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Catchup Room: the wrong room at the Frog Pond...
...Frog Pond: Manhattan's La Grenouille restaurant...
...noise shook green apples off the trees, moved a frog onto the railroad track, jolted nails out of the shingles in the roofs, and the hens in the poultry yards along the route laid premature eggs in fright." With slight Yankee exaggeration, a newspaper in 1885 described the first field day of the Connecticut Drummers Association in Walling ford, Conn. The fifes and drums echo anew each July along the Connecticut River, where sleepy New England villages like Chester, Deep River and Moodus quietly proclaim a heritage as old as the Republic itself. The occasion is the annual Deep River...
...very unappealing. I hate movies that pretend to be arty skinflicks and then don't come through. I Am Curious (Yellow) falls into this category: you see the pair's equipment and you even see them Do It, but it's as exciting as watching the dissection of a frog. My favorite movie love scene was a very brief, certainly non-pornographic, golden. instant in The Immortal Story . She: "Stop. The earth is moving-it's an earthquake." He: "It's not an earthquake." That's all there was, and it might read like bad Hemingway...
...folk tales, the power that changes a frog to a prince is called magic. In life, it is known as nostalgia. Wrapped in it, a newspaper becomes an illuminated manuscript, a vulgar city is transformed into El Dorado. Ben Hecht, once one of the highest-paid scenarists in Hollywood, had a nostalgia factory for a brain; what went in as the apprenticeship of a yellow journalist emerged as gilded celebrations of innocence...