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...dinners, supervised in turn by Vergé, Guérard and Bocuse, were crowned by such main courses as fondue de gigot d'agneau aux aubergines, volatile de Bresse and aiguillette de caneton au vin de Graves, for a total of 19 courses. Guerard's meal was adjudged the best of the trip by Gault, who gave it 19¾ points out of a possible 20. Fortunately, reported TIME'S gourmet-onboard, George Taber, dinner was over before a storm hit the Gulf of Genoa, sending many of the guests to their cabins...
There is a heavy load of sentimentality in Gigot (1962), but Jackie Gleason's moving performance as the mute hero verges on genius...
...enough to keep at it for hours. Says Frank Sinatra, whom Kelly directed in On the Town: "The guy just never heard of exhaustion." But he has heard about charm, and he can crack the whip without stinging the ego. When he teamed up with Jackie Gleason to film Gigot in 1961, the trade waited expectantly for the Great One to unload his celebrated wrath on the demanding director. Instead, Kelly had Gleason puffing up and down a flight of stairs like a trained St. Bernard and Jackie begrudgingly tacked a reminder on his dressing-room door: GENE KELLY...
...container, and all she had to do was warm it up," says exurban New York Matron Maria Cunningham, 31. Not Maria. Veal, lamb and chicken are her favorites, and she and her husband like Julia's recipes for saute de veau Marengo, gigot de pre-sale roti a la moutarde, and supreme de volatile aux champignons, which they served recently at a dinner for 22. Says Maria: "The only thing that made it possible is that Julia tells all the things you can do in advance...
...Gigot. Jackie Gleason wallows and blubbers through this maudlin comedy set in Paris, and is so monumentally unwashed that audiences might wish some of the film's soapy sentiment had got behind the hero's ears...