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...appetite for more Lecter movies, the $80 million Red Dragon almost didn't get made. "Hannibal was a big hit," says an agent, "but most people in Hollywood thought it was an awful movie that almost killed the franchise." With its baroque gore and pitch-black humor (Ray Liotta ate his own brains), the movie was jarring compared with the more subtle Lambs, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. And even though Manhunter made peanuts at the box office, it is highly regarded by some filmmakers...
...calls "an abandoned theme park." He and his wife stop at a desolate restaurant to scarf down some food, while Chihiro goes wandering in the park. When she returns, she is shocked to find her parents have turned into swine. (We later learn they were bewitched because "they ate like pigs"; at this theme park, you are how you eat.) The frightened Chihiro realizes she is a prisoner in a sort of ghost spa--a Bathhouse on Haunted Hill--where she must tap unused reserves of courage and ingenuity to escape. She will discover that growing up means more than...
After my studio tours, I met photographer Li Chaoyin for lunch. We took a stroll down Shizi Qiao, the lively pedestrian-only street below his studio, which is Nanjing's choice spot for people watching. We ate at Nanjing Dapaidang, a vast restaurant made up of several tiny kitchens. Everything looked and smelled delicious. We selected carefully: tiny, crisp shrimp in a mandarin orange juice concentrate; rice and pork steamed inside bamboo rods; and for dessert, a candy-sweet, whole steamed pear...
...hunting trips--heaping dishes of moose, elk and deer. But in 1993 Waterhouse died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a brain disorder that can be triggered by mad-cow disease, and within six years, two of his fellow feastgoers had also died of rare brain disorders. Was the game they ate to blame? That's what Wisconsin health authorities--and now the Centers for Disease Control--want to know...
Even if investigators find a link between the Wisconsin outdoorsmen and the game they ate, it won't necessarily lead to a mad cow-type epidemic. Americans, after all, eat a lot more hamburger than they do venison...