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...love TV cooking shows. For my money, Julia Child is on a par with the Pope. (Can't you just see the two of them making pierogi together?) Martha Stewart scares me, but every once in a while I join her 2 million other weekday viewers, just to gauge my inadequacies. I'm also hoping to win the lottery someday. I refer, of course, to the lottery for tickets to Emeril Live!, the hottest offering on the Food Network. For every week of tapings, the network says, it receives 150,000 requests for just 1,500 seats...
...restaurant is about to go under, until a mysterious man shows up and sells her a basket of live crabs. One escapes and leads her to Tim Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flanery), who becomes--surprise!--Amanda's new love interest. Suddenly, Amanda is whipping up fancy dishes to put Julia Child to shame--whatever Amanda is feeling as she makes them goes into the food. This leads to a few funny scenes, particularly when Tim and his girlfriend eat at the restaurant, It's a one-trick pony, but the film makes as much good use of the gag as could...
...Wham! Pow! Zap! Quincy House non-resident tutor and former librarian Julia S. Rubin '84 estimates the Qube's hulking collection to include at least 5,000 titles. Volumes range from old-school-classics like Batman to fresh-off-the press X-Men. Some are yellowed and faded, others shiny and prime for paper-cuttage; every character, from the Avengers to the X-Men, exercises powers even the most ambitious Harvard student can't access...
...With reporting by Julia Powell, CNN/La Ceiba
...favorite word, complicated. Everything was complicated, Trilling would insist, his emphasis lingering on the first syllable. Of Hellman, Podhoretz finds surprisingly pleasant things to say--she was a wonderful cook, she was great company, "playful, mischievous, bitchy, earthy, and always up for a laugh." But her extraordinary lies (the "Julia" story, for example) and her habit of self-glorification--herself presented as saint and martyr in the memoirs An Unfinished Woman, Scoundrel Time and elsewhere--were to Podhoretz symptoms of corruption and dishonor. Podhoretz admired Arendt but eventually broke with her over her famous New Yorker articles on the Adolf...