It's kind of weird that 6 foot Jane Lynch will not be playing 6'2 Julia Child. Other than that, I got nothing. I like both Meryl and Jane, so yay?

Which one was she in the 40 yr old virgin?

She was the boss at the Best Buy-type store Steve Carrell's character worked at. She propositioned him.

@ineffable.me l0v3s unicorns!1!!1!: The boss who wouldn't stop talking about teh sex.

I thought Amy Adams was playing Julie? The book is fun (although it tends to meander a bit, I enjoyed the blog more.) Meryl will be a wonderful Julia, though.

I bet to research her part Meryl Streep practiced cooking with just a tiny drop of wine *pours whole bottle into pot*

@ineffable.me l0v3s unicorns!1!!1!: Manager who offers to sleep with Steve Carell.

I have been on page 138 of that book for the past 6 months. I think it is about to make the leap into that special place where books go to be put down.

I did the same thing with Atonement and then, yay!, a movie. Thanks for encouraging my laziness, Hollywood.

@ineffable.me l0v3s unicorns!1!!1!: she was steve carell's creepy, cougary manager at the electronics store who offered to take his virginity. she was also in "best in show" and a buncha other stuff.

@scrumtrulescent: @blondegrlz: Both beat me to it! :-)

@Rhody: it's worth skipping ahead to the last two chapters but then you can shelve it next to The Other Boelyn Girl.

@blondegrlz: @bellethellama: @bananaballs: thanks, i wouldve gone to imdb but the character name would've dont nothing to help me. ha.

and look at all of you with your names starting with a B!

I love Jane Lynch. She's amazing in all the Christopher Guest movies. Freaking hilarious!

Hooray for Jane Lynch, that fucking dyke.

omg omg omg!!!! i literally screamed when i read this!
Julie and Julia is one of my favorite books EVER!!!

sooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!

Joan Cusack was supposed to play Julia Child in a different biopic that has since dropped out of sight. I love both Joan and Meryl so I am torn. But yeah, Amy Adams is def in this movie too.

@blondegrlz: I can't wait to see if she tries to talk with Julia's rhythm and high, growly voice. Knowing Meryl, she'll nail it -- she's the consummate actor.

Jane Lynch is the best. "For Your Consideration" was on last night and she rocked.

jane lynch is awesome. anyone see "lovespring international"? brilliant.

@bananaballs: "JAVIERRRRR....."

this is awesome cause it's not about victims, doormats or whores. oh my.

Oh Meryl Streep, I love you. Just the way you are.

(Also, my love for her and the malleability of her name makes me want to make up lame nicknames for her. The Streepwalker. The Merylmeister. That kind of thing. Who knows where thoughts come from? they just appear.)

YEA FOR JANE, YEA FOR JANE! God, I love her in Chris Guest's movies.

I really enjoyed Julie and Julia, if only because it made me feel good about not trying any of those ridiculously complicated french recipes. Microwavable food for the win!

i heart jane!! she is also fun in the L word.

SQUEEEE!!! "Excited" doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about this being made!

I love Jane too!

I've never read the book, but I do remember seeing some interview with the author during which she talked about how much weight she gained eating 1-2 gourmet meals and desserts a day and how expensive it was to buy all the ingredients and the cooking equipment. I'm glad to learn she's made her money back! Now she can hire someone to cook for her. I know I would never want to cook again if I made 524 recipes in a year.

@seattleinthecity: she's so agressive! It's time for her to move on from Cybil Shepard.

I love all of the folks in this movie but that book bored me to tears. "And then I made something with horse hooves, it was a disaster!" "And then my kitchen was messy, it was a disaster!" "I couldn't find crazy french ingredients at the store, it's a disaster!"

@eeva: Nice Empire Records shout-out.

What's with today today?

Ooo, Jane Lynch is so funny! Yay for Best in Show!

YAY! Two yummy ladies in a movie involving food. I'm in!

@BeAgrestic: jane/joyce is aggressive --- i want her to find a good match! btw, although i thought this might happen, aren't you sad the show will be done after next season? the l word ladies are the hottest on tv!

The book is divisive, alright- some love it, some hate it, plenty find it a snoozefest.

I personally loved it, but I love cooking and grew up in the restaurant biz and bla bla bla. Also loved how Julie never sugar-coated anything (other than desserts)- she was perfectly willing to write about being an ass when she was.

Meryl Streep is going to ROCK that movie. I really, really hope they recreate the scene from a letter her husband wrote to his brother; Julia reaches into a pot of boiling water to grab out some manicotti, and exclaims, "wow! these things are as hot as a stiff cock!"

pleasepleaseplease have her say those lines...

She (Jane Lynch) is also in the L Word.

This is the second best movie news I've heard today! The first being the sequel to "Splash" that they just started filming.

@Rhody: I've been trying to get through Atonement myself, which I bought before I knew a movie was out about it. It's a snooze-fest, seriously. I'm not sure why I even bought it, I don't tend to like books about high society and the like. I just can't bring myself to care. I can't STAND Jane Austen, for one, and I don't get everyone's fascination about her. As Mark Twain once said (he really did NOT like Jane Austen!):

"I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."

I'm inclined to agree lol. *waits to get beat down by Austen fanatics* :P

Julia is one of my most favorite people!! She was wooooonderful.

And I think Jane Lynch is very underrated, so good on that too.

@crushdmb: Thank you. One of my coworkers has all of the Jane Austen books in print, which she doesn't read, she just collects all the different covers. I had to order her an Austen book in Russian from eBay. I can't get through the books at all.

@seattleinthecity: I am so freaking sad! My love of the L word was hardly been consistent, but I am really digging this season. It's better that it go out with a bang (heehee) than whimper! Sarah Shahi better make a surprise appearance!

Ugh that book was so WHINY! The main woman did admit that she was difficult but the whole time I just felt bad for her poor husband. She freaked out and sulked whenever ANYTHING went wrong, and of course things are going to go wonky when you try ANY recipe for the first time, and not just super difficult French ones.

Not to mention she had no concept of when would be a good day to postpone the cook-off. For example moving day, or one day when the bathtub leaked really badly, and she was in the kitchen crying and throwing stuff around and neither she or her poor husband got to eat until something like 11 at night.

The concept was interesting but the book itself was so frustrating.

The book was annoying-ish. I wish she'd written more about food and less about how her relationship was falling apart.
I REALLY wish they'd make a movie of Julia Child's autobiography My Life in France. She had such an interesting life, was totally in love with her husband, and had these great loving/catty friendships with Simca and Louisette.

@monkey33: I tried on several occasions to get through a few of Austen's books, and I failed each time. The last time I just tossed the book aside in disgust. And I'm not one to give up on books easily.

Then again, I think it says something that John Steinbeck is my favorite author. I can't stand books about high society -- they are always so whiny and the woman don't seem to want anything except to find a man an dit drives me batty.

@monkey33: And why would someone buy books and not read them!? What the hell? Does she watch the movies and profess to be a Jane Austen fan? Because she's not, if that'st he case. IF YOU DO NOT READ THE ACTUAL BOOK, SHUT IT! Books are always better than the movies!

Well, no, I take that back. I tried getting through the first Dexter novel and totally failed -- it was horrible and simple and uuuugh. But the show? OMG I love the show SOOOOOO much. It was MADE for TV, I think, and just doesn't work as well as a book.

WHY ARE COMMENTS NOT SHOWING UP EVEN WHEN I REFRESH? *sobs*

Love them both.

I started reading Julie/Julia around the second month she was doing the blog over at Salon Blogs. When I tried to read the book I came to the conclusion that it a concept ideally suited to blog format and was much less successful as a book.

That being said, I will be at this movie the day it opens. I'm glad Julie was able to make a go of it and get a book and a movie deal out of it.

@crushdmb: She does read them, she has copies just for reading. All the rest are just for looking at and collecting. She collects anything Jane Austen related: umbrellas, books, movies, postcards. She also won't let students sell back copies of any Jane Austen book.

just read this script. meh. maybe meryl can save it.

if they can scrunch Catherine O'Hara in there somewhere than this movie will contain the three awesomest women in Hollywood...

I read this book a couple of years ago- I wasn't on the blog bandwagon when she was blogging- and my first throught upon finihsing was, damn, this would work so well as a movie. A project, a timeline, an uplifting ending. Except, with a movie there'd have to be some subtle changes so watch out for these. Instead of staying with the hub she's had for ten years and adopting two cats, in the movie Julie will marry a boyfriend she's had for one year or her and hubs will be with child at the end of the movie. Then there will be a nice feelgood montage of her en famille cooking in Brooklyn or some such. And she won't work at the 9/11 Commission for whatever it was that bored her to hers. You just are not allowed to be bored when supporting America's Comeback with your typing skills. Although there was that scene where she helped all the tearful families find tissues at Ground Zero (or whatever) that will translate nicely onto film...
/oops too long. apologies.

Love them both; LOATHE cooking. Can I love this film? Yes, I can.

I didn't RTFA; does anyone know which blog it was based on?