Word: spaghettied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVER HAVE TOO MUCH spaghetti at an Italian restaurant? Spaghetti isn't the most glamorous of meals, but it's good solid food. But eat too much of it, and the pasta expands in the stomach till the fork-twister feels like a lead zeppelin...
Macaroni, true to its name, is very much like Mama Leone's spaghetti. The plot starts off solidly enough. Robert Traven (Jack Lemmon) is an American exec on a business trip in Naples, where he had a tour of duty during the Second World War. The stressful monotony of his job has forced him to forget those younger, happier days, until his old friend Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), intrudes on Robert's busy schedule to remind him of old times. Says Antonio to Robert, "Youva become arid, lika desert." Thus begins Antonio's program of re-hydration...
...performances by Lemmon and Mastroianni are solid but not overwhelming. Lemmon's style of acting is so familiar as to be monotonous, like canned spaghetti, and Mastroianni comes nowhere near to being the wild Italian he is advertised as. Instead, he resembles the meatball on Lemmon's noodles...
...careless or greedy Italian farmers endangered the health of spaghetti- sauce lovers from Bologna to Burbank? No, the Italian Ministry of Health proclaimed last week. After a ten-day investigation that fueled a heated public debate, the government announced that the Italian tomato crop, which accounts for some 60% of the world's production of peeled canned tomatoes, was perfectly safe for consumption...
...pennant races, there's always plenty of excitement in following the big name ballplayers. In fact, that's why they get paid so much they're big name players, both on and off the field. Who doesn't enjoy seeing Dave Righetti's smiling face in Prince spaghetti ads. And there's nothing quite like watching George Foster hustle back to the dugout after he strikes...