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...located on public floors, and are fitted with clear windows so that tourists can stare at the working experts and leave finger and nose-prints on the glass. My perusal of the first floor revealed much the same fishbowl-like setup for the exhibition-in-progress about Julia Child’s kitchen—an exhibition on which I vaguely recalled I was to work...
...asked politely, I gladly give directions). Had I worked in a glass office, there would not be much to see. About four weeks were continuously spent being very angry with my computer, which crashed incessantly. Another week or so was spent being quite frustrated with the scanner, which made Julia look more like a grayish blob with curly hair than a pioneering television chef. But now that the design phase of the exhibition is complete (and my computer is officially dead, blinking disk and all, for the second time this summer), as an exhibition design intern, my work has dwindled...
...Friday in L.A., and tart-tongued management type Lee (Catherine Keener) is ready to walk out on mousy Carl (David Hyde Pierce), a magazine writer who moonlights with plays and film scripts. His Hitler play opens tonight. His movie is being shot right now with movie star Francesca (Julia Roberts) and rising TV actor Calvin (Blair Underwood). The film's producer, Gus (David Duchovny), turns 40 today and is expected at a birthday party a few hours after he gets a massage from Lee's sister Linda (Mary McCormack). Everyone collides, sexually or emotionally, with everyone else. Collides and contuses...
There's a taut grandeur to Full Frontal, in part because Julia the box-office queen is encased in an ensemble cast of attractive, accomplished actors. And mainly because Hough recombines devious devices of old melodrama and comedy: the love (or hate) letter left to be discovered, two sisters involved in shady dalliances in separate rooms at the same hotel. Hough wraps this all in brittle wit; imagine the coolest cocktail conversation, then put it in a movie...
...didn't acknowledge Warhol and his art either, and so the relatives were left wondering. "I knew he was a painter, but I thought he worked as a house decorator," says Jan Zavacky, 57, a Warhol cousin. In fact, the relatives put so little stock in the value of Julia's correspondence, sketches and even Warhol's famous shoe designs that came in the mail a few times that, at one point, they threw them in the river...