Regarding the inevitable brouhaha surrounding Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ:
The argument about the film’s political implications is important and, in any case, will be hard — at least for a while — to drown out. But at a certain point, disciples of cinema, whatever their other loyalties and affiliations, must reaffirm a basic creed: for God’s sake, shut up and watch the movie.
**From a song featured in the movie, Jesus Christ Superstar.
Every now and then it’s hard to choose just one. I found a dozen wonderful quotes on food, and I narrowed it down to two this time.
This was the dawn of plastic eating in America…. We doted on Velveeta. Spam. Canned ravioli. Instant puddings. Instant anything. The further a thing was from the texture, flavor, and terrifying unpredictability of real food, the better.
–Shirley Abbott, The Bookmaker’s Daughter (1991)
Fake food — I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut — is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.
–Julia Child, Julia Child & Company (1978)