Purple Gene's review of the PBS "American Masters" series special called "Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution" (2003). Directed by Doug Hamilton:
"YOU CAN GET ANYTHING YOU WANT AT ALICE'S RESTAURANT!"
Over on Shattuck Avenue, near Vine, in Berkeley California...there is a huge Monkey pod tree that stands in front of an old redwood Victorian house. Back in 1971 it was converted into a restaurant called Chez Panisse by a friend of mine named Kip Mesirow and a young lady fresh back from France with a revolutionary idea for food preparation...FRESH & LOCAL...this was Alice Water's mantra back then...and eating at her new restaurant was like eating at her house with your friends...but her incredible delectable ideas started attracting people from all over the country and they called it "California Cuisine" and before we knew it, Chez Panisse was named the best French restaurant in the United States.
Alice Waters was born in New Jersey on April 28th (Taurus), 1944. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1967 with a B.A. in French Cultural Studies. She trained as a chef at the Montessori School in London...and then traveled and ate her way around France for a year before coming back to Berkeley.
The "American Masters" series on PBS explores the lives of interesting people from Louis Armstrong to Andy Warhol...and this particular piece, "Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution," explores the rather remarkable yet truly simple creative achievements of Ms. Waters.
1986…..named one of the 10 best chefs in the world.
1992…..named the best chef in America.
1997…..received the James Beard Humanitarian Award.
2000…..received the "Bon Appetit" Lifetime achievement Award.
2001…..Alice started her Edible Garden project at King Junior High School.
I just saw Alice last Friday having a beer at Cesar's and babbling about her latest project.
Purple Gene gives Alice Waters his special Culinary Award:
The Very Best goat cheese pizza and raspberry tart Award!
CBS begins the night with the movie 'Elf', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with the movie 'It's A Wonderful Life'.
'SNL' is FRESH with Justin Timberlake hosting & providing music.
The late, late 'SNL' is from 9 December, 2000, with Val Kilmer hosting, music by U2.
ABC starts the night with the movie 'Finding Nemo', followed by a RERUN'Ugly Betty'.
The CW offers 'American Idol Rewind', followed by 'The Shield'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', another 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
'MAD TV' is FRESH.
MY has a FRESH'Wicked Wicked Games', followed by a FRESH'Watch Over Me'.
A&E has 'Flip This House', another 'Flip This House', still another 'Flip This House', and the made-for-cable-movie 'Wedding Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'Prancer', then the movie 'Prancer', again.
BBC -
[2:00 pm] Changing Rooms - Plymouth;
[2:30 pm] House Invaders - Episode 8;
[3:00 pm] Doctor Who;
[4:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Norden;
[5:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Geoghegan;
[6:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 1;
[7:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 2;
[8:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 3;
[9:00 pm] Persuasion;
[11:00 pm] Cash in the Attic - Norden;
[12:00 am] Persuasion;
[2:00 am] Cash in the Attic - Geoghegan;
[3:00 am] Blackadder - Dish & Dishonesty;
[3:40 am] Blackadder - Ink & Incapability;
[4:20 am] Blackadder - Nob & Nobility;
[5:00 am] Comics Unleashed - Episode 4;
[5:30 am] Comics Unleashed - Episode 5;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', followed by the movie 'Joe Dirt', then the movie 'Zoolander'.
History has 'Vietnam: The Homecoming', 'The Private Voice Of Hitler', and the movie 'U-571'.
IFC -
[06:30 AM] The eMusic Dozens: Indie Local;
[06:45 AM] IFC Short Film Showcase: December;
[07:45 AM] IFC News Special: This Film Is Not Yet Rated;
[08:00 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #21: The Rescue;
[08:30 AM] Samurai 7 Episode #22: The Divide;
[09:00 AM] Floating Weeds;
[11:05 AM] Girl With a Pearl Earring;
[12:50 PM] The White Sheik;
[02:15 PM] Floating Weeds;
[04:20 PM] Girl With a Pearl Earring;
[06:05 PM] The White Sheik;
[07:30 PM] Cecil B. Demented;
[09:00 PM] Greg the Bunny: The Passion of the Easter Bunny: Fabricated American Movie;
[09:15 PM] American Movie;
[11:00 PM] Greg the Bunny: The Passion of the Easter Bunny: Fabricated American Movie;
[11:15 PM] Wonderland;
[01:05 AM] M;
[03:00 AM] Greg the Bunny: The Passion of the Easter Bunny: Fabricated American Movie;
[03:15 AM] American Movie;
[05:00 AM] Greg the Bunny: The Passion of the Easter Bunny: Fabricated American Movie;
[05:15 AM] Wonderland. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has has the movie 'Resident Evil', followed by 'ECW', then the movie 'Dead And Deader'.
Sundance -
[07:00 AM] Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out;
[07:30 AM] Heaven Come Down;
[09:15 AM] The Best Man;
[11:00 AM] Broken Column;
[12:00 PM] Jesus Christ Superstar;
[02:00 PM] Iconoclasts Season 2: Episode 2: Mikhail Baryshnikov + Alice Waters;
[02:45 PM] Dolls;
[04:45 PM] Ginger and Cinnamon;
[06:30 PM] The Proposition;
[08:30 PM] Primer;
[10:00 PM] Forty Shades of Blue;
[12:00 AM] City of Men - Season 3: Episode 5: Father and Son;
[12:35 AM] One Punk Under God: Episode 1;
[01:05 AM] Yom Yom;
[03:00 AM] Intimacy;
[05:00 AM] Breasts: A Documentary. (ALL TIMES EST)
Actor William Shatner, left, and his wife, Elizabeth Anderson Martin, arrive for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Actor George Clooney expressed frustration Friday over the lack of action to end the conflict in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
The Oscar winner met U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday to brief him about the delegation he led to China and Egypt, which included actor Don Cheadle, American speed skater Joey Cheek and Kenyan Olympian Tegla Loroupe. The four later gave an interview to The Associated Press.
Cheadle, who starred in the film "Hotel Rwanda" about the Rwandan genocide, said working on the movie did not prepare him for what he saw when he visited Sudan.
"Nothing can prepare you when you fly over a camp that stretches as far as you can see and you touch down and walk in this camp and you see starving children and women who repeatedly tell the same stories about being raped and how they were forced to witness their husbands being executed," he told The Associated Press.
Producer and director James Burrows walks back to his seat after receiving his Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame award during his induction ceremony Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
O.J. Simpson's would-be publisher, Judith Regan, was fired Friday, her sensational, scandalous tenure at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ending with the tersest of announcements.
Regan's firing comes less than a month after Murdoch's cancellation of Simpson's hypothetical murder confession, "If I Did It," a planned book and Fox television interview that was greeted with instant and near-universal disgust when announced.
Since 1994, she has headed the ReganBooks imprint at News Corp.'s HarperCollins, an ideal fit for Murdoch's tabloid tastes. Regan has published a long list of racy best-sellers, including Jose Canseco's "Juiced" and Jenna Jameson's "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star," and is the rare publisher of interest to gossip columnists, notably for an affair with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.
French electronic music pioneer Jean Michel Jarre plans to draw attention to water shortages and desertification with a concert among the sand dunes of the Moroccan Sahara on Saturday night.
Jarre, who is goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), will also be one of the highlights marking the end of the UN International Year of Deserts and Desertification and part of the 2005-2015 UN Water for Life Decade.
Using his hallmark state-of-the-art visual and sound technology, the French composer/musician will stress the importance of protecting and properly managing the planet's limited freshwater resources and halting the advance of desertification, UNESCO said in a statement.
CBS Corp. has launched a new recorded music label - reviving the name of long-defunct CBS Records - through which the company plans to release music and promote artists on its networks' stable of television shows.
CBS Records aims to market its artists and their music in television shows produced by CBS Paramount Television and aired across several broadcast and cable networks, including CBS, The CW, NBC and USA Network, New York-based CBS Corp. said Thursday.
Outside of television, CBS Records will release music online through its own Web site and retailers such as Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store. The label has completed a deal with Apple to sell music, videos and other content, and expects to seal similar agreements with other online music services, CBS said.
Television host Regis Philbin accepts his Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame award via video recording during his induction ceremony Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Danny Moloshok
Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. can once again lay exclusive claim to the phrase "Show me the money."
ABC pulled the plug on its William Shatner-hosted game show by the same name Friday and yanked it from the schedule immediately, replacing it with America's Funniest Home Videos.
The network initially said it planned to air the seven remaining episodes that it had already completed, but later decided to shelve them.
The cancellation comes just one week after ABC announced that it had ordered six additional episodes of the show to air in January.
For opera fans, the sight of rattled tenor Roberto Alagna storming offstage after being booed at Milan's La Scala was stunning. But for those who don't follow opera, what was really stunning was the booing itself.
In sports, booing is part of the game. When even the home team is performing badly, be it on the baseball diamond or the football field or in the hockey arena, they can expect to hear about it.
An exception is the manicured world of golf, where booing has no place. And in tennis, the occasional boo for a favorite's opponent - especially when the opponent is serving - will be greeted with a round of "shhhhhh" from other fans. People don't boo when their favorite is losing; they offer chants of encouragement.
Then there's opera. If you can't boo on the golf course or at Wimbledon, why can you boo in a gilded, chandeliered opera house? Of all entertainment forms, opera is the only one where booing has a long tradition, rooted in the intense emotion of the entire experience, say aficionados.
Friends presented a $250,000 bail package Friday for Yoko Ono's driver, jailed after he was accused of threatening to have John Lennon's widow killed unless she gave him $2 million.
The bail for Koral Karsan, 50, was presented as two cashier's checks, his lawyer Robert Gottlieb said. He said Karsan remained in jail while the Manhattan district attorney's office reviewed the people who put up the money.
When Judge Tanya Kennedy set bail at $500,000 bond or $250,000 cash, she gave prosecutors 72 hours to investigate the money's source, a move usually made to ensure the money is not criminal proceeds.
One of two Judy Garland disks of her first-ever studio recordings of never-released songs from 1935 is shown in this undated publicity photograph. The disks are expected to bring between $30,000-$40,000 at the Hollywood memorabilia auction at Bonhams & Butterfields auction December 17, 2006 in Hollywood.
"American Pie" star Natasha Lyonne, arrested after threatening to sexually abuse a neighbor's dog, left court a free woman Friday after a judge promised to dismiss the charges against her.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Anthony J. Ferrara said that because Lyonne successfully completed a court-ordered drug program and paid $2,000 restitution, he was sentencing her to a conditional discharge.
Assistant District Attorney Remy Taborga confirmed that Lyonne had met the conditions set by the court. The prosecutor recommended the conditional discharge, which means that if Lyonne is not arrested within the next six months, the charges will be dismissed.
The complaint said Lyonne banged on the female neighbor's door, entered the apartment, ripped a mirror off the wall, picked up the woman's pooch and said, "I'm going to sexually molest your dog."
The mother of the four acting Baldwin brothers settled a lawsuit with a photographer Friday, ending a decade-old dispute that had both parties leaving the courthouse in smiles.
"We're friends again," Carol Baldwin said of photographer James Edstrom, who had sued in state Supreme Court. "We even exchanged phone numbers."
Edstrom had been seeking $100,000 in damages, claiming the family backed out of a planned picture in 1997 of the four brothers: Alec, Daniel, Stephen and William. It was to be payback for work Edstrom did in organizing a fundraiser for the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Care Center at Stony Brook University Medical Center.
A worker varnishes saxophones at the Henri Selmer wind instruments factory in Mantes-la-Ville near Paris, November 20, 2006. The leading producer of top of the range Saxophones, Selmer instruments have been used by some of the great jazz musicians, including John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Lester Young and Stan Getz.
Photo by Jacky Naegelen
Trey Anastasio was accused of driving under the influence of drugs in an upstate New York town near the Vermont border early Friday.
The former Phish frontman was pulled over by an officer who saw his car failing to keep to right side of the road at about 3:30 a.m., Whitehall village police said.
A search turned up quantities of the painkillers hydrocodone and Percocet, as well as the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, that had been prescribed for someone else, police said.
Anastasio, who was driving with a suspended New York license, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and driving while intoxicated-drugs, police said.
The organizers of the Miss USA pageant said Thursday they are evaluating the "behavioral and personal issues" of the reigning winner and will decide her future within a week.
Pageant officials and Donald Trump, who co-owns the Miss Universe Organization with NBC, would not say what Kentucky native Tara Conner, 20, had done to prompt the serious evaluation.
Internet gossip Web site TMZ.com reported that pageant officials and NBC met Tuesday to discuss Conner's alleged bad behavior, "including her conduct at New York City bars." The Web site did not name its sources.
Trump said if Conner gets the boot runner-up Miss California Tamiko Nash would take over as Miss USA.
A surfer rides a wave just before sunset off the Southern California shore at Hermosa Beach, Calif., Friday, Dec. 15. 2006. Higher-than-normal surf was predicted, associated with a winter storm expected to arrive in Southern California late Friday or Saturday.
Photo by Reed Saxon
A former Georgia congressman who helped spark President Clinton's impeachment has quit the Republican Party to become a Libertarian, saying he is disillusioned with the GOP on issues such as spending and privacy.
Bob Barr, who served eight years as a Republican congressman before losing his seat in 2002, announced Friday that he is now a "proud, card-carrying Libertarian." And he encouraged others to join him.
Barr said he has no plans to run for office. In his new role as the Libertarian Party's regional representative for the South, he will help promote the party's message and recruit candidates, he said.
The word "macaca," used by outgoing Sen. George Allen (R-Racist) of Virginia to describe a Democratic activist of Indian descent who was trailing his campaign, was named the most politically incorrect word of the year on Friday by Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that studies word usage.
In second place on this year's list was "Global Warming Denier," for someone who believes that climate change has moved from scientific theory to dogma.
In third was "Herstory" substituting for "History." Payack said there are nearly 900,000 Google citations for "Herstory," all based on a mistaken assumption that "history" is a sexist word.
In August, Global Language Monitor picked "truthiness" and "Wikiality" -- two words popularized by political satirist Stephen Colbert on his TV show "The Colbert Report"-- as the top television buzzwords of the year.
In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a young pygmy marmoset holds on to a branch at the Bronx Zoo in New York, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006. This is one of two marmosets born on Aug. 20, and can be expected to reach a height of five inches and weigh in at one half pound. One of the smallest of all monkey species, the pygmy marmoset inhabits the jungles of Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher
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