Streep Trashes Julia Child as Corporate Pawn, Cashes in on Her Legacy
by Pam MeisterCelebrated actress Meryl Streep’s latest project “Julie & Julia” is out in theaters. I have not seen the film and am not sure if I will. I did see the trailers, and admit to being tickled by Streep’s uncanny portrayal of Child’s mannerisms and unusual voice. (For Big Hollywood reviews of this film, click here and here.)
Streep is one of those rare thespians who truly morphs into the character she is playing. You forget for a while that you are watching Meryl Streep (as opposed to never forgetting it’s Tom Cruise in “[insert film title here]“), and for that she deserves heaps of praise. But her off-screen silliness is ripe for mocking.
Take, for example, her declaration during a promotional interview for “Julie & Julia” that she was “disappointed” in Child because 20 years ago, Child refused to take part in Streep’s efforts to get organic produce into supermarkets:
“She was very resistant and she brushed us off quite brusquely,” the Oscar-winning actress recalled. “She sent word back that she didn’t have anything to say on the subject, and she really resisted making a connection between the high fat diet of a heavily laden cordon bleu-influenced cuisine and cholesterol levels. I remember being so disappointed that she was in the thrall of something called the American Council for Science and Health, which was a front organisation for agro-businesses and petrochemical businesses.
“They seduced Julia into giving them money, so she was on the other side for a while. Eventually I think she came around, though.”
How dare she!
I guess Streep didn’t read this bit in the New York Times obituary for Child:
Mrs. Child was always a star, never a spokeswoman. She prided herself on not granting endorsements because she was devoted to public television, and she was not afraid to mock corporate contributors to her advertising-free programs. She once demonstrated how to break off a part on a Cuisinart food processor to make it less cumbersome to use even as the manufacturer’s representatives sat in the audience. And she was known to sue to prevent a restaurant from advertising that it was one of her favorites.
And according to this, Child only accepted $50 per show for her series “The French Chef,” donating the rest of her salary to WGBH, the PBS station from where the series originated.
Hmmm…
You know, Streep’s starring role in the alar scare of 1989 caused American apple growers to lose plenty of money, despite evidence that there was nothing to worry about. But never mind; it was all for a good cause – she, like many actors, wanted to ward off the perception that she was ”just an actor” and so decided to throw herself into the environmental movement. Rachel Carson would be proud.
Streep’s disappointment in Child’s unwillingness to go along with her schemes didn’t stop her from cashing in on the cooking doyenne’s name, however. While I don’t know how much she earned for her turn in “Julie & Julia,” I do know that over the past year, she earned $24 million, making her the third highest paid actress in American film.
Also, the studio behind “Julie & Julia” is Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures is a – gasp – corporation. Does that mean Meryl Strep is in the thrall of big business too? Is she some kind of corporate tool or shill? After all, she didn’t earn her cool $24 million starring in indie projects. Some food for thought, no? Bon appetit!
Like I said before, Streep is an amazing actress. Let’s just leave it at that, shall we?
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The supposedly classiest actress in Hollywood has none. Just shows how declasse the rest of those bimbos are.
As far as Streep, she is a good actress but not a great one.She is acclaimed for "doing accents", but she's really lousy at it. It's a case of the Emperor's new clothes. The reviewers rave about her accent and make us poor peasants think she does it well even when our ears tell us otherwise. Nobody says anything. When she "does American", she is adequate, sometimes very good ("The Devil Wears Pravda") and twice excellent ("Sophie's Choice" and "Kramer…") But who's to say those were the few times the writing lived up to the rest of the production?
Look I will say something that most peple already know but for some reason needs repeating. Actors get paid for playing "lets pretend". We all get the benifit when they do it especially well but is still "lets pretend". I am not saying that there is something wrong with the acting profession what I am saying is this, why would anyone take advice from an actor on anything except maybe on how to play "lets pretend". Unless that actor has shown through indepent work that they have some real expertise in some other profession the only words out of thier mouths should be when they are playing "lets pretend".
I know actors are people too. Well maybe Hitchcock was onto something with his attitude towards actors, I don't know, but encouraging the mindless drivel that spouts forth unbidden from the ignorant mouths of the acting elite seems to prove Hitcocks point that actors should be treated like cattle.
I actually do forget it"s Tom Cruise-I think he is actually a very good actor and we forget or refuse to accept that fact because he became bigger then life and a target for other reasons having nothing to do with his acting. I'll go back and read the post, but I had to speak up for Cruise this time!
Yes, the alar scare was an overblown farce that cost many people a whole lot of money. Money they didn't have, because unlike Streep they were farmers and not big Hollywood stars. I watched this movie and was somewhat impressed w/Streep's portrayal of Child. However, the usually good Amy Adams had the part of a character I really didn't like and I am pretty sure I would detest in real life. This comment attacking Child w/o knowing the way she handled her personal business is really cheap, and as you said, if anyone is a corporate pawn, its Streep.
Hollywood is the abusive spouse and Hollywood's audience is the abused spouse who cannot help but come back for more torture.
As long as you let them beat you they'll never stop.
"They seduced Julia…" If these people ever get a mind of their own, they are going to laugh out loud at themselves and/or come to terms with their own shortcomings and how old they were when they finally got a clue-sad!
Talk about being seduced "by the other side"-what a crock!
I think it's time that people realize (the general public that is) that actors are not particularly bright or infomed. Their job is to simply regurgitate dialogue at the behest of the director. Their "informed opinions" matter very little and I wish the media would stop reporting them.
Now I'm hungry.
Streep is such a good actress I really wish she would just act. One time I saw her accepting some award and she made the joke that she thought she was overrated too. I always thought that was cool, but her alar hysteria among other things makes me wonder if *her* food was poisoned.
Julia Child must've been a blast. A straight biopic of her would've been awesome.
When you really think about it acting is a ridiculous profession.
Man – Talk about a lack of class! How dare Julia Child diaagree with someone of Ms. Streep's pedigree on whatever-it-is-that-Ms.-Streep-is-interested-in. Meryl, like so many performers, seems to have forgotten that people who become the subjects of biopics live their lives for their own reasons; not simply because they someday might be portrayed by some Ivy Leagure thespian. And of course there is the fact that Julia Child is safely in her grave and beyond the power of personal rebuttal. All in all, not Meryl Streep's finest moment.
Another Hollywood hypocrite? I'm shocked.
Meryl Streep is very talented, but she now completely turns me off. She has become, if possible, almost as annoying as Barbra Streisand. My enduring picture of her now is in the disgusting remake of Manchurian Candidate into the protypical Hollywood "liberal" themed movie.
BAM!
I mean, huh? Just because…she's not Bette Davis? So, lame. I hope this is not the case. Unfortunately, I didn't graduate from YALE.
I agree. He actually is a good actor. He becomes the role. His offscreen antics are so in our face, though, that it's hard to separate the role from the actor.
Streep is such a good actress, it reminded me of why I never liked Child's cooking show. Her voice and mannerism are tres annoying.
I recoiled the gratuitous references to McCarthy (even a lefty like Streep must know by now that he's been proven correct). In fact, the whole shtick about Mr. Child seemed jarring. Why at this late date, does everyone need to be assured that Child wasn't gay and that the state department was on a witch hunt to question him about it? The state department was a hot bed (pun intended) of gays then and probably still is. The sex scenes were truly embarrassing.
The conceit of Julie's excellent cooking adventure juxtaposed against Julia's amazing accomplishments was forced and distracting. The scene at Julie's place of employment when her boss told her she should be glad he's not a Republican or she would have been fired for taking a day off — was the most gratuitous PC aside (and there have been an awful lot of them) that I've ever seen on the movie screen.
Julia Child's life was fascinating and a credit to women everywhere. Younger women may not fully appreciate how difficult it was for a middle class, middle aged woman to be taken seriously in those days. She did what she did completely on her own — no sugar daddy — no corporate help — just her own cooking expertise and her very own great idea on a How-To book, which BTW is terrific and probably the genesis of "DOS for Dummies" and all the other books like it, but obviously that's not enough for the know-nothing, know-it-all compassionates in Hollywood.
My husband and I love going to the movies, but over the past years, we only very occasionally find one that won't really p*ss us off like this one did.
Streep is such a good actress, it reminded me of why I never liked Child's cooking show. Her voice and mannerism are tres annoying.
I recoiled at the gratuitous references to McCarthy (even a lefty like Streep must know by now that he's been proven correct). In fact, the whole shtick about Mr. Child seemed jarring. Why at this late date, does everyone need to be assured that Child wasn't gay and that the state department was on a witch hunt to question him about it? The state department was a hot bed (pun intended) of gays then and probably still is. The sex scenes were truly embarrassing.
The conceit of Julie's excellent cooking adventure juxtaposed against Julia's amazing accomplishments was forced and distracting. The scene at Julie's place of employment when her boss told her she should be glad he's not a Republican or she would have been fired for taking a day off — was the most gratuitous PC aside (and there have been an awful lot of them) that I've ever seen on the movie screen.
Julia Child's life was fascinating and a credit to women everywhere. Younger women may not fully appreciate how difficult it was for a middle class, middle aged woman to be taken seriously in those days. She did what she did completely on her own — no sugar daddy — no corporate help — just her own cooking expertise and her very own great idea on a How-To book, which BTW is terrific and probably the genesis of "DOS for Dummies" and all the other books like it, but obviously that's not enough for the know-nothing, know-it-all compassionates in Hollywood.
My husband and I love going to the movies, but over the past years, we only very occasionally find one that won't really p*ss us off like this one did.
I have to agree. Although Cruise has become a buffoon in the eyes of today's pop culture police, he has made some good films: The Color of Money, Rainman (he was great in this one), Top Gun…
I adored "Julie and Julia" and found it a lovely break from our country's current turmoils. Stanley Tucci plays Julia's husband in the movie and he is delicious and sexy. He was the perfect patient husband and had the best comedy lines in the film. Julia Child loved her husband, she loved Paris, she loved to cook, and she brought joy to millions. This is a movie that makes you laugh and smile and feel like you, too, can accomplish anything.
The ultimate vision in this movie is that of Julia Child, not the performer who portrays her. I'm a conservative type and most movies either bore me or disgust me. This one is a real gem. There are a couple of obligatory slap-the-conservatives scenes but they can be ignored in the overall loveliness of this film. I recommend it.
The superstars of Hollywood often forget that there are other people who are "superstars" in their own fields of endeavor. They may not have the paparazzi, a star sticker on their office door or a limo to drive them three blocks to celebrity-infested restaurants, but they're superstars none the less.
I've always found Streep extremely overrated, myself. I find myself avoiding movies if Streep is in them. And, good lord, she was embarrassing in Mama Mia.
So sorry to see your life is so empty.
trashing the dead is always easy. why must out entertainers, our court jesters, feel it necessary to attempt to legitimize themselves with activism?! hello! they pretend for a living. *sigh*
If doing great voices and accents makes one a distinguished thespian, then Frank Gorshin and Frank Caliendo both deserve Oscars. (I would include Rich Little, but his Johnny Carson was kinda weak.)
Why so snarky? Bonnie gave a good over-all review of how she enjoyed the movie. I haven't seen the film and really had no desire until I read Bonnie's take. Now I will see it.
Clarify, please.
Streep is a pawn of the elitist left.
Streep is has obviously not noticed that by working for those she decrys not only makes her a hypocrite but a prostitute for selling herself and her ideals.
Nationalize Hollywood!!! Obama and Emmanuel would make such dashing studio execs of the entertainment industry, don't you think? Spread the wealth around of all these faux socialist Hollywood multi-millionaires!!! Make them feel the burn of their fevered Marxist dreams.
Most actors with reputations as great thespians are overrated. Usuallly their prominence is based upon one or two great performances that make everyone forget the dozen stinkers they make in between. Take Olivier, for example. For every Hamlet and Henry V, there were 10 The Betsy's and Inchon's.
Also Minority Report and don't forget Magnolia.
It would be a great day if these "talented" folks would just stick to what they do best. They're mostly so shallow, self satisfied and naive, they should just leave politics to grownups.
"even a lefty like Streep must know by now that he's been proven correct"
The left never knows anything "by now." They can't be proven wrong because they don't understand right and wrong. That's why you (and my wife and I) had to suffer through Red Rants during an otherwise good movie.
The Betsy, I think they should do a segment of that on The Soup: Things You Can't Unsee!
Mama Mia was embarrassing in toto.
Julia was a legend and deservedly so.
MS has shown that once again, actors should stick to mouthing their lines.
saw the movie. Three or four shots at conservatives which had nothing to do with advancing the plot, just mean. Tiresome. At least in the movie Julia Child rebuffs the silly Julie's effort to make money off her name. The anti-conservative remarks made the movie a turnoff. Too bad as much of it was entertaining, if a caricature of Julia, who in real life was pretty left along with her husband who had a cushy state dept job.
I let them take a swipe at me about once every two years, and no more. I refuse to pay tribute to them, and only soften my resolve about that often.
"Is she some kind of corporate tool or shill?" She may not be a "corporate tool" but she definitely is a tool. After hearing her snarky remarks regarding the late Julia Child (because Ms. Child would not endorse one of her pet causes) and after reading about the gratuitous slams that the Amy Adams character makes about Republicans and conservatives in the movie, I think I'll take a pass on this one. Maybe use my $12 to buy some fresh fruit – non-organic fresh fruit.
my favorite Julia Child comment (quoting from memory): "Whenever I see one of those artfully arranged plates, I can't help but think about how somebody's fingers have been all over my food."
I've been thinking exactly that. Can we put a 98% tax on performing art income over, say, $1M?
shut up and sing !
Back in the days of Shakespeare through the reign of Queen Victoria, "actors" and "actresses" were considered on a par with prostitutes, thieves, and other montebanks. People of class didn't hang about with them. Looks like nothing's changed.
Mama Mia- 2 hrs of my life i ain't getting back.
Hollywood's full of hypocrites. They hate capitalism, yet rake in the millions of dollars without argument. They hate guns, yet make movie after movie filled with gun violence. They hate war, yet – you know the answer, but usually their war movies are anti-American or anti-American Troops, so it's okay. I wish these bubble heads would just shut up (they aren't that bright) and do their job. I would very much like to watch their movies and listen to their music without their political genius hitting me in the back of the head while doing so.
I'd rather see Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child.
Well much of Hollywood are hypocritical as they too are Corporate pawns… They live and die by a corporation… how else are they able to get face time?
I've seen Streep interviewed before. She's an idiot. I suppose it's a waste of time suggesting we stop imputing intelligence or "classiness" to actors who simply happen to be good at their work.
Strong women on the liberal side = spokespeople for the downtrodden, Madonna like, selfless, caring
Strong women on the conservative side = spokemen for evil, corporate shill, sexless, selfish, bitches
That's it. I don't like anyone anymore. Except Julia Child for not giving Streep or the real life Julie the time of day.
Julia Child was healthy until she died in her sleep at age 91. Heavyweight chef Paul Prudhomme is still alive and well at the age of 69 (despite a high cholesterol diet and being 350 pounds even after weight loss). Roly-poly Ben Franklin lived high on the hog until age 84 (when the average life span was 35-40 years). Winston Churchill lived to be 90 on a diet of high fat food and cigars. Damn, if only Food Police spokesperson Streep had been able to regulate their diets, they might have made "a connection between the high fat diet of a heavily laden cordon bleu-influenced cuisine and cholesterol levels." I wonder what nutritional advice Streep would have given slender mega-vegetarian Linda McCartney who died at 56, Gene Siskel (the skinny half of Siskel and Ebert) who died at 53, or super-slim magician-vegetarian Doug Henning who permanently disappeared at age 52? Not to mention her very thin first fiancee John Cazale who died at age 42. The Food Police would have you believe that high cholesterol is a virtual guarantee of early death. Ya think maybe other factors — like genetics — are more typically the culprits? The high cholesterol dogma is under challenge by well respected researchers — not including Streep –and deserves an objective look.
Bottom line: Why in the world do would anyone give any credence to anything these arrogant, self-important Hollywood twits have to say on any subject other than acting?
Obama is the biggest tool Monsanto ever had. What an ignoramus she is. She is probably a big fan of Chavez and Castro.
Save the liver!
Indeed, it is comming down to that isn't it.
She's channeling Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Julia was seduced by the dark side of the money…"
The organic debate is such a yawner. There is no concrete evidence that organic is more nutritious then conventional. It's a debate that goes back and forth. But for liberals, it makes them feeeel good emotionally to eat organic. If conventionally grown food was so bad for us, then why are we living longer than our ancestors who lived on "organic" foods? I'm not bashing organic foods, by all means eat them if you believe the taste is better..just don't try to make it an either/or issue concerning overall nutrition and health. Streep needs to remember that just as many organic "corporations" are behind the organic push as are the conventionally grown corporations.
Same thing with Alec Baldwin.. Politically he's a brassy Irish pinko loudmouth, but he is just as funny as all fuck when given good writing to perform.
As opposed to, say, Rosie O'donnell, who's a brassy Irish pinko loudmouth, but somewhere along the line lost any meager talent she may have had in a smothering blanket of self-absorption and -regard.
Mamma Mia was an awful movie regardless. In case no one already knew that from Pierce Brosnan singing.
While I'm not an enormous fan of Tom Cruise, and I think his personal life is wacky, I can usually enjoy his films, at least the non-sappy ones. I haven't seen "Valkyrie" yet and I'm interested in seeing his portrayal of Stauffenberg.
Have never thought Meryl Streep was a good actress and always thought she was a condescending airhead who should neither be seen nor heard.
A majority of people on the Right still don't accept McCarthy as being right. They still like to throw around "McCarthyism" when they get attacked.
Tropic thunder! It wasn't until the closeup of the producer in profile that I dropped my popcorn at the realization that the obnoxious bald fat man was in fact, Tom Cruise. Bravo!
Like I said before, Streep is an amazing actress. Let’s just leave it at that, shall we?
So why didn't you?
You know…..hate me if you will, but I honestly think I'm going to "thumbs-down" this post.
Sorry.
=P
I'm not sure what you mean. McCarthy accused people of being communists. Who's accusing people on the Right of that?
I would be very happy if I never heard another actor's opinion on anything else ever again.
We need McCarthy back. Now.
I wondered why ABC's GMA was hyping this movie so much. NOw I think I see why…. Jabs at the Right!
I 2nd that.
My husband's grandma cooked evrything with lard or butter and lived to be 101.
Growing "organic" produces small buggy yields. NOt good for hungry countries.
It's also stupid. I know a girl who had to work briefly in a store's produce section. She was a chemistry major. When anyone would ask her "Is this organic?" she'd always say "Of COURSE it is!"
No, what I mean is, whenever some on the Right feel blackballed, they say, "It's modern-day McCarthysim!" like it was Apartheid. I think if they properly understood that McCarthyism was actually correct, they wouldn't accuse others of practicing it against them. That's all I meant.
She really was a disaster in that movie. Really, you must cast people who can SING in musicals!!
Streep – shut up and act.
My favorite Julie Child moment (God, I hope it's true). Julie is cutting up a roasted chicken, which is clearly the slipperiest food alive. And, sure enough, as she stabs the chicken, it skids off the table and plops onto the floor. Julie doesn't blink an eye – she just bends down, picks it up, dusts it off and plops it right back on the counter. Then she looks straight at the camera and intones 'Remember. You are ALONE in the kitchen." After that, she cuts up the chicken, serves it and everyone chows down. (Oh, yeah, and she also remembered to 'save the liver'.)
When you give the bully pulpit to a bully, you get a loudmouth bully.
I saw the interview, Meryl Streep said when they were brushed off by Julia Child, it was like her "entire world crumbled." She never "trashed" Julia Child. In fact the impression Meryl left after the interview is that she was very positively influenced by Julia Child.
I saw Julie and Julia and Meryl Streep was brilliant in portraying Julia Child. Just you guys remember that more people in this world know and love Meryl Streep than you even think possible so you Madam writer. Get a life!
Yeah, don't you like how sites like this are little gossipy hens–take one side comment, twist it out of context, and suddenly, it's so-and-so trashed somebody, Shut up and sing, liberal liberal.
And the comment above… "They hate capitalism, yet rake in the millions of dollars without argument. They hate guns, yet make movie after movie filled with gun violence."
Uhm, maybe it's because they actually DON'T hate capitalism, and they DON'T hate guns. Maybe all those movies actually DISPROVE your talking point. I think it'd be hard pressed to say someone like Michael Bay hates capitalism and guns. (Or the military). Or the hundreds of other actors, directors and crew that run around blowing and shooting things up in, oh, just about every other film made in Hollywood.
Meryl Streep is the greatest actress of all time and 30 million Americans and I loved Mamma Mia! it made $602 million dollars wordwide.
Did any of you idiots even watch the interview? Is that how you judge people while they're innocent?
Meryl Streep did not 'lash out'. She was hurt by Julia Child's dismissive letter on the subject of organic foods. And I quote "that made my world crumble".
You're talking about Meryl not knowing what she's talking about? Do any of you know what you're taking about? This is the Alter people trying to have that fight again a second time because they got their butts kicked the first time around. Find out the truth for yourselves because the pack of you sound like blubbering idiots.
If you wrote to someone you've admired all your life and they sent you a harsh letter back, I'm sure that all of you would feel hurt?
Just another example of the press exaggerating peoples words, and the naive people who buys their line hook line and sinker.
JULIA CHILD CHANGED HER MIND ABOUT ORGANIC FOODS A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER SO ALL OF THIS IS WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE.
Elizabeth Whelan is a sell out to big business. She is a corporate pawn and it now seems as though she owns
Pam Meister.
Meryl Streep is the Greatest Actress ever. She has the most Oscar nominations (15) and the most Golden Globe Nomination (23) and she'll get her 16th Oscar nomination for her magnificent performance in Julie and Julia while Elizabeth Whelan losses sleep over her.
Get a live Whelan and Meister. Meryl has one, a husband and four children who adores her. Does she look as though you're taking an once of fat off of her?
You are two miserable women who need to get a live.
Wow, so a poster above can use the f-word, but my comment isn't allowed because it points out you guys are wrong?
Nice.
I'm running out of people I can stand. And I really do tend to like people, but so many of them are like, "Ick, Republicans!" and it's getting more and more difficult to let it roll off my back. I think I may have to take up hermitude (as long as I can bring my dog. Can hermits have dogs and still be hermits?).
At least he's the right height. She was 6'2".
Vote with your wallet!
I gotta say…no matter how I disagree with whoever may be spouting off, I never have agreed with the "shut up and sing" mantra. Every American has the right to stand up for causes they believe in, from blue blood to redneck to lawyer to brain surgeon to trashman to CEO to washroom attendant. Either we all have a voice or no-one does. No, it's not fair that some people automatically get more press than others. Never has been. Get over it. And I loved Julie & Julia. The complaints about the 'slams' against conservatives are overblown, and based on what I've read so far in Child' "My Life In France," not entirely out of character, so maybe Ephron wasn't just pulling them out of her @$$.
"she was 'disappointed' in Child because 20 years ago, Child refused to take part in Streep’s efforts to get organic produce into supermarkets"
Open your own damn supermarket.
Hitchcock said that the only director he ever envied was Walt Disney, as he only had to work with drawings. Classic.
Mamma Mia made money because of the ABBA.
Are Roxanne, Gina, Michele and Kathy the same person? Maybe they're all members of the Meryl Streep fan club, and alert each other anytime somebody online talks trash about Meryl Streep.
Embarassing in Mama Mia? Try her turn as an action heroine in 'The River Wild!' Both soporific and nauseating at the same time!
"The anti-conservative remarks made the movie a turnoff"
Yeah, and the one that really stood out didn't even make sense. I've never heard of Republicans especially hating people who call in fake-sick. Or was the point that Republicans are mean and unforgiving? In that case, he might as well have said, "You know, if I were a Republican, I'd be an asshole."
"I'd rather see Dan Aykroyd as Julia Child."
Coincidentally, a lengthy clip of Aykroyd as Child on SNL appears in the film. Classic sketch. Better than Streep in many ways. It made me wish I was watching SNL.
"I know a girl who had to work briefly in a store's produce section. She was a chemistry major. When anyone would ask her 'Is this organic?' she'd always say "Of COURSE it is!'"
I'm no chemistry major, but I always had the same impression. The definition of "organic" we all learned in school–that is, "carbon-based"–stuck in my head before I ever became aware of the environmentally-friendly food movement. Which lead to no end of confusion when I stumbled upon organic food sections at grocery stores.
"Doesn't all food have carbon in it?" I'd ask. Soon enough I learned it was a buzz-word, nothing more. And that enviros are hucksters.
Meryl Streep is extraordinarily tiresome.
And was Abba in the Devil Wears Prada and Julie and Julia? Wake up you Conversative pricks, my 13 year old daughter, her two friends, my sister, a cousin and a friend of my saw this movie only because Meryl Streep was in it.
Wake up Elizabeth, and stop talking to yourself!
Here comes Elizabeth Whelan talking to herself again! Go get a life already, woman! Meryl has one and what do you have? Oh I forgot, Big-Business is your man!
Pam and Elizabeth kissing in a tree. K-i-s-s-i-n-g?
Are you two lesbians? So it's not just liberals thing?????!!!!
yea, like anyone calling themselves Brucelee is going to be defend Elizabeth Whelan and her Big Bisness man?
What are you now Elisabeth, a man? Are you a homesexual now? And if so, why do you hate yourself that much? Accept it. Deal with it!
Elizabeth Whelan, you are jealous of Meryl Streep's beauty, popularity and success. Go remove your wart and then maybe you can kiss a toad.
When last have you been laid? Go get some and stop blogging as other people all over this board. You are as sick as a child molester.
How ridiculous can people be! Meryl Streep did NOT trash Julia child. You are merely choosing and picking up a few lines from a whole interview. Throughout the interview, Streep has spoken highly of Child.
There's a reason why I do not like the conservatives. They make more sense than the liberals, but they make their point in a silly sort of a way..With too much manipulation of facts, reason seems all lost from their argument.
Besides, Streep is an American treasure and treasures must never be trashed..
FYI — Maybe you should mention the great organic foods hoax on the level of global warming:
July 30, 2009
http://www.theage.com.au/national/organic-food-no...
"A major study for the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency, which analysed 50 years of research, found organic food had no more nutrients or health benefits than conventional food."
– Unintended consequences:
‘‘I think we’re losing about 4 per cent of top soil in the world each year through our farming practice and so not using nitrogen-based fertilisers continually on soil actually does have a huge effect.’’
Hancock made $624 million worldwide and it was a piece of crap, too. So, your point?
I saw the Devil Wears Prada for Anne Hathaway. Julie and Julia sounds like something that would make a root canal fun in comparison.
You realy get upset that no everyone likes your precious Streep, don't you? I mean, relax — I'm comfortable with the fact that not everyone likes my favorite actors/actresses.
But as her fellow Brilliant Thespian Natalie Portman has pointed out, that financial hardship Streep caused those farmers probably provided them with an "exciting time" in their lives. So they should be thanking Streep, of course!
And even though she's accepting work and paychecks from Big Corporations, she makes up for her sin with such generous humanitarian contributions as this.
"And was Abba in the Devil Wears Prada and Julie and Julia?"
What's your point? Streep didn't sing and otherwise make a fool of herself, nor did the rest of the cast make fools of themselves, in those movies.
Well, they are the *rich*, after all…
An actor speaking extemporaneously…sigh.
Indeed, hermits can haqve dogs (see Road Warrior), just dont get a multitude of cats. A woman living alone with lots of cats is not known as a hermit. She becomes the "crazy cat lady".
Indeed, hermits can have dogs (see Road Warrior), just dont get a multitude of cats. A woman living alone with lots of cats is not known as a hermit. She becomes the "crazy cat lady".
This is the most disgusting display of character assassination I have ever come across and I am not pointing the finger at Meryl Streep. Do any of you really think this woman woke up one day and thought "my life isn't exciting enough, I think I'll take on the pesticide industry". Forget for one minute that this woman is an actress and consider her criteria for protesting
a) she's a tax-paying, voting citizen of America
b) She's a mother
c) She's a consumer
I believe that Streep had genuine conviction that the pesticide Alar was detrimental to the health of children, hers and everybody elses and that she acted on good faith. And furthermore, was she a one-woman show? Hardly, there was quite a lot of concern expressed about the use of Alar since 1986. Streep was simply the easiest target because of her profile. I'm not American, I'm Australian and we quite like it when our actors get behind the community in protesting about health and environmental dangers. Its not unusual to spot Cate Blanchet on a protest march. She's an Australian citizen, she has as much right to voice an opinion as everyone else. How would a lawyer or doctor feel if they were told that their profession bans them from protesting – why should actors be discriminated against? And as for her off-the-cuff remark about Julia Child – God forbid! Is this woman God? Did Meryl confess to adultery or for having an abortion in order to take on a film role? If Julia Child was allowed – back in the 1980's to express to Dr Whelan (not that we'll ever be able to test the truth of that because Child is dead) that she was "furious" about Streep's activism, why shouldn't Streep be allowed to express her disappointment (in an informal interview) that Child didn't want to be part of her charity. I didn't see this particular interview but I've heard heaps of praise about Child coming from Streep (which seems to be completely overlooked here). And sorry Americans, I'm deeply grateful to your country for containing the city of New York and for producing citizens such as Streep, but I'm totally ignorant of the existence of Julia Child – as will most people who are not American or in the food industry. But I'm sure that the world will be enriched by discovering this woman once the movie is internationally released and that will be to the credit of one of your most valuable ambassadors – not Dr Whelan (who obviously still has an axe to grind and has been waiting for her opportunity) but a formidable, gracious, intelligent and humane woman. Face it, if you vicious baggers have to dig back 20 years to find something to discredit this lady, its proof that she's lived an exemplary life.
What offended me about the movie was the opening: this frustrated writer worked at the company that is supposedly in charge of rebuilding the WTC and she was all ticked off that people, survivors, were calling her and sounding off or telling their sad stories! Geez!! I just could not get past seeing a crane shot of THE PIT and then listen to this bureaucrat whine for 2 hours about her life. The knocks on Republicans throughout the movie I'm used to, and the focus on The Black List, but now 9/11 is subject for their derision?
Sickening.
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