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...movie (which, ludicrously enough, is being released as a Valentine Day's bonbon) never really answers that question. Seems she just had a lot of growing up to do - and a lot more besides. The film also suffers from its flawed central plot device: that story the daddy tells his little girl. It's sanitized, of course - all sexual components cleansed - but even so it is discomfiting. It's a tale most fathers would resist telling a child - maybe even a fully grown one. And the actors have trouble with it. Reynolds can't help looking rather shifty...
...delicious,” her body “vicious,” in fact, you might even say she’s “Fergalicious.” Fundamentally, Fergie treats herself as simply a piece of eye-candy, a buxom bonbon. Visually, the video verges on seizure inducing, with dizzyingly kaleidoscopic scenes. There are also peculiar visuals, such as a svelte and feline sylph painted in pink and purple stripes, looking very much like a human Cheshire Cat. As Fergie and her friends lather up with frosting for soap in a kiddie-pool of cake, it became...
...Saturday Night Live sketch, but it does not sustain a two-hour treatment. After a few scenes, audiences are likely to say, "We get the point." The result is a shallow film about shallow people - a cinematic pastry that leaves a sour taste. As the French would say, ce bonbon...
CHOCOLATE PENGUINS (SET OF 10), $25 At L.A. Burdick www.burdickchocolate.com) the chocolates are made by hand, from your basic truffle or filled bonbon to these nifty penguins made with dark chocolate and lemon. Don't be fooled by the shop's name; it's based in New Hampshire, not California...
...chef hunkers over a circular cutting board, pushing a few small, rosy slices of raw lamb into a pile. Then Wayne Nish begins to chop until he's left with a mound of lamb tartar, which he molds into the shape of a bonbon and arranges on a square white plate, alongside an identical mound of tuna tartar. Between them he dribbles a cascade of osetra caviar, tiny shimmering globules the color of wet seaweed. Aside from a delicate sprig of cilantro, nothing else is on the plate...