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...with a single-vineyard champagne. Ninety percent of all French bubbly is a blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir that the top brands carefully mix to ensure consistency from year to year. Single-vineyard champagnes, however, are made from just one type of grape from a single plot of land - and they're fast becoming the toast of champagne lovers everywhere. Krug Clos Du Mesnil, for instance, comes from the first pressing of Chardonnay grapes picked from a single, walled-in vineyard in a former Benedictine monastery. The 1990 vintage gives a crisp, aromatic mouthful with a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Champagne Supernova | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...included Hanks among the actors "condemned to deliver endless variations on the same performance." But what about Road to Perdition, The Green Mile and Cast Away, all starring Hanks and all with very diverse characters and plot lines. Frances Moore Gresham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

Predictably enough, one of the major plot twists is that Rémy and Sébastien grow to be more like one another. In his efforts to make his father more comfortable in his final days, Sébastien starts to appreciate his father’s way of life. In turn, Rémy finally learns to appreciate his son for who he is and actually takes the trouble to try and understand the value and meaning in Sébastien’s work and lifestyle. Although this seems to be an all-too-familiar plotline...

Author: By Steven N. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...Kiernan P. Schmitt ’06 (collectively and endearingly known as “Schmitnick”), “stood out from the beginning,” Putnam says. “It’s a great idea, a great foundation for plot and for character. They’re also hysterically funny...

Author: By Veronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding Primps for New Season | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

Ziegler has spent the last few months working with literary agent Esmond Harmsworth on three drafts of a first novel. She says she based its plot —which centers around the disappearance of its narrator’s mute sister—on a real-life murder trial in her home state...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Sky Scribe | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

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