Word: hoppers
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...arena in which funky new machines have come into play. “Instead of having a chicken marinate for two days,” Allen says, “we can marinate 500 pounds of chicken in 15 minutes” in what resembles a stainless steel bingo hopper. Allen kindly asks us not to photograph the remnants of raw chicken inside. We oblige...
...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, yeast and coconut milk, hoppers are usually eaten with spicy sambol sauces or just a fried egg plopped in the center. They're quite light, so you'll want to order...
Let’s Go travel guides are for the rugged adventurer or the budget-conscious hostel-hopper who savvily wants to make his way through a city’s hidden secrets. The Four Seasons is not on the itinerary. But for one former Paris research-writer, doing it on a shoestring was not the order of the day when he asked his lady love to be his wife...
Nicholas Ray’s 1955 social statement is badly written, badly acted and badly dated. Some of its scenes are put together wonderfully—particularly the nighttime car race—and there’s also the treat of a very early turn from Dennis Hopper. But, at its core, this is a movie where James Dean screws up his wax sculpture of a face and screams, “You’re tearing me apart!”—a movie that mistakes cheap melodrama for genuine humanity and whose worldview...
Most times, though, there's a smile on that craggy face. These days the hard-to-please Penn is invigorated by his life both at home--with his wife, actress Robin Wright Penn, and their children, daughter Dylan, 12, and son Hopper Jack, 10--and on the set. "I'm pretty engaged with everything in my life right now," he says. "I haven't always been like this," he adds, unnecessarily. Fate has been treating Penn well recently, and he's returning the favor...