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...last wide-release was box-office bomb “Sahara”) treats the audience to a story with such plausibility and intelligence that it evokes a very realistic fear. The film is also co-written and produced by Romero, the godfather of zombie movies (“Night of the Living Dead,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Day of the Dead”) who lends a guiding hand in reimagining his most underrated film...
Cavaradossi, of course, is an artist. So is Tosca: as a celebrated singer, she premieres a cantata on the same night that Scarpia arrests Cavaradossi. Subtler, though, is the way in which Cass’s Scarpia is framed as a sort of artist. Scarpia has an extensive, obsessive conception of the way he wants the world to be, and the elaborate, not entirely rational course of events he plans in order to force himself on Tosca is far more sophisticated than the artistry of either Cavaradossi or Tosca...
...opposed to other ones I've gone to, either as a judge or an observer) was how similar so many of the burgers were. Yes, there were a few exotic ones, like Michael Symon's pastrami-topped Fat Doug burger, which won the People's Choice award, the night's biggest honor. Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto won critical raves for a Kakuni burger topped with Japanese pork belly and served with a house-made pickle so good, it could put Ba-Tampte out of business. And Daniel Boulud served what I thought was the most perfectly constructed burger...
Classic, in fact, was the watchword of the night. "I just wanted to do a straight-up, classic burger," said former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn of Washington's Good Stuff Eatery, the defending champion, clad in a boxer's robe and wearing a giant title belt. "We do classic burgers at Bill's," said Brett Reichler, chef of the upstart Bill's Bar and Burger, a first-time entrant who followed Mendelsohn's lead in having hot models stand around getting out the vote. "What can I say?" said Randy Garutti, czar of Danny Meyer's phenomenally successful Shake...
Washington has always been bad in the eyes of Texas, but more so nowadays than ever. And so the Lone Star State's governor, Rick Perry, wrapped up his bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination with an ad that played several times on the final night of the Olympics just to make that point. In front of a large Texas flag, he opened with the simple statement: "Washington is broken." And exhibit No. 1 of how bad Washington had become in his eyes? Fellow Texan Kay Bailey Hutchison, the senior U.S. Senator who was once the prohibitive favorite to succeed...