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Our cat Maxine died last week at the age of 17 without ever knowing that she’d been portrayed on the big screen. In mourning her this week, I can’t help but think about the movie version of Maxine with mixed feelings. Julie & Julia—well, half of it, anyway—is based on my 2005 memoir of the same name, and in that book, Maxine played a not-inconsiderable role.
In the film, screenwriter/director Nora Ephron had to cram into two hours the stories of two very different women in different eras: the great Julia Child on one side of the Atlantic, and little 'ole me on the other. Thankfully, she managed to squeeze in the character of Julie Powell’s cat as something more than a walk-on. My brother didn’t get as much screen time—and neither, I can’t help noticing, did Julia’s own cat, Minette. I’m grateful that Maxine got into the movie at all. Still, as the Julie Powell character—played by the excellent, un-me-like Amy Adams—pouts in the film, while discussing the depiction of herself in a (fictional, by the way) New York magazine article, “There was so much more!”
“Maxine”—she remains unnamed in the credits, but there is no question of who the character is based on—is played by a vivacious, ginger-coated animal actor named Terry, with sass and a jaunty trot. Terry is a fine cat, well-trained, who manages to make the character of “Maxine” likeable, memorable, and not too cutesy—quite a feat given the limitations of the script. Terry has a couple of important scenes: She is masterful, for instance, as the watchful kitty who first notices the boeuf bourguignon is burning while “Julie Powell” lays passed out on the couch after too many gimlets (that part is totally true, by the way). But the role reflects very little of the real Maxine. It’s not just that the two felines look nothing alike—Maxine was, in her prime, a zaftig girl, white with cunning black spots; Terry, I suspect, is a tom. It’s also that Nora had no time, given the ambitious double storyline of the movie, to invest “Maxine” with much in the way of character. What we see is not the sardonic, complicated, talented cat of my longtime acquaintance, but a sweet, thin, red-headed doll of a thing who watches old episodes of The French Chef with her head pertly cocked, as if to echo the words of her owner, “Julie Powell,” regarding Julia Child: “Isn’t she adorable?”
The trouble is, I would never say something like “Isn’t Julia Child adorable?” Julia Child, for chrissakes, this literal and figurative giant of a woman who changed the lives of thousands and the entire American culinary landscape ... adorable? And neither would Maxine. Maxine had a wry sense of humor, great self-awareness as well as an occasional (OK, more than occasional) tendency toward self-importance, and literary ambitions to boot. Her favorite game—in fact, the only one she’d deign to play—involved smartly batting any writing utensil in front of her off the table ledge. She’d do this for hours. And the thing was, she was doing it for love. She wasn’t thinking to herself, “If I get good enough at this I’m going to be a YouTube sensation.” She was simply thinking, “I love pens. I love knocking them off tables. And you know what, it turns out I’m damned good at it!”
She also had a profound appreciation of iambic pentameter. Seriously, I’m not making that up.
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