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STREEPS OF FIRE #3: JULIE & JULIA and KRAMER VS. KRAMER

SPECIAL NOTE: This episode was recorded before the untimely and sad death of Julie Powell, who wrote the book, and is the lead character, in Julie & Julia, played in the film by Amy Adams. Condolences.

Streep thirty years apart!

Travel back to 1979 and the proto-men's movement galvanizer, Kramer vs Kramer! Streep co-stars with Dustin Hoffman (who was once approached by Mike Nichols in the late 70s to play John Rambo so he will alway be Rambo to us) as a divorcing couple unsure with how to split one of their prized possessions, their son. Hoffman was the bigger star at the time but Streep holds her own and pocketed her first Oscar for it. We talk a lot about how Hoffman wasn't the coolest dude to a still-grieving Streep during filming. A box office smash and Oscar sweeper. does it hold up 43 years later?

JULIE & JULIA in 2009 reunites Streep with screenwriter Nora Ephorn (who Streep played a fictional version of in Heartburn) and also pairs her with director Nora Ephron (meh). Most importantly, we cover another movie with Amy Adams, last seen in season one and Trouble With The Curve with Clint Eastwood and cursed manchild blight Justin Timberlake. Julie Powell's blog-turned-book is turned into a movie about a plucky young woman starting a blog about making every recipe in Julia Child's legendary Art of French Cooking doorstop. The film also adapts Julia Child's own memoir about her early days learning to cook in France and being a possible spy (sadly a neglected plot point in the movie). Streep in reunited with her Devil Wears Prada co-star Stanley Tucci as an impossibly smitten and encouraging spouse (and, again, probable spy, a plot line not in the movie).  Ephorn had the cast eat actual, five-star prepared food in the movie so all of their reactions (and weight gain) are legit. Kind of a cool to ditch the spit buckets on set. Ephron's early work was as a food writer. So it's one movie that meshes two completely different books together. Does it work? Find out. Ken and Jack are joined once again by Streep super stan, Andi. 

THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.

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