[Sca-cooks] Pirozhki`s (was Maybe It Is Rocket Science: Bread)

Elaine Koogler ekoogler1 at comcast.net
Wed Nov 24 08:00:51 PST 2004


Martin G. Diehl wrote:

>"Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" wrote:
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>>Also sprach Martin G. Diehl:
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>>>Well ... what I said *was* true ... ahhh errr mumble
>>>mumble years ago.
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>>"Vera, I swear to you on my life, you don't look a day 
>>over 65!"
>>        --Max Bialystock
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>One of my favorite! movies.  How did you know?  
>
>So very New York with fast paced dialog and instant 
>twisted comebacks.  
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>===
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>Bloom,	With briefcase in left hand, right hand on left 
>	bicep, "He can't get out of the contract can he?"  
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>Bialystock, "Absolutly not."  
>
>Bloom,	Releases the briefcase, lifts the trashcan lid, 
>	tears the armband off into the trashcan, and 
>	spits on it.  
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>	AFIK, the _only_ hint of violence by Bloom in 
>	the entire movie.  
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>===  
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>The fountain scene at Lincoln Center ... what can I say?  
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>===  
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>Lorenzo St. DuBois (L.S.D.) (played by Dick Shawn) 
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>===  
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>Bialystock, "I know, we'll kill all the actors."
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>Bloom,	"You can't do that, they're people." 
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>Bialystock, "They are?  Have you ever had lunch with one?"  
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>===  
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>Back to food/cooking ... sort of ... 
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>I heard a story ... 
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>Dick Shawn, the actor was in an Upper West Side restaurant 
>when another patron aproached his table to get down on one 
>knee and begin singing, "Springtime for Hitler und ... ."
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>[snip]
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Have you seen the Broadway version of this yet?  If not...do so...it's 
incredible!!!  We weren't fortunate enough to see Nathan Lane and 
Matthew Broderick doing the lead parts, but the actors who did were 
superb. 

Kiri




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