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mstillman

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  1. I am having a party and need more wine glasses than I own for the attendees. any good places to rent from in new york city? thanks
  2. Yup. Airplanes. Planes have fed the hungry. brought ingredients that we never knew existed to our doorsteps. airplanes created the potential for super variety at our supermarkets.
  3. i hear what you are saying but this type of thing is bad for fund raising in the near future because corporations/wealthy individuals don't like to be perceived to be throwing their money into a hole with a bad reputation. when the stink started to rise off of enron everyone jumped and made it sink faster.
  4. i agree. just shocking in how blatant it was. sad for him and the organization. i look forward to reading the next two articles.
  5. unbelivable http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...DDGT9CGU161.DTL [Moderator's note: News article links on the web tend to be short lived. Links go cold quickly and posts with nothing but a link to a news story without summary or short citation within the boundaries of our copyright and fair use policy may be deleted in the future. It's also unfair to ask members to pursue a link without offering some details of what might be found at the end of the link. Please see the next post for a brief quote from "Recipe for Scandal," an article by Mike Weiss in the May 4, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle to be found at the link above. The article details Len Pickell's handling of the Beard foundation's business affairs as an unsalaried vice president for finance. "Cooking of the books" is a phrase used by Weiss in his account.]
  6. not many got on air for sara. there were always a few who called but the vast majority of calls were authentic. but we had to fabricate calls for dr. aroni and dr. callahan. nobody called that show.
  7. the name of that lady with dr. lou aroni was dr. lisa callahan. i used to be a call screener for that show. and cooking live.
  8. The Chairman is going to be Eric Drasascos. He was in "The Raven: Stairway to Heaven" They tape next week.
  9. sort of, chin has a chinese father and a japanese mother and was raised in both countries. if memory serves.
  10. More details... Iron Chef America (Triage Entertainment, makers of Home for the Holidays and Scariest Places on Earth) is set to launch with an original series of four special episodes on April 23-25, 9-11p each evening. The American Iron Chefs are Bobby Flay Mario Batali and Wolfgang Puck (Wolfgang Puck being American and all) In these special eps, the American Iron Chefs do kitchen battle with the Japanese Iron Chefs Masaharu Morimoto and Hiroyuki Sakai. There is also a set of judges and for the American version will include Paige Davis (Trading Spaces), Dennis Franz (NYPD Blue), Barbara Fairchild (editor of Bon Appetit), Vincent Pastore (Sopranos), among others. And in the role of play-by-ingredient commentator, chef/scientist Alton Brown. sit tight.
  11. But they bought the format rights and so that means in large ways replicating the format and that includes: the chairman, the coming up on platforms (or the like), production style, commentators, etc. But usually something gets lost in the transition... i.e. "Coupling" from BBC which was a good solid sitcom but once the format was bought by NBC they quickly wasted their money by ruining a fine format and cancelling the show. The same will happen with "The Office" (one of the best shows on television, period) because the format is so unique. The only truly successful format purchase that really worked was "Three's Company" because it was screwball comedy and sex innuendoes. That translates pretty easily. It is hard to make Iron Chef straightforward because otherwise you don't need the format rights. Just make a competitive cooking show where chefs compete against food network chefs. i do think it is possible to make a quirky and american version of iron chef. i don't know why you would want to when there is such a great original that people still like and are interested in. It isn't tired material at all. but that said, it takes finesse to carry the essence of the show and have it work.
  12. horrible news that it is...i am just glad i don't work there any more to see them butcher my baby in front of my eyes. i am just remembering my experience consulting on Iron Chef USA and how defeating it was to speak with the executive producer who was intent on producing the show in the worst way possible against all my advice. oh well.
  13. Food Network has picked up the US format rights to Iron Chef and expects to have Iron Chef America ready for air this spring. Among the US Iron Chefs will be Wolfgang Puck and Bobby Flay (naturally, he's been down this road before). I shudder at the thought. The SVP of programming left the network about three weeks ago or so. I don't see this going well (even if she was there)
  14. Mattanza: Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily by Theresa Maggio. A love story and fantastic huge bluefin tuna hunts done as they have been for the last 2000 years. remarkable.
  15. Jeremiah Tower's New American Classics. That books kicks ass and takes names...kidnaps your mom and holds her at gunpoint and then asks for a chopper and 50 million dollars to make its getaway to some island where it rules supremely in a white linen suit while smoking cigars. Also Red Wine with Fish by Rosengarten and Wesson.
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