I’m a big fan of Julia Child, and have read every biography written about her that I know about. Yet she took charge of life, transforming herself into a woman who was brimming with self-confidence and commanded attention-not because she was a prima donna, but because she was magnetic and knew her stuff. Julia Child, a “larger-than-life” type figure, started out as a less compelling young woman-gangly, awkward and not particularly motivated to go anywhere in particular. A woman’s voice? Yes, he thought, like a cross between Tallulah Bankhead and a slide whistle. It had a quality he’d never heard before-tortured and asthmatic, with an undulating lyrical register that spanned two octaves. Russ Morash, who had answered the telephone in a makeshift office he shared with the volunteers at WGBH-TV, was momentarily startled, not so much by the odd request as by the odder voice. “Now, dearie, I will require a hot plate for my appearance on Professor Duhamel’s program.”
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