Thoughts on Julie & Julia

So, I finally checked out Julie & Julia. Here are some thoughts:

-- If Julie Powell wanted to pay respect to Julia Child, would she really leave a stick of partially melted butter under her portrait at The Smithsonian?

-- OMG Amy Adams' haircut! It goes a long way to tip the annoying/cute scales in her favor. 

-- Meryl Streep can do no wrong. With this movie and Mamma Mia, she's probably your mom's favorite actress right now.

-- I didn't like the actor who played Julie Powell's husband, especially whenever he dipped his fingers in something, shoved it into his mouth and went 'OH mug gawd, you mrade thiss?!"

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--Frank Bruni is the dinner guest in the cream colored jacket at the end of the film? WTF? I've seen that photo in press for the movie a million times and never made the connection. HE WAS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. 

-- Look out people! We've seen the Manic Pixie Dream Girl many times before, but we've never seen her with a spatula -- and it worked. I bet you five bucks that in Zooey Deschanel's next film her character will be obsessed with cooking/baking/eating/food blogs/The Joy of Cooking, etc. 

--Who's doing the dishes in the Powell household?  I didn't see a dishwasher in their perfectly cluttered apartment...

-- It's nice to see Stanley Tucci and Meryl Streep rekindling their great on-screen chemistry. Also, his inclusion set up a nice thematic link to Big Night, a far better food film than this one.

-- The brown haired actress that played Julia Child's co-author -- did she bone up on her French accent by watching old Pepe Le Pieu cartoons? 

-- I loved seeing Long Island City portrayed as the great unchartered wilderness of New York.  You know, the 7 train runs there, right? 

-- It was fun to see the back of Ed Levine's head in the scene at Dean and Deluca, but isn't Ed more of a Fairway/Zabar's kind of guy?