Watching a celebrity cooking show, which is sorta misleading because the cooking seems to be done almost exclusively by the professional chefs and the so-called "celebrities" just seem to walk around and cheer from time to time. Still... some of those dishes look so good. Getting hungry just looking at it.
Reviews:
"Apocalypse Now" (1979) (movie)Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
I saw this movie about the war in Vietnam a few weeks ago, and I've had some time to reflect on it... and I still not sure what I saw. Most of it was crap either way. My favorite scene in the movie was perhaps the most simple. As the boat was traveling along the river towards Cambodia, there was this chilling moment in which the crew tensely sailed in silence because they all recognized that they were crossing a location controlled by the enemy. Still, scenes like that couldn't make up for the weird temple scenes and the surreal introduction of the indigenous highlanders. Final word: the movie stank, but it was made pretty well. C
Novel Without A Name (book)by Duong Thu Huong
A fictional novel on the Vietnam War which follows Quan, its chief protagonist, as he travels from the front lines back to his home in North Vietnam. Only read the first 150 pages for my anthropology course, but I was pretty absorbed in the book. Maybe there's just something about wartime that keeps me from putting down a book our turning away from a screen. Huong, though, is a woman who was a Vietnamese soldier during the war that has since been persecuted by the Vietnamese government for her works which criticize the current regime and advocate political reform. My favorite moment was when Quan returns to his home village after 10 years and visits his old flame Hao, who has been shunned and forced to live on the outskirts of the town because she had become pregnant out of wedlock and would not name the father. It was extremely touching, since both of them knew that there was no chance of them being together, yet they treated each other with a remarkable tenderness. Despite the consequences, they had to share that moment with each other, even though it undoubtedly complicated things between them. B
