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...Soft-spoken and pacific, Lee is as well known in Hollywood for his modesty as he is for his protean talent. It's hard to square volcanic passions, after all, with a man who once told an interviewer that one of his favorite restaurants was KFC. Lee's movies, too, often revolve around the repression of overwhelming emotion. In his wuxia epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, swords and fists became stand-ins for everything the martial characters couldn't say. Brokeback Mountain's cowboys suffered for love they could not acknowledge. Even Lee's Hulk was an exploration of suppressed...
Anyone who's ever eaten fast food, on the other hand, will warm to David Novak. The head of Yum! Brands, the largest restaurant chain in the world (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut), has written a feel-good memoir called The Education of an Accidental CEO. The son of an itinerant government surveyor, Novak attributes his corporate dexterity to having lived in 32 trailer parks by seventh grade. Although he leads a company with nearly 1 million employees, there is a gee-whiz quality to his writing: "We had a blast at Pizza Hut. It is so much...
...sweeter." Likewise, Kilts believes in the power of the executive touch: "Small things--a hamburger at a fast-food restaurant, a hot dog at a roadside stand or a meeting at your home--can create a lifelong remembrance." But Novak is the sappiest. At the helm of KFC, he carried around floppy rubber chickens in his briefcase, so he could give them out and surprise a deserving employee. Novak would then autograph the chicken and hand the befuddled employee a crisp hundred-dollar bill. Which brings up the obvious: no stunt or roadside chat says "Thank you" quite as well...
Back when wine was an elitist beverage, those dusty bottles labeled with geographic descriptors and family emblems made sense. But the rigmarole we go through in order to wash down our KFC with some pinot grigio makes about as much sense as decanting a Red Bull. So winemakers are now putting their goods in juice boxes, aluminum cans like Sofia Coppola's super-hip champagne, which comes with a straw, and--in the latest packaging innovation--plastic bottles. By Mardi Gras, someone will undoubtedly be selling an oenophile's version of those drinking helmets with dual bottle holders and straws...
...world conquered, and precocious undergraduates from Sydney to San Francisco at his feet, the postmodernist master dismisses the foreign adulation with a tired hand, and finds himself returning to the world of his parents and his birth. Despite the title - and a cameo appearance by Colonel Sanders of KFC fame - 2002's Kafka on the Shore was Murakami's most overtly Japanese novel yet, delving into the florid mysteries of Shinto. He continues his homeward orientation in After Dark, a slip of a novella that explores a single night in and around Tokyo's sleepless Shinjuku district...