[Sca-cooks] OT OOP: Movies Featuring Food
Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius at verizon.net
Sun Dec 14 13:25:59 PST 2003
Also sprach Christine Seelye-King:
>"The Big Night" - make or break dinner for Italian brothers (?) trying to
>make a go of a restaurant.
Yup. Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub are the respective owner/manager
and partner/chef of a dying little Italian restaurant in 1950's
Atlantic City, NJ. A competitor (a Philistine food-whore who serves
spaghetti and meatballs on the same plate, so obviously very
successful among a distinctly food-ignorant, tasteless, tacky and
wealthy clientele), supposedly doing them a favor, promises to
arrange a party to be hosted by the brothers at their restaurant for
Louis Prima and his band, which is supposed to suddenly transform
their restaurant into a world-famous night-spot...
Apart from scenes detailing the creation of a timpano di maccherone,
which pretty much has to be seen to be believed, I especially love
the bit where the tacky customers don't appreciate the seafood
risotto (which has no actual seafood in it, only its concentrated
essence), and wonder why it doesn't come with a side of spaghetti,
leading to the chef's suggestion that he replace it on the menu
with... "'ow you say... 'ot dog? Tee Vee Deenner?"
I often find myself feeling that way...
Adamantius, who doesn't hold his breath waiting for the world to
change, but still wants it to
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