One More Time
The other day, I wrote about the song “Time after Time,” which I dearly love, written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, from the 1947 movie It Happened in Brooklyn. It became a standard and has had several dozen recordings made over the decades.
I thought I’d post one of my favorites. Not just for the specific recording – which is wonderful, performed by Margaret Whiting – but mostly for how masterfully and emotionally it’s used at the very end of the 2009 movie, Julie and Julia. In fact, this is such a cleverly-constructed scene, it's one of my favorite "last scenes" in a movie.
A young woman, Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams) has gone to a Smithsonian Institution exhibit re-creating Julia Child's kitchen to honor her hero (who was played by Meryl Streep), after having painstakingly spent a year preparing - and blogging about - every single recipe in the classic cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking that Child struggled for a great many years to co-write and then finally get published.
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