My Life in France

...Art of French Cooking. The plot was actually brought to life by Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle) who combined the memoirs Julie and Julia (by Julie Powell) and My Life in France (by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme). While both women find...

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Best known for "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail," writer-director Nora Ephron adapts and intertwines two books here, Child's "My Life in France" (co-authored by Alex Prud'homme) and Julie Powell's "Julie & Julia. " The...

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...Petite Chou (Credit: Frank Espich) Like the ingredients of fine French cuisine, "Julie & Julia" inventively blends the narratives of Julia Child's "My Life in France" and Julie Powell's "Julie & Julia." The film, starring Meryl Streep and...

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The film, which comes out today, was written and directed by Nora Ephron and cuts between scenes based on Julia Child's memoir My Life in France and Julie Powell's 2005 book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.

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...written by Child's nephew Alex Prud'homme, and Powell's book "Julie & Julia," used by Nora Ephron in the film's screenplay, have become top sellers. "My Life in France" was the No. 1 seller for nonfiction paperback, and "Julie & Julia"...

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...Ephron dwells far too long on the conflicts among the cookbook's three authors. Consequently, the movie misses the point of "My Life in France." That country liberated Julia, a 6-foot-2 woman -- tall girls "don't fit in," her equally...

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...classic "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." (The movie gets its title from Powell's 2006 book, but it's also based on Child's 2006 memoir "My Life in France," written with Alex Prud'homme.) Alternately portraying Child's journey toward...

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...for Nora Ephron's new film, "Julie & Julia": "My Life in France," Julia Child's posthumously published autobiography, written with Alex Prud'Homme (Random House, Movie Tie-In Edition). "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1" by...

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...generation of foodies back to Child. To coincide with the opening, the publishers have released new editions of "My Life in France" and Powell's book "Julie & Julia" with Streep and Adams on the cover. Even the latest edition of "Mastering...

In this article: Julia Child, Julie Powell, Julie & Julia, Meryl Streep, Chicken, and Jacques Pepin