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"Haven't seen book or movie yet but regarding caricature, the subject invites it.  Since her death, some people are inclined to make a saint of JC (relics of the True Kitchen were even reverently displayed at the Copia museum).  Parts of her life like her OSS service in Ceylon in WW2, mundane in her own accounts that I saw, and in Fitch's original biography and other writings (JC worked as a file clerk there and by some accounts, a fairly inept one) can be cheaply spun for drama (wartime spy!).  Despite actual gastronomic angles from that time (the \"flied lice with mix\" from the local restaurateur, mentioned in her 1970s cookbook FJCC -- is that interesting detail in the movie??) Peter if you mean the hour-long A&amp;E Biography TV program, that aired in (IIRC) March 1997 while JC was very much alive.  It was an independent production, and at least parts of it were filmed in 1996.  Of course it was re-broadcast after her 2004 death, and at other times (and presumably will be again, whenever new interest in JC surfaces).  I thought it was good too, including the part where JC's sister describes the three siblings, all of them six feet two inches tall, and her mother's accounting of producing \"eighteen and a half feet of children.\" \n"
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