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...near-loathing of the vast majority of 50s accoutrements has not kept me from latching onto one particular 50s icon: the drive-in movie theater. Ironically, up until recently, my entire conception of drive-in culture came from movies themselves—and just a few films, too, which I could probably count on a single hand. But it’s what I didn’t know about the drive-in—the mystery of its appeal—that so appealed...
...your car. Any time of day or night, you'll find dozens of cars parked out front, while waiters in white sarongs scurry from the kitchen to the kerb, bearing trays of steaming, spicy curries and serving customers through their open car windows as in a '50s American drive-in burger joint. But that's the only Westernized touch at Hotel de Pilawoos?the food, happily, makes no such concessions. The house specialty is that sublime Sri Lankan staple, the hopper?a wafer-thin, bowl-shaped pancake with a crisp surround and soft spongy center. Made out of rice flour...
EVEN FASTER FOOD With its juicy burgers and extra-thick shakes, this Burgermaster, near Seattle, has lots of old-fashioned appeal. But the drive-in burger shop is surprisingly high-tech: waitresses punch orders into wi-fi-enabled Compaq iPaq handhelds. The typical meal takes just seven minutes to go from the iPaq to your...
...will be guys--and their little brothers--who will be lining up on Friday nights all summer, stoking the grosses of the car-chase films and guaranteeing that next year there will be even more. Now if only they'd bring back the drive-in movie theater. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...that sex could sell if it spoke in a foreign accent; Meyer saw it could sell if it offered an unbuttoned version of steamy Hollywood melodrama. Working opposite sides of the sexploitation street, the two men elevated the genre from the grindhouse to the art house and the drive-in. Eventually, as noted, Meyer's films graduated from the agricultural school frat house to the Yale film society. Metzger's films, which were thoughtfully reviewed by Vincent Canby in the New York Times and Schickel in Life, never quite acquired the Meyer cachet - perhaps because his pictures needed...