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  • David Paul Appell August 16, 2009 at 9:00pm
    I loved it, too, Wendy! No idea re the quaint/fakey question, but maybe it did look a little suspiciously "cleaned up."

    By the way, on Fodors.com recently I came across an interesting item listing eight places in Paris where Julia Child hung out that you can still visit today:

    -The cookware shop E. Dehillerin
    -The English bookshop Shakespeare & Company
    -Les Halles market
    -BHV department store
    -St-Ouen/Clingancourt flea market
    -And of course, several restos and cafés, of course: Le Gran Véfour, Deux Magots, Au Pied de Cochon

    [http://www.fodors.com/news/story_3548.html?ref=53]

    Wendy Capra said:
    I just saw Julie & Julia last night, and what a charming movie. It was especially neat to see how they staged postwar Paris -- although I must say, it did look a little on the overly quaint and maybe even fakey side. I mean, this was supposed to be 1949, right? A mere 5 years after the liberation of Paris from the Nazis -- after the trauma of the war, was it really that cleaned up and twee by then, I wonder?
  • Wendy Capra August 16, 2009 at 7:41pm
    I just saw Julie & Julia last night, and what a charming movie. It was especially neat to see how they staged postwar Paris -- although I must say, it did look a little on the overly quaint and maybe even fakey side. I mean, this was supposed to be 1949, right? A mere 5 years after the liberation of Paris from the Nazis -- after the trauma of the war, was it really that cleaned up and twee by then, I wonder?
  • Ann Dys June 8, 2009 at 3:08am
    Kalimera! I saw My Life in Ruins this weekend. Good news and bad news. Good: the scenes of Athens, Delphi, Olympus, and more are absolutely luscious. Bad: the most cartoonish writing I've seen in a long time...and that includes cartoons! Oh, well, pass the ouzo...

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