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...mustache and legs like fuzzy yellow pencils. They meet after he answers her ad in a lonely-hearts column, and in this sad, hilarious, faultless little film by Italy's Antonio Pietrangeli, they begin and end in a single day the least hopeful attempt at pairing since the dish ran away with the spoon...
What condemns This Properly is a plot tacked on by three zealous screen writers, to whom the Williams original "suggested" a long, lurid flashback starring Natalie Wood as Alva. During her tenure as main dish at her mother's boarding house for railroad men, Natalie catches her breath occasionally to indicate that she is not long for this whirl. Meanwhile, Kate Reid plays Mama as a sleazy old bagful of Southern comforts who snaps like a lizard whenever Alva mentions striking out alone to taste the high life of Noo Awlyuns...
...oeuvre was wood pigeon with olives. The pigeons were stuffed with beef, veal, sausage, pepper, nutmeg and truffles. After being sauteed, they were put in a casserole to simmer. An hour later, pitless, desalted green olives were added, along with cognac. So highly did Lautrec esteem the dish that his supreme put-down was to say: "They don't deserve my wood pigeon in olives...
...plump, elderly woman who lived near Candlestick Park. "Mama" Johnson took Marichal and Matty Alou into her home as boarders, force-fed them English, lectured them on "Getting Along in America." "If we didn't pay attention to what she said," recalls Alou, "she'd grab her dish mop and give us a swat. She'd tell us, 'You want to make good in this country, you learn to speak English. Nobody makes shaving commercials in Spanish.' " Lonely and homesick, Marichal played Dominican records over and over by the hour. "Finally I had to smash...
...night hotel call girls. And at Little Rock Air Force Base, every airman so inclined knows that he has only to call FRANKLIN 4-2181, ask for "Rocket" or "Houston," and find out if "the ice is on." The price of ice starts at $15 a dish...