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...cooking and the pleasures of eating, but also on the link between food and sexuality. Throughout “Tampopo,” food itself is treated as a sort of lover. The film examines these themes in a series of vignettes that supplement the main narrative, which follows an inexperienced restaurant owner named Tampopo on her quest to master the art of making the ramen noodle...
Certainly, these performances have other goals besides raking in cash; providing an entertaining program for the audience is an obvious example. While performers alone may not define success in commercial terms, the main measure of a benefit concert is the dollar amount on the check they send to charity. Thus, a great deal of the energy expended in organizing such concerts is devoted to maximizing profit...
Following its initial success, the series faced a seemingly insurmountable problem: unbelievable turnover within the main ensemble. By season four, it had been objectively gutted; two of the three primary characters had departed. Yikes...
...example, the third movie begins with a trip to a psychic who mutters heavy-handed hints to the audience, and any time a female character is introduced, it is a matter of minutes before she enters into a torrid affair with the main character of the moment...
Blowing up the system was the point, of course - and it's the main reason that Ryan has become the GOP's man of the moment. A telegenic supply-side conservative, Ryan cut his teeth as a speechwriter for Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett in the mid-1990s. Even back then, says Wehner, for whom Ryan worked at Empower America, "it was clear that he was a bright star in the constellation." After serving as legislative director for Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, Ryan mounted a successful bid for Wisconsin's First Congressional District seat...