Word: sinatras
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...Essence of Emeril (The TV Food Network) Cooking shows have been notoriously bland offerings during the past few years but the brash New Orleans chef Emeril Lagasse has arrived to bring on the spice. Spirited and prone to free-association, he is a kind of Frank Sinatra of cooking-show hosts, a kitchen-bound swinger who begins segments like this: "Lamb shanks, if you can find 'em--you get 'em, baby...
...think, playing it oh so cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava Lounge. Las Vegas is Lourdes to them; they drive there in the hope that some casino boss will think they are "money" (it's used as an adjective meaning radiating success) and offer to put them up in "the Rain Man suite...
...always been especially hard, in part because of the danger that the child cannot live up to the parent's public success (no matter how awful the parent might have been in private). And only modest success seems a dramatic falling off: the Sean Lennon, Gary Crosby, Nancy Sinatra syndrome. But Prince William's future seems assured; he can hardly fail to surpass his father...
Once upon a time, a 153-lb. chemistry teacher named Julius Kelp wanted to grow big and strong, or anyway be smooth and cool--sort of like Frank Sinatra on a bad ego day--and in his lab he concocted a formula that permitted him to realize that dubious dream. Thus was The Nutty Professor, central work in the Jerry Lewis oeuvre, born...
...SINATRA, DALI...