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...with Giovanna Tognetti the week before—La Salumeria Italiana, Sulmona Meat Market, and Polcari’s Coffee, where plastic barrels of dried legumes lined the floor, glass jars full of licorice root stick teetered precariously, and the whole store smelled like the deepest corner of a spice cabinet. Topor pointed out the same things that Ms. Tognetti had: the “real” Nutella in the glass jar, the impact of the Euro on the Salumeria, the less than desirable bresaola (air-cured beef) from Uruguay. The resonances between their favorite parts of the North...
...possible that this gentle, charming man had a hankering to spice up his movies with beefcake and beatings. But it's more likely that Dassin saw similarities between the wielders of the whips and his own bosses in Hollywood, or was finding objective correlatives for his own victimization by the blacklist. Informers, toxic whisperers and people who just can't keep a secret are everywhere in his films, from the gossiping cons in Brute Force to the main character in his U.S. comeback movie Up Tight!, a remake of the John Ford drama The Informer...
...role in an American TV show? -D. Pitts, East Windsor, N.J.The terrible thing about network TV is that if you're successful, you're not doing anything else for six years. And although success is wonderful, I don't want that kind of success. You know, variety is the spice of my life. I have to keep changing everything. And I wouldn't enjoy being a TV personality...
...Committee says it will allow in 12 Indian films a year as long as Pakistani films are shown in India. The arrival of proper Bollywood films means Pakistanis can sing, dance and whistle along with the latest hit in jam-packed theaters. "It is this experience of Bollywood masala [spice-mix] that Pakistanis have missed for four decades," wrote the Singapore-based Asia Times newspaper. "The decision to lift the ban indicates how far the normalization of the India-Pakistan bilateral relationship has moved...
...waited eagerly, reminding myself every time I consumed the bland guacamole or the spice-less salsa of Qdoba that my pain would soon be over; the Jedi of Chipotle would rescue me from Darth Insipid...