On 6 feb, 17:37, gtr wrote:
> On 2010-02-06 06:54:06 -0800, Howard Brazee said:
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> > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 20:40:13 -0800 (PST), william
> > wrote:
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> >> An exploration into mimicry and fame. While Meryl Streep mimics Julia
> >> Child the person, Julie mimics Julia Child by not writing a real book
> >> but by writing a blog about cooking all of Julia Child's recipes in
> >> Mastering The Art Of French Cooking. An insipid puppet show about how
> >> at one time people spent years perfecting a handbook for a cuisine and
> >> now how a dim and self-absorbed blogger can make a million dollars by
> >> turning cooking dinner into a personal struggle.
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> >> A stupid and unnecessary movie.
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> > While I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, my question for you is:
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> > What movie is necessary?
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> I thought it was a pleasant piece of fluff. I don't mind watching some
> contrived blabber to see Stanley Tucci in almost anything. What movie
> isn't a puppet show about how one group did one thing and another group
> did another. =A0That's "The Great Escape", "Hamlet" and "the Howdy Doody
> Shoe". =A0Well I guess it's obvious the latter is a puppet show...
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> The reality is that truly Great Film is a rarity. =A0Checking all the
> production-line HWood movies off one at a time with a belch seems
> hardly worth the effort.
> --
> Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.
tucci generally is a pain in the arse bore as in omg blind date |