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...other cinematic gemstone opening around the country this weekend is the new buddy-buddy Eddie Murphy action comedy, I Spy. This time, however, instead of being paired with Nick Nolte or Robert DeNiro, Owen Wilson fills the other shoe in the buddy equation...
...Owen, who has a passion for food--she toys with the idea of going into the restaurant business at some point--spent five days studying and cooking with professional chefs at the Greystone campus of the renowned Culinary Institute of America (CIA). The school is in St. Helena, in the heart of California's Napa Valley, about 1 1/2 hr. north of San Francisco. "When I put the chef's hat on and stepped into one of the best kitchens in the world, I felt a tingle," says Owen, who spent $850 on the course...
...Owen's class at Greystone, an introduction to the professional kitchen, ran from 2 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. daily. Along with 17 other students, she started the day with classroom instruction devoted to a particular form of meal preparation. During one session, they learned grilling, during another braising, then on to deep frying, and so forth. Next the students, outfitted in full chef's attire, moved into the kitchen and in teams of three created a specific menu for the evening. Dishes Owen prepared included grilled salmon, fried squid and risotto. "Despite all the complicated dishes I cooked...
Back home, Owen is using her new, improved culinary flair to treat her employees. In between her accounting and managerial duties, she regularly cooks meals for the eight people in her company in a fully equipped kitchen in the office. "When I get to work, everyone asks me what's for lunch," says Owen. "Even if they hate the job, they love the food." (A sample menu: fillet of salmon with soy sauce, rice-wine vinegar and lemongrass, baked in parchment paper and served with rice pilaf...
...network schedules, accounting for roughly 21 of the 63 prime-time hours each week... Attempts to vary that formula have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch. The good guys come in wondrous array: in uniform (Adam-12, The Rookies), in disguise (Toma), in court (Perry Mason, Owen Marshall) and in hayseed (Hawkins, McCloud). They are black (Shaft, Tenafly), elderly (The Snoop Sisters), bald (Kojak), Polish (Banacek), portly (Cannon), paralytic (Ironside) and partly computer (The Six Million Dollar Man). They work alone (Mannix), in pairs (The Streets of San Francisco, Faraday and Company, McMillan & Wife) and in precision...