My Current Interest

                My mother loves to cook and she enjoys watching others do it as well.  She has a group of movies, all centered on food, that show the characters not only eating great meals, but creating them.  Many of these movies I have not seen or only watched in parts.  Today’s Special is different.  This film I watched from start to finish.  I truly enjoyed it and developed a severe craving for Tandoori chicken.                  Samir is a sous chef in a New York City restaurant.   He has held this position for years and is convinced he is going to get the big upcoming promotion.   When his boss gives the job to someone else, and criticizes his cooking, Samir quits.   Not fully sure what to do now, Samir decides to go to Paris and study cooking with the great French chefs.      Before he is able to leave, Samir’s father falls ill.   No longer able to fulfill his Paris dream, Samir takes over the family’s failing Indian restaurant.   His heart is not in the family business

                  When it comes to music I am kind of cranky.   This is the honest truth.   Something has to be unique in order to keep my attention.   Songs cannot sound too similar.   I am also not fond of silence gaps between songs.   This is not as important as the same sounding songs, but there is something I like about one song flowing into the next.   Maybe it is having spent so many years around musical theatre.                 The first time I put Wonders of the Younger in the CD player of my car, I was not sure about it.   The first few songs sounded alike.   Could this have been because I was driving to somewhere I did not particularly want to go?   That is certainly possible.   When I played the disc again, I noticed great differences.   Is not it interesting how dreading something can make a person’s impressions get skewed?                 Once I got over my initial rejection, I could not stop playing the album.   I do not know how many times this was my chosen mu

                Lately I have noticed a trend in romance books.   Quite often there is a series of books that all have to do with family members and occasionally friends.   Most frequently this is with brothers, in my experience.   I am not sure why brothers more than other combinations.   Not that there is anything wrong with this.   It is just something to contemplate.                 This series centers around three brothers from Louisiana.   The first book, Blue Bayou , is about Jack.   As a teenager he was run out of town by Judge Dupree, his mother’s boss and the father of the girl, Danielle, with whom he was involved.   Judge Dupree felt he knew better than others, especially Danielle, and was not going to have his daughter involved with the local bad boy.                 After Jack leaves, he and Danielle do not see each other.   Danielle does not know her father had a hand in Jack’s leaving and believes he simply left.   Heartbroken, Danielle has to move on as best sh

              I am starting out with a warning.   The Iceman Cometh is a very long play.   Four acts, three intermissions, and nearly five hours is the run time for this production.   The time spent to watch is worth it.                     Starring Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane at the Goodman Theatre, this work by Eugene O’Neill is about a group of men (and a few women) who live at a rooming house run by a man named Harry.   While the men have rooms they can go to, most of their time is spent in the house’s bar.   Day after day, the men, full of alcohol, lament about the lives they once had and dream of things they say they will do… tomorrow.   Nothing ever changes, until it comes time for Harry’s birthday.   The play opens as the men anxiously await the arrival of their friend Hickey, a salesman who is a rare visitor but throws his money around whenever he shares their company.                 On all the other occasions, Hickey (Nathan Lane) has joined in on the drinking.