Julie And Julia

Amy Adams: 'Hollywood Loves The Muppets'

“I have one friend that did a cameo but there were a lot of people I know who wanted to,” says Julia.

“Every time I told someone I was doing the movie, they were like, ‘Oh, I love the Muppets!’ It’s a great thing.

“The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.”

Adams recently revealed she’s in love with Kermit The Frog.

“I actually got a DVD from Kermit inviting me to be in the movie,” she said.

“By the end of it I was teary and going, ‘Kermit the Frog knows my name!’ I figured that if I reacted to a Muppet like that then so would audiences so I had to do the movie.

Day 209 - Gay Julie & Julia Pride

As a newly-anointed San Franciscan , I didn't dilly-dally around in doing very... let's say... San Franciscan things. And in light of some recent big changes , I didn't see how I could pass such a cool and unique opportunity up. By which I mean, yup, the Lawrence/ Julie & Julia Project was at The San Francisco Pride Celebration/LGBT Parade today and regardless of what your politics are, it was pretty undeniable that the whole event/spectacle was kind of awesome. ... She [Julia] found homosexuality outlandish—not immoral, and certainly not to be criminalized, but a rude disruption in the natural order of things . Homophobia was a socially acceptable form of bigotry in midcentury America, and Julia and Paul participated without shame for many years. She often used the term pedal or pedalo—French slang for a homosexual— draping it with condescension, pity, and disapproval . “I had my hair permanented at E. Arden’s, using the same pedalo I had before (I wish all the men in OUR profession in the USA were not pedals!),” she wrote to Simca. Fashion designers were “ that little bunch of Pansies, ” a cooking school was “ a nest of homovipers ,” a Boston dinner party was “ peopled by 3 fags in an expensive house …. We felt hopelessly square and left when decently possible,” and San Francisco was beautiful but full of pedals—“It appears that SF is their favorite city! I’m tired of them , talented though they are.” Errr... sooo... I guess we all have to admit now that Julia Child was somewhat of a flawed individual. I mean, sure she was prejudiced against homosexuals, just as pretty much everyone was in that time period, but c'mon. This is fairly problematic, especially since she is the only unequivocally delightful and redeeming character in the movie. Julia Child was perfect ... Right?

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