does it right. A consummate entertainment that echoes the rhythms and attitudes of classic Hollywood, it’s a satisfying throwback to those old-fashioned movie fantasies where ...
Powell rose to fame in 2002 when she launched the Julie/Julia Project, a chronicle of her attempt to cook all 524 recipes from Julia Child’s 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 ...
There's a larger-than-life gregariousness in the breathless, high-drama gasp of her voice, the idiosyncratic pauses in inflection. Sometimes it feels like an exaggeration, but it's not necessarily ...