The summer hit that opens next week will be – drumroll with wooden spoons – "Julie & Julia." The hilarious and charming film, based on two bestselling books that intertwine the culinary lives of Julia Child and Julie Powell, a contemporary woman blogger, stars Meryl Streep (as Julia), Amy Adams (as Julie),  Stanley Tucci (as Julia’s husband, Paul Child) and Chris Messina (as Julie’s husband).

They were all at the premiere last night at NYC’s Ziegfeld Theatre, hosted by Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman of Sony, who introduced the amazing "writer, director and ‘chef,’" Nora Ephron. (Sir Howard:  Nora Ephron is to New York what butter is to sole meuniere.)

Click here to see photos from last night’s premiere.

Meryl Streep will no doubt win an Academy Award for channeling Julia Child into the wOw woman she really was. But the highlight of the evening (AND, may I add, the movie) was our own wOw woman, Joan Juliet Buck.  While she may have had a small role … it was indelible. As head of Le Cordon Bleu, the French culinary school, and Julia’s mean-spirited (i.e., bitchy) nemesis, Joan turned a small egg white of a role into a magnificent soufflé!

Here’s the trailer … and here, too, is a little part of a Conversation Joan gave us (with Mary Lawrence, myself and Margo Howard), telling of the making of the movie and what it is like to work with Meryl Streep.