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Copley Place: Copley Plaza, Boston, 266-1300. When Father Was Away On Business: 10, 1, 4, 7, 10; My Other Husband: 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10; Tchao Pantin: 10, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10; Macaroni: 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10; Ninth Configuration: 10:15, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30, 9:45; Return: 10, 11:30, 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10; Sweet Dreams: 7:30, 10; Shoah: parts...
...Macaroni, true to its name, is very much like Mama Leone's spaghetti. The plot starts off solidly enough. Robert Traven (Jack Lemmon) is an American exec on a business trip in Naples, where he had a tour of duty during the Second World War. The stressful monotony of his job has forced him to forget those younger, happier days, until his old friend Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), intrudes on Robert's busy schedule to remind him of old times. Says Antonio to Robert, "Youva become arid, lika desert." Thus begins Antonio's program of re-hydration...
Granted, like Mama Leone's, this movie has a certain Old World "charm." But I probably would have felt better about Macaroni if I waited to see it on cable. After all, homecooked Italian meals always wind up tasting superior and costing much less...
Many failed efforts are simply misunderstood by consumers. When Heublein put its Wine and Dine dinners on sale in the mid-1970s (price: $1.35), buyers thought they were getting a macaroni dinner along with some wine to sip. The wine was actually a salty liquid intended for use in cooking the noodles. Trading on its success with infants, Gerber tried to market such grownup fare as beef burgundy and Mediterranean vegetables. The company's mistake was to put the food in containers that looked like baby-food jars. Gerber compounded its problem by labeling the product SINGLES. Later research...
That night the wake had some gaiety about it. The buffet tables were heaped with ham, turkey, macaroni casserole, tomato aspic and lasagna. David's coffin stood in the drawing room. The guests reminisced about David's brighter sides. Ethel was composed, perhaps because, as a friend says, "she believes he went right up there with his father...