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This evening, Slashfood will be joining Meryl Streep and Amy Adams on the red carpet for the New York premiere of "Julie and Julia"! And naturally we'll be Tweeting, so follow along here or on Twitter.

The movie is Nora Ephron's melding of Julie Powell's "Julie and Julia" and Julia Child's "My Life in France." It opens nationwide on Aug. 7.

But don't forget that you have a chance to see it before anyone else. You have until 2 p.m. Friday to enter to win passes to a screening on Aug. 3 in New York. Just click here to tell us what Julia Child meant to you.

Meryl Streep as Julia Child. Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment

Slashfood got a "Julia and Julia" sneak peak earlier this month, and now a few lucky fans can watch the film nearly a week before its general release.

Just shoot us a comment about how Julia Child influences your cooking. Ten lucky readers will win a pair of passes to a screening on Aug. 3, 2009, in New York City. (Winners must make their own arrangements to get to the theater and should plan to arrive to the theater early because passes do NOT guarantee admittance to the screening. Admittance will be on a first come, first served basis.)

CONTEST RULES

• To enter, leave a confirmed comment below telling us how Julia Child influenced you.
  
• The comment must be left before 2 p.m. ET on Friday, July 31, 2009.
  
• You may enter only once.
  
• Ten winners will be selected in a random drawing.
  
• Each winner will receive a pair of passes to see "Julie and Julia" on Aug. 3, 2009 in New York City. Winners should plan to arrive to the theater early because passes do NOT guarantee admittance to the screening. Admittance will be on a first come, first served basis. Winners must arrange their own transportation to New York.
  
• Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
  
• Click here for complete Official Rules. Winners will be notified by e-mail, so be sure to provide a valid address!

Meryl can do the voice! Slashfood's sister site Moviefone has the trailer for the new Julia Child flick "Julie and Julia," and the two-time Academy Award winning Streep appears to be a delightful "French Chef."

We've been eagerly awaiting Nora Ephron's retelling of Child's story with that of blogger Julie Powell (she spent a year writing about her adventures cooking through "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"), and the trailer has us salivating for more. (We even spied a purchase made at the "Julie and Julia" sale held earlier this month hanging behind Julia!)

You'll have to wait until August to see the film. Till then, "Bon Appetit!"

[Via Moviefone]

Although the film adaption of "Julie & Julia" isn't coming out until August, Julia Child fans are already excited at the prospect of seeing America's most iconic cooking superstar served up onscreen. Following last weekend's sale of the film's props, your devoted Slashfood staff has been searching for images of the upcoming film.

Everything about Julia Child was outsized, from her flamboyant cooking style to her rich, fluttering falsetto, to her famously dry humor. This, after all, was the great chef who started her professional life as a purported spy in the OSS during World War II, became one of the few women to attend Paris' Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, and ended up spearheading a home-cooking movement that transformed American cuisine with her TV show "The French Chef."

Given Child's impressive height (she was 6-foot-2), it's perhaps unsurprising that the majority of her imitators have been men. The most famous was probably Dan Aykroyd on "Saturday Night Live." His repeated exhortation to "Save the liver!" captured Child's forceful personality and occasional tendency toward self-parody. An even better tribute was offered by John Candy, with a spot-on impression of Child boxing with Fred Rogers in "Battle of the PBS Stars" on "SCTV."

Click for more Julia after the jump.