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...Silence of the Lambs. The critically acclaimed thriller not only salvaged Hopkins' lagging movie career, it also catapulted him from character actor to bona fide movie star. The movie won five Oscars--including Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster) and Best Picture--and took a huge bite out of the box office. A decade later, the slickly subdued, eerily serene Dr. Hannibal Lecter still inhabits our nightmares because Hopkins knows that as an actor, "the quieter you are, the more terrifying...
...testa is far better than it sounds--like a fatty but delicately flavored sausage, topped with a little vinegar salad for bite. But is that really what passes for fine food in New York City? No, and that's Batali's point: he is serving dishes most fancy restaurants in the U.S. wouldn't dare to put before high-paying customers...
Then there's breakout star Steve Irwin of The Crocodile Hunter, who captures everything delightful and dodgy about Animal Planet. A personable Australian with Barney Rubble-esque good looks, Irwin trots the globe to wrestle crocs and dangle poisonous snakes by the tail, evading bite after bite, narrating breathlessly and popeyed as if reading a scary story to a three-year-old. ("G'day, and welcome to the Dah-h-hk Continent!") His antics give kids--an A.P. target audience--an educational alternative to Dragon Ball Z, and he offers a conservationist message. But his show's lessons are pretty...
...Thanks, we're good," we said as we chewed greedily. But the dishes kept coming, each one more elaborate than the last. "Not another bite," "Why don't you sit down," we pleaded. But Clinton, it appeared, had been cooking for weeks. And finally, just as we were loosening our belts and picking lazily at that piece of Travelgate between our teeth, Clinton wheeled out the flaming Baked Alaska that was Monica Lewinsky...
...Technological developments are a further hallmark of this past millennium. We have developed the three-field system, cultivating great fields of legumes to replenish the soil and increase our food supply. We have created the heavy iron plow, which can bite through the heavy earth of Northern Europe. We have even unleashed the mighty power of the horse, with a new stirrup for shock combat and a collar that enables horses to pull heavy weights without choking them to death...