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...mate soon”—and personality—“do not worry, you are fiercely independent”—and career—“do not worry, you will make a lot of money.” Tucked inside another shop, with her sign hanging on the wrong storefront and operating under limited hours—(the day starts at 2 in the afternoon, or occasionally, not at all)—Sabrina relies on paranormal forces to deliver clients. Drawing from a mixed crowd of students, the middle-aged...
...coffee shop, talking to a Korean girl I’d befriended. She was angry about that day’s lecture in Summer School (it was a joint program with a Korean university), because she thought our professor went too easy on the Japanese. “I dunno,” I said, “I thought he was pretty balanced...
...little company grossed just $1 million that first year, but its founders, Warren Struhl and Richard Demb, had big dreams. Their first shop attracted the attention of Isiah Thomas, head coach of the New York Knicks. Renamed Dale and Thomas Popcorn, after the mayor and the Indiana University hoops legend, the company expects to score $50 million in sales this year and has ambitions "to do to popcorn what Starbucks did to coffee," Thomas says...
...that, Dale and Thomas is trying to re-create the magic that the coach felt in 2003, when he walked into Struhl and Demb's shop (then called Popcorn, Indiana). He was on his way to Madison Square Garden and stopped in for a snack. His first bite took him back to his childhood in Chicago. "I remember thinking, I have to be a part of this," Thomas says. "All of my fond memories come from everyone sitting around, telling stories and sharing a bowl of popcorn...
Everyone is slightly touched--moved and deranged--by the force of love in this sweet, knowing film from director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer). Morgan Freeman presides as a kind of benign deity observing these moonstruck creatures, especially a coffee-shop owner (Greg Kinnear) with a soft heart and rotten luck with beautiful women. Sexy, funny, sad and defiantly romantic, Feast of Love is the rare movie to cuddle...