Well the interview went well. I should get a call later next week for a 3rd interview. She said she got THOUSANDS of resumes. I'm not terribly hopeful, but we'll see.
Had a fabulous day with Ricky today. Went and got my hair did. It looks BEEE-YOO-TEE-FULL! I loves it! Now i need colour in it;) maybe pink, blue or purkle lol!!!
heading out to the Lions game tonight with my mom (in like 2 minutes) I'm so glad Football is back!!!!!!!!!!
8/13/04
this is so sad *sniffle* She annoyed me sometimesto watch, but she was brilliant and a true pioneer.
NATIONAL
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Julia Child dies at age 91
By JENNIFER SERGENT
Scripps Howard News Service
August 13, 2004
- Julia Child, who died Friday at age 91 at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., was as modest as her influence was vast. Her reputation as grande dame of French cuisine who brought Americans out of the culinary dark ages was far grander than her ego.
She was the first chef ever to win the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor for life achievement. She had never heard of the honor, however, when she received it in 2003. "That's fine," she said, in an understated reaction.
And while most people credit her first cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," as a tour de force in that genre, Child shrugged it off.
"I was just writing my impressions of French cooking," she said, 40 years, nine cooking shows and 12 more cookbooks later. "The intent was just to get people cooking in the French way."
The French way, she explained in an interview, was not so much using specific ingredients as it was "taking food seriously and spending time over it."
Her example paved the way for celebrity chefs to thrive in all forms of cuisine and for general interest in cooking to rise to a level that would support something like the Food Network - 24 hours of nothing but food shows.
Yet there might be some truth to her statement late in life that she really never intended any of it.
The press release accompanying her first cooking show, "The French Chef," illustrates the humble goals she held at the outset.
The show was styled as "a series tailored expressly for the busy American homemaker, and everyone who loves good food but has never thought there was time to prepare it.
"Things happen in Julia Child's kitchen just the way they do in anyone's home - the butter is misplaced, fillings drool, the lighted brandy singes her hair, she can't find her glasses - but she handles everything with a sense of humor and a disarming frankness."
Hardly the stuff of five-star restaurants.
Yet her legacy goes hand in hand with haute cuisine:
- She was the co-founder in 1981 of the American Institute of Wine and Food.
- In 1985, she sought to preserve the home of James Beard, known as the father of American gastronomy and a longtime mentor to emerging talents in the culinary field. The James Beard House in New York's Greenwich Village hosts visiting chefs in its dining room, and the James Beard Foundation provides scholarships and educational opportunities to up-and-coming chefs.
- Child was a driving force behind the establishment of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. The association's annual cookbook awards are named after her.
- She also lent hearty support to the establishment of Copia: the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa, Calif. Child donated her famous pots and pans from her Cambridge, Mass., home to the center when she retired and moved to an assisted living center in Santa Barbara, Calif. The center, which explores "the culture of the collective table," named its restaurant after her.
- In addition to receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, she also received the top national civilian honor from France in 2000, the Legion of Honor.
- The Smithsonian Institution immortalized her famous home kitchen in 2002, rebuilding it in an exhibit at the National Museum of American History.
Child's longtime television producer, Russell Morash, said it's hard to exaggerate just how bad American cuisine was before Child hit the bookshelves and airwaves.
"Cooking on TV prior to Julia's appearance in the 1960s was more often by very stout women in white dresses and sensible shoes," he said, describing popular food of that time as "heavy, doughy trash."
Child's television career began when she made an appearance for "Mastering the Art of Fine Cooking." She asked for a hot plate. She brought eggs. She proceeded to make an omelet on television. That humble act is now regarded as a milestone.
"It was absolutely fantastic," Morash said. "Here comes a woman talking about things Americans knew nothing about."
As her career progressed and she went on to host several different cooking series on public television, she created the much-heralded "Cooking with Master Chefs" series in which she invited well-known chefs into her Cambridge kitchen to showcase their talent and cooking style.
She received two Emmys for that series in 1995, in addition to one for her "Baking with Julia" series in 1997. She received a Peabody Award - the top honor for radio and broadcast - in 1999.
Child was born Julia McWilliams in Pasadena, Calif., on Aug. 15, 1912. After her 1934 graduation from Smith College in Massachusetts, she moved to New York to work in publicity and advertising briefly before volunteering with the Office of Strategic Services during the war. The job took her to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and China, where she met her husband, Paul Child.
Paul Child's assignment as cultural attache to France took them to Paris after World War II, and his demanding palette led her to study at the Cordon Bleu. Soon after, she and two friends, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, started L'Ecole Des Trois Gourmandes, teaching straight out of their kitchens.
After many years in Paris, the three women compiled their collective knowledge into "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." The Childs returned to the States, and the rest is well-known culinary history.
Child credited her popularity not for any personal talent but because she was in the right place at the right time.
America was already collectively fascinated with first lady Jackie Kennedy - and the fact she had hired a French chef to lead the White House kitchen. Air travel was getting popular and Americans were starting to look outside their borders at other cultures.
"I think we were beginning to emerge from our cocoon, and I just helped that emergence," she said.
While she opened the door to an age now where some chefs are as famous as movie stars, Child was ambivalent about the celebrity status.
"It's fine, if the focus is on cooking," she said. "I don't think they'll get very far if they don't pay attention to what they're cooking."
And indeed, she said she preferred not to be remembered as any kind of celebrity.
"I want (the history book) to say that I was a teacher and that I was teaching French cooking. It's serious business, but it's fun."
NATIONAL
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Julia Child dies at age 91
By JENNIFER SERGENT
Scripps Howard News Service
August 13, 2004
- Julia Child, who died Friday at age 91 at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., was as modest as her influence was vast. Her reputation as grande dame of French cuisine who brought Americans out of the culinary dark ages was far grander than her ego.
She was the first chef ever to win the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor for life achievement. She had never heard of the honor, however, when she received it in 2003. "That's fine," she said, in an understated reaction.
And while most people credit her first cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," as a tour de force in that genre, Child shrugged it off.
"I was just writing my impressions of French cooking," she said, 40 years, nine cooking shows and 12 more cookbooks later. "The intent was just to get people cooking in the French way."
The French way, she explained in an interview, was not so much using specific ingredients as it was "taking food seriously and spending time over it."
Her example paved the way for celebrity chefs to thrive in all forms of cuisine and for general interest in cooking to rise to a level that would support something like the Food Network - 24 hours of nothing but food shows.
Yet there might be some truth to her statement late in life that she really never intended any of it.
The press release accompanying her first cooking show, "The French Chef," illustrates the humble goals she held at the outset.
The show was styled as "a series tailored expressly for the busy American homemaker, and everyone who loves good food but has never thought there was time to prepare it.
"Things happen in Julia Child's kitchen just the way they do in anyone's home - the butter is misplaced, fillings drool, the lighted brandy singes her hair, she can't find her glasses - but she handles everything with a sense of humor and a disarming frankness."
Hardly the stuff of five-star restaurants.
Yet her legacy goes hand in hand with haute cuisine:
- She was the co-founder in 1981 of the American Institute of Wine and Food.
- In 1985, she sought to preserve the home of James Beard, known as the father of American gastronomy and a longtime mentor to emerging talents in the culinary field. The James Beard House in New York's Greenwich Village hosts visiting chefs in its dining room, and the James Beard Foundation provides scholarships and educational opportunities to up-and-coming chefs.
- Child was a driving force behind the establishment of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. The association's annual cookbook awards are named after her.
- She also lent hearty support to the establishment of Copia: the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa, Calif. Child donated her famous pots and pans from her Cambridge, Mass., home to the center when she retired and moved to an assisted living center in Santa Barbara, Calif. The center, which explores "the culture of the collective table," named its restaurant after her.
- In addition to receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, she also received the top national civilian honor from France in 2000, the Legion of Honor.
- The Smithsonian Institution immortalized her famous home kitchen in 2002, rebuilding it in an exhibit at the National Museum of American History.
Child's longtime television producer, Russell Morash, said it's hard to exaggerate just how bad American cuisine was before Child hit the bookshelves and airwaves.
"Cooking on TV prior to Julia's appearance in the 1960s was more often by very stout women in white dresses and sensible shoes," he said, describing popular food of that time as "heavy, doughy trash."
Child's television career began when she made an appearance for "Mastering the Art of Fine Cooking." She asked for a hot plate. She brought eggs. She proceeded to make an omelet on television. That humble act is now regarded as a milestone.
"It was absolutely fantastic," Morash said. "Here comes a woman talking about things Americans knew nothing about."
As her career progressed and she went on to host several different cooking series on public television, she created the much-heralded "Cooking with Master Chefs" series in which she invited well-known chefs into her Cambridge kitchen to showcase their talent and cooking style.
She received two Emmys for that series in 1995, in addition to one for her "Baking with Julia" series in 1997. She received a Peabody Award - the top honor for radio and broadcast - in 1999.
Child was born Julia McWilliams in Pasadena, Calif., on Aug. 15, 1912. After her 1934 graduation from Smith College in Massachusetts, she moved to New York to work in publicity and advertising briefly before volunteering with the Office of Strategic Services during the war. The job took her to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and China, where she met her husband, Paul Child.
Paul Child's assignment as cultural attache to France took them to Paris after World War II, and his demanding palette led her to study at the Cordon Bleu. Soon after, she and two friends, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, started L'Ecole Des Trois Gourmandes, teaching straight out of their kitchens.
After many years in Paris, the three women compiled their collective knowledge into "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." The Childs returned to the States, and the rest is well-known culinary history.
Child credited her popularity not for any personal talent but because she was in the right place at the right time.
America was already collectively fascinated with first lady Jackie Kennedy - and the fact she had hired a French chef to lead the White House kitchen. Air travel was getting popular and Americans were starting to look outside their borders at other cultures.
"I think we were beginning to emerge from our cocoon, and I just helped that emergence," she said.
While she opened the door to an age now where some chefs are as famous as movie stars, Child was ambivalent about the celebrity status.
"It's fine, if the focus is on cooking," she said. "I don't think they'll get very far if they don't pay attention to what they're cooking."
And indeed, she said she preferred not to be remembered as any kind of celebrity.
"I want (the history book) to say that I was a teacher and that I was teaching French cooking. It's serious business, but it's fun."
8/12/04
Well i think i figured out why my computer was doing that to me. A virus. I did a windows update and it gave me some virus removal tool as an option to DL and it only does that if you have it. So i installed, rebooted, and I'm fine now. So much I've missed writing tho... Like when my Uncle Ed called here last week Thursday. I miss him so much!!!!
I'm on my way now to a job interview. December's Special. Permanent Parttime. It's accounting work, but also many other jobs. I think I could fit in well there. So wish me luck. I'll let you know how it goes when i get back!
*huggles*
I'm on my way now to a job interview. December's Special. Permanent Parttime. It's accounting work, but also many other jobs. I think I could fit in well there. So wish me luck. I'll let you know how it goes when i get back!
*huggles*
8/9/04
WTTW11 to Offer Tickets for SPAMALOT
I WANNA LIVE IN CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!
WTTW11 to Offer Tickets for SPAMALOT: "Press ReleaseSource: WTTW11
Press Release Source: WTTW11
WTTW11 to Offer Tickets for SPAMALOT
Wednesday August 4, 12:30 pm ET
Exclusive Pre-Broadway Engagement for Monty Python Musical
Special WTTW11 Member Night on December 28
CHICAGO, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- On the evening of Thursday, August 12, as part of its membership drive, WTTW11 will offer individual tickets for the upcoming pre-Broadway engagement of the new musical MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT, at Broadway In Chicago's Shubert Theatre.
ADVERTISEMENT
WTTW11 will make a limited number of tickets available during its pledge drive on August 12 to a special WTTW11 Night at SPAMALOT on December 28. The tickets will be offered during an airing of Broadway's Lost Treasures beginning at 7:30 p.m., and this will be one of the very few opportunities for audience members to secure individual tickets prior to September 13, when they go on sale to the general public.
SPAMALOT begins performances at the Shubert Theatre, 22 W. Monroe, on December 21, and plays through January 16. As was the case with The Producers (the new Mel Brooks musical), this is a limited engagement, and the only pre-Broadway tryout for this production, which must start New York previews on February 7 with a scheduled opening at Broadway's Shubert Theatre on March 10.
Directed by Mike Nichols, SPAMALOT features a book by Eric Idle, based on the screenplay of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Monty Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, with an entirely new score featuring music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, along with three songs from the 1975 film. SPAMALOT will star Emmy Award-winner David Hyde Pierce (Sir Robin) who is best known from television's Frasier; two time Tony Award-nominee Tim Curry (King Arthur), who rose to international fame with the Broadway hit The Rocky Horror Show and subsequent film Rocky Horror Picture Show; and Hank Azaria (Sir Lancelot), Emmy Award-winner for The Simpsons and star of television shows and films. Additional casting will be announced shortly.
Broadway's Lost Treasures features rare highlights from past Tony Awards ceremonies, and includes musical numbers from Anything Goes, Sweet Charity, Mame, The Man of LaMancha, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Guys and Dolls, LaCage Aux Folles, Les Miserables, Carousel and more. Performers featured include Angela Lansbury, Gregory Hines, Jerry Orbach, Nathan Lane, Chita Rivera and a host of others.
Now its fifth decade, WTTW11 reaches 4,000,000 viewers a month over four states and enjoys the largest public television audience in the nation. It is the most-watched television station in Chicago by children aged 2-11.
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Source: WTTW11
WTTW11 to Offer Tickets for SPAMALOT: "Press ReleaseSource: WTTW11
Press Release Source: WTTW11
WTTW11 to Offer Tickets for SPAMALOT
Wednesday August 4, 12:30 pm ET
Exclusive Pre-Broadway Engagement for Monty Python Musical
Special WTTW11 Member Night on December 28
CHICAGO, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- On the evening of Thursday, August 12, as part of its membership drive, WTTW11 will offer individual tickets for the upcoming pre-Broadway engagement of the new musical MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT, at Broadway In Chicago's Shubert Theatre.
ADVERTISEMENT
WTTW11 will make a limited number of tickets available during its pledge drive on August 12 to a special WTTW11 Night at SPAMALOT on December 28. The tickets will be offered during an airing of Broadway's Lost Treasures beginning at 7:30 p.m., and this will be one of the very few opportunities for audience members to secure individual tickets prior to September 13, when they go on sale to the general public.
SPAMALOT begins performances at the Shubert Theatre, 22 W. Monroe, on December 21, and plays through January 16. As was the case with The Producers (the new Mel Brooks musical), this is a limited engagement, and the only pre-Broadway tryout for this production, which must start New York previews on February 7 with a scheduled opening at Broadway's Shubert Theatre on March 10.
Directed by Mike Nichols, SPAMALOT features a book by Eric Idle, based on the screenplay of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Monty Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, with an entirely new score featuring music and lyrics by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, along with three songs from the 1975 film. SPAMALOT will star Emmy Award-winner David Hyde Pierce (Sir Robin) who is best known from television's Frasier; two time Tony Award-nominee Tim Curry (King Arthur), who rose to international fame with the Broadway hit The Rocky Horror Show and subsequent film Rocky Horror Picture Show; and Hank Azaria (Sir Lancelot), Emmy Award-winner for The Simpsons and star of television shows and films. Additional casting will be announced shortly.
Broadway's Lost Treasures features rare highlights from past Tony Awards ceremonies, and includes musical numbers from Anything Goes, Sweet Charity, Mame, The Man of LaMancha, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Guys and Dolls, LaCage Aux Folles, Les Miserables, Carousel and more. Performers featured include Angela Lansbury, Gregory Hines, Jerry Orbach, Nathan Lane, Chita Rivera and a host of others.
Now its fifth decade, WTTW11 reaches 4,000,000 viewers a month over four states and enjoys the largest public television audience in the nation. It is the most-watched television station in Chicago by children aged 2-11.
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Source: WTTW11
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