Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends… until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. Written by Columbia Pictures

Summing up Julia Childs

Julie & Julia (2009)

The movie was very nicely done. Meryl Streep did an amazing job as Julie Childs. You’ll enjoy the way the crew shoot from lower angles or use creatively hidden step stools allow her tower over the other actors. The story of Julie Childs could have been done more, they kind of glossed over her television career and only briefly touch on about 8-10 years of her life after 1949 onward.

As to the story of Julie I found it stereo typical, contrived and almost telegraphed. I heard that the real Julie was in the end a horrible person who drove her boyfriend away (rather than the movie version where everything works out fine). That could be false, or real the fun part is I don’t care because I never had an emotional attachment to her. The best my wife and I got out of her character was that the actress that played her looked like a boy through all of it. A moody, bratty, bitch like boy.

The cool part was that she was originally born in Austin and still has a blog on of all things blogspot…. Amazingly she still gets lots of comments which based on the movie is how she gauged her success.

http://juliepowell.blogspot.com/

Overall, the movie was very fun and light at heart. It could have had more cooking, more Julia and more Meryl. 4 Stars!

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4 out of 5 stars!

This was ONE funny movie and if you liked Office Space you’ll probably really like this movie as well. It had all the elements of a great comedy. Drugs, Sex, Crime and Ben Affleck. The best part of the movie is that it is Written and Directed by Mike Judge one of the creators of Beavis and Butthead. He even makes a cameo appearance as “Jim”.

There are also a lot of other really great appearances by some awesome actors. Gene Simmons makes a very great ambulance chasing laywer and Hal Sparks plays a small role of a guitar store salesmen who gets ripped off. However, the stars of the show are Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig (SNL) and Ben Affleck. Don’t be a “Dingus” and see this movie!!

The San Antonio Zoo is home to over 3,500 animals representing 600 species of animals on 56 acres. More than 1,000,000 guests visit the San Antonio Zoo annually

On April 24th a small party of 6 adults and 3 children left Austin, Texas after a very late breakfast. They traveled South and after 90 minutes arrived in San Antonio. After some round about driving we were able to find the Zoo. The pricing was VERY affordable at $10 for adults and $8 for children. I would think that we’ll be getting a year membership very soon.

I found the Zoo to be VERY heavy on the bird and reptile spectrum of animals. At times I thought that we were at the Bird Zoo. However, sporadically spaced through out the Zoo were cute faces and even some mamals.

Some of the rather large reptiles were very photo-gentic and didn’t mind at all that thousands of people were taking their pictures.

Many of the animals almost appeared to enjoy their micro habitats and would smile and put on a good show for the humans.

Though many were photogentic, some were just plain on the side of ugly, or trying to blend in.

In the end it was a great trip and we all had lots of fun. The kids were worn out and so were the adults.

The Zoo is open from 9am to 5pm 365 days a year and comes with our VERY, VERY big recommendation.

Moving to Texas on April 1st to start the new job. I’m very excited!

Fun at the park!! Though it’s a bit chilly here!

This Catie in the sun, the blinds cutting lines across her as she reads a bok by the window.

So pretty!