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"Amy Adams: Her Allure Photo Shoot\\nFor a former Hooters girl once accustomed to wearing cutoff shorts, Amy Adams looked remarkably at ease in the various couture pieces she wore for Allure&amp;#39;s August cover story.\\nIn her upcoming film *Julie &amp; Julia*, Amy Adams's character spends a year cooking her way through Julia Child's *Mastering the Art of French Cooking* (Little, Brown, and Co.). The role was quite a challenge for Adams, who hasn't spent much time in the kitchen. \\\"If it's something you see me do in the film, I learned how to do it. I learned how to poach an egg\u2014which actually is a talent that comes in handy,\\\" says the actress, shown here in a silk crepe dress by Calvin Klein Collection.\\n\\\"This is nothing compared to the one I wore for *Enchanted*,\\\" says Adams of the voluminous Dior Haute Couture silk taffeta gown. \\\"That dress had a life of its own.\\\" Here, the actress gets ready for a shot as hairstylist Odile Gilbert arranges her extensions.\\nDespite her success as an actress\u2014she has two Oscar nominations to her name\u2014it still feels odd for Adams to think of herself as a celebrity. \\\"You see yourself onscreen, or you see pictures of yourself, and it can get really heady,\\\" she explains. \\\"I don't think human beings are supposed to look at themselves that much.\\\" Here, Adams poses in a silk dress from Chlo\u00E9.\\n\\\"Amy has the best hair\u2014very thick and not too curly or too straight,\\\" says hairstylist Odile Gilbert. For the shoot, she blew the actress's hair dry with a round brush, adding a bit of bend at the ends. Next, Gilbert spritzed hair spray all over for shine, and combed her fingers through Adams's hair to \\\"bring it to life.\\\"\\nAdams has been engaged to actor Darren Le Gallo for a year, but hasn't set a wedding date yet. \\\"I've been really busy, and I feel like a horrible fianc\u00E9e that I haven't gotten swept up in the whole idea of a wedding. But I just haven't,\\\" she admits. That's not to say that Adams isn't head-over-heels. \\\"Once you have a great man in your life, it allows you\u2014at least for me\u2014to look at yourself and grow as an individual,\\\" she says. \\\"If I had known I was going to find this, my early 20s would have been completely different.\\\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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