Word: souffles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Local Hero showed, he is a director whose best shots are sidelong glances, a writer whose best lines are murmured asides. In Bill Paterson, who plays Bird, Forsyth has the perfect spokesman for his dismayed, determined reasonableness. What he has again created is a unique product, the miniature souffl...
...womanizer is a great subject for farce, and a challenging one for tragedy. What he is not is a suitable subject for sympathy. This film, which turns François Truffaut's delicious 1977 Gallic soufflé into singles' restaurant quiche, suffers centrally from that miscalculation. Producer-Director Blake Edwards, normally a gifted farceur ("10," S.O.B.), turned to a psychologist for help with this screenplay, with predictably shrinking effect on the picture's sense of fun. Edwards' wife Julie Andrews is the doctor who eventually succumbs to Burt Reynolds, essaying the title role. Robbed...
...evident just from the look on his face," observes The New Yorker in a recent reflection on the Lincoln Memorial, "[Lincoln] would have liked to live out a long life surrounded by old friends and good food." Good food? New Yorker readers have an interest in successful soufflés, but it is hard to recall the most melancholy and spiritual of Presidents giving them much thought. New Yorker editors no doubt dream of living out their days grazing in gourmet pastures. But did Lincoln really long to retire to a table...
...software: the racially balanced TV news team, the English butler from Duluth's elegant Garfield Heights section who asks a visitor, "Whom shall I say is calling she?" and the ludicrous prose of costume romance-"Beryl flares her nostrils inadvertently, an effect not unlike that of a pomme soufflée getting its second wind." There are also efforts to get laughs from the subject of comparative genitalia...
...expecting even more ill will from his big civic lunch the next day, said he thus "made 350 friends and 3 million enemies," in all "enough to make some of us hope it never happens again.") After lunch, as the Annenbergs' staff of 50 cleared away the maple-soufflé dishes and champagne (1970 Dom Perignon) glasses, the party motored around the perfectly green grounds - Walter driving the Queen, his wife Lee chauffeuring the Prince - in Annenberg's fleet of electric golf carts...