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...major holdout, will stop offering free food on domestic coach flights and start charging for what it promises will be more appetizing fare. Even JetBlue, while not giving up its gratis Terra chips, is testing a pay menu. The twin goal is to generate profits and customer satisfaction as Virgin America has done with its microbrews and freshly muddled mojitos. David Johnson, a mechanical engineer in San Francisco, recently paid $40 more for his Virgin ticket than the price a competitor would have charged him. "I would say I fly Virgin 50% for the food...
Dryness can be a problem, admits Peter Wilander, Delta's head of onboard services, who says the airline abandoned an almond-butter and jelly sandwich in part because it couldn't get the consistency of the bread right. Airlines have to factor in other issues, including messiness (Virgin rejected a chocolate bar that shed flakes that stuck to the seats) and smell (Delta recently experimented with tuna fish and found it can work if it's cut with lemon). (See the best travel gadgets...
...native of small-town Illinois and an alumna of the Second City improv comedy troupe (where she shared the stage with The Office's Steve Carell, with whom she would later appear in 2005's The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Lynch always wanted to act and recalls few moments of doubt that she'd make it. That took some doing, considering that by 1999 she was 38 and had spent seven years in L.A. on a "relentless" but only marginally fruitful quest for comedy, acting and singing gigs. But that spring, she ran into Christopher Guest in a local restaurant...
...tall in gym shoes, Lynch has often gotten screen time by taking on parts intended for men. "My first role in high school was the king in a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea,'" she recalls. "It started the pattern." (In The 40-Year-Old Virgin, she plays Carell's boss - a part originally written for a guy - with lecherous absurdity.) But Glee is the first chance audiences have had to watch Lynch inhabit a featured character over time...
...05—The girl who broke up a marriage is still a virgin?! We do not understand this...