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Tucked underground on JFK St. across from the Sony Janus movie theater, Scoops & Beans features Christina's homemade ice cream. You no longer have to trek to Inman Square to find this ice cream lover's delight...
...Christina's offers a Cambridge original: Burnt Sugar ice cream, a flavor developed by a Lesley College professor who came here from Cambridge, England. Burnt Sugar tastes just like the top of a creme brulee. Its texture is firm, smooth and dense--just what an ice cream should be. Like some of the other flavors we tried, it would be just as tasty in the midst of a cold, icy Harvard winter. You do need to know, though, that Burnt Sugar is not overpoweringly sweet--in fact, it has a bitter edge...
...film offers seven characters in search of a spanking. The main miscreant is Dedee (Christina Ricci), 16-year-old tornado-park trash from Louisiana. Think of all the black widows and blond minxes from old film noir, give them the mouth of a Quentin Tarantino tough, and you have Dedee--not only in your face but down your throat. In the film's first 15 minutes, she desecrates her stepfather's grave, runs away from home with her one-testicled boyfriend, dumps him to visit her gay half brother, seduces his boyfriend and declares she's pregnant...
...Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 200 Cigarettes and Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66, Ricci has no interest in acting lessons. "It's my job--why would I want to do it in my free time?" She has already achieved so much so soon: she's been, and become, Christina Ricci...
...moon-princess luster, she is the heir to Winona Ryder. As an icon of indie film, she's a teen Parker Posey. But don't waste comparisons on Christina Ricci. At 18, she is her own, clever young actress grown up onscreen from the gothic child playing with dead things in Casper and The Addams Family to the buxom blond in The Opposite of Sex. "I love her access to her dark places," says Sex auteur Don Roos. "There's a very mature, adult mind behind that childlike face...