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UPI
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
'Sunset Boulevard' to return to theaters in August for 75th anniversary
1 of 5 | Gloria Swanson and William Holden star in "Sunset Boulevard," returning to theaters Aug. 3. Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures July 14 (UPI) -- Paramount announced plans for the 75th anniversary of Sunset Boulevard on Monday, including a theatrical re-release Aug. 3 and 4. Sunset Boulevard was originally released Aug. 10, 1950. The film opens with screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) floating dead in a pool as he narrates the story that led to his fate. Gillis got involved with Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), a silent film star whose glory days are behind her. She's famously still ready for her closeup, however, and contends she's still big, but "It's the pictures that got small." Billy Wilder directed. Erich Von Stroheim and Nancy Olson also star. The 4K restoration of Sunset Boulevard premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The restoration was made off of a surviving 35mm duplicate negative, referencing the Library of Congress's print. It also includes a 5.1 sound mix using Park Road Post's technology to isolate dialogue. Park Road restored the footage in Peter Jackson's documentaries They Shall Not Grow Old and The Beatles: Get Back. The Fathom Events theatrical re-release includes an introduction by Leonard Maltin. The film is currently available on 4K UHD at home. The Broadway musical adaptation starring Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond plays through July 20. Sunset Boulevard won Oscars for writing, art direction and Music out of 11 nominations.
Forbes
07-07-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Unlocking Restaurant Menus To Boost Your Culinary Returns
Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and William Holden in '"The Country Girl" () Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, dining out has gotten more expensive, and the ongoing uncertainty around tariffs is likely to drive up prices even further. As a result, consumers are being more careful about how they choose to spend their money. Even when visiting high-end establishments, diners still want to feel that the cost was worth the experience. But restaurant menus don't have to be a minefield if you know how to navigate them. Here are a few tips to help you maximize the value of your next meal. When Choosing Where To Dine, Understand Your 'Why' When it comes to ordering from restaurant menus, there is no single right answer. The outcome will be different for each eatery and each visit you make. Before choosing where to eat, think about what kind of experience you hope to have. Are you looking to grab a quick bite? Do you want to visit the new 'it' place where the scene matters more than the food? Are you craving a particular cuisine? Celebrating a special occasion? If your main concern is efficiency, it makes no sense to opt for the place with the multi-course tasting menu featuring a soufflé that takes 20 extra minutes to prepare, but you might select that same eatery if you're out for the night with a group of friends. Your decisions should be driven by your needs and desires on that particular day, so it helps to be clear with yourself about what those are up front. Digital Snooping Will Only Get You So Far With Google, Yelp and other online tools, it's easy to crowdsource your menu choices, but it's important to remember that you have no idea who actually wrote those reviews. How often do those folks eat out? What's their spice tolerance? Are their dining choices tamer than yours? Do they have a personal axe to grind with the owner? Are they benefiting financially from the restaurant's success? While I do read user reviews and check out online ratings, I tend to take them all with a grain of salt, unless a critique is glaringly and consistently horrifying across a large number of reviews. Write-ups by food critics are a different story—not because I think their opinions are necessarily more valuable, but because I can get a better sense of their overall biases by reading their other reviews. If I know that Jane Doe routinely loves dishes that require tweezers to plate, or entrees that are so spicy they'll blow a hole through the roof of your mouth, that information gives me a way to assess her opinions and temper them with my own. For this reason, it can be helpful to identify a few food critics whose tastes tend to align with yours. After you get home from an amazing meal, Google the name of the restaurant you just visited along with the word 'reviews.' See which opinions line up with your feelings about the experience you just had. If you agree with a critic across several reviews, that person's assessments might carry more weight for you in the future. Choose Dishes You Typically Avoid Making At Home When you're scanning restaurant menus, look for ingredients or preparations that you aren't likely to tackle in your own kitchen. For example, I love Indian food, but I rarely prepare elaborate Indian recipes at home. The dishes I make commonly reflect the Mediterranean food I grew up cooking and eating with my family, and my larder is stocked with those ingredients. These familiar flavor combinations and techniques are my shorthand, especially on a busy weeknight. While spices don't exactly go bad, there is a notable difference between a dish that's been made with freshly ground spices and those that are six months old. Although I love Indian food, I don't restock the necessary seasonings often enough to keep them at peak freshness, so rather than make a subpar version of chana masala, I am much more likely to choose it at a restaurant instead. Assess The Labor Behind A Dish Naturally, your bill includes the cost of ingredients and front-of-house service, but you're also paying for the kitchen labor, so it makes sense to factor in the complexity of a dish when perusing a restaurant menu. I love a great steak, but it's not much of a challenge for me to purchase a nice ribeye and sear it in a cast-iron skillet at home. I don't need to pay a chef to do that for me. On the other hand, I am not likely to make beef Wellington from scratch, or attempt a 35-ingredient Oaxacan mole, or spend days planning and executing a cassoulet recipe. If you are willing to do all of these things, I applaud your dedication, but I know myself well enough to be honest about my attention span and energy levels these days. As you peruse a restaurant's menu, think about how challenging and time-consuming the dishes would be for you to prepare at home. Would it require a spreadsheet and the purchase of specialty ingredients, some of which may need to be acquired by mail order? In that case, you may prefer to let the chef take the wheel. Decoding The Specials On Restaurant Menus The Welton Street Cafe in Denver, Colorado (Photo by Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post) You've done your research, you've settled on what type of experience you hope to have and you've decided on your order, but when your server arrives, they throw your plan into disarray with six simple words: 'We have a few specials tonight.' Boom. Now what? Beyond your preferences, the answer depends on the context. Are you in a fine-dining establishment where the menu changes frequently, or are you sitting at the counter of a greasy spoon? If the latter, it doesn't mean the special isn't worthy of the name—a good cook is a good cook, and my mother would crush the competition on Chopped, even with the humblest of ingredients—but that 'special' could also be a vehicle for using up leftovers or food that's nearing its expiration date. Does the central ingredient appear in several other places on the menu? If so, what makes this particular dish special? (Don't be afraid to ask your server.) If, however, the special is built around a unique ingredient that's only available for a short period, I will always give it serious consideration. I rarely turn down a special that features soft-shell crabs because their season is so ephemeral (and because I love them). And if your server fails to mention the price tag for a special, don't be afraid to ask. Some ingredients, like real truffles, can double the cost of a dish, and a reputable restaurant will tell you the price upfront rather than give you a coronary when the bill arrives. You Shouldn't Need Liquid Courage To Ask About Drinks A tray of martini glasses (Photo by Mark Peterson/Corbis) Your server is likely to take your beverage order before you've decided what to eat. If you're keen to pair your drinks with your food, however, it's fine to hold off on ordering a drink until you've figured out your meal choices. Should you go for one of the restaurant's creative cocktails or stick with a classic? When to order wine? What about the mocktails? The answer is 'it depends.' When faced with a unique cocktail, we all have a tendency to imbue it with the qualities we wish it had, based on menu verbiage. But proportions are everything, so if you hate sweet cocktails, don't assume that the drink won't be cloying just because it contains some yuzu juice. Not all ingredients get listed on the menu, and a heavy pour of simple syrup could easily tip the scales into diabetic shock. Talk to the waitstaff or bartender. They're there to help you make these choices—they want you to be happy so that you'll return—so simplify their job by sharing your preferences. Similarly, if you're not a wine expert, ask to speak to the sommelier or wine director. Tell them approximately how much you want to spend, what you're planning to eat, and what flavor profiles you typically enjoy. In some restaurants and bars, a classic cocktail may be a safer bet because the liquor elements are standardized. While a bartender's skill matters, you're less likely to end up with a drink you hate if most of the components are shelf-stable spirits. Ask what kind of mixers they use—freshly squeezed juices, high-end tonics, or generic fizz from the bar's soda gun?—and request your favorite brand of liquor (but don't assume the price will remain the same if you do, so be sure to ask). As growing numbers of customers seek out non-alcoholic options, more restaurants are offering creative mocktails, but the price tags for some of these are considerably higher than what you'd expect for a beverage that has no booze. When restaurant menus list their cocktails at $20 and their mocktails at $18, I'd just as soon order a simple cranberry and seltzer instead on a night that I'm abstaining from alcohol. Leave Room For Cravings Even if you patronize the same restaurant repeatedly, there are variables you cannot control. What kind of mood is the chef in today? Is there a crisis in the kitchen that will affect the quality of your dinner? Is the sea bass that was delivered this morning as pristine as what you had the last time you ordered the dish? For better and worse, life is unpredictable. (The ONLY true constant is that you should tip your servers well; they are not responsible for the prices, and they rely on your tips for their income.) Similarly, your personal preferences may change from meal to meal, regardless of restaurant menus. Some evenings, I order linguine with white clam sauce even though I could easily make that dish at home—because it's what I am craving, or because I love a particular restaurant's version. If a dish is the specialty of the house, that may supersede the fact that it's not labor intensive. Flexibility is key. Let your appetite and budget guide you, but above all, enjoy!
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Movies to see this week: Turtles, 'Tigers Are Not Afraid,' 'Donnie Darko'
From the sewers to Versailles, falling airplanes to floating bodies, the film calendar in the Twin Cities is full of classics this week. (Let's interpret "classic" pretty broadly here because I don't want emails about how absurd it is to put Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the same realm as Sunset Boulevard.) Spring is coming, but it's still cold enough that you'll want to spend some time inside. Here are the repertory movie screenings worth a stop at the theater this week. Wednesday, March 19 at Emagine Eagan, Emagine Lakeville, Emagine White Bear, and Emagine Willow Creek Films like Sunset Boulevard and The Godfather wind up in repertory series with relative frequency. However, it's probably less common to see the turtles back on the big screen. (At least, it's not often you get to see their early '90s incarnation.) Indulge in its deluge of pizza jokes and '90s slang, whether you unironically love the movie or feel it fits snugly into the "so bad it's good" category. (A reminder for the latter group: We didn't get the timeless collaboration between mutant turtles and Vanilla Ice until the sequel.) Various locations ($10.60) Monday, March 24 at Heights Theater Sunset Boulevard just won't age. Despite being 75 years old, it's still haunting, funny, and tense, right from the opening voiceover when Joe Gillis (William Holden) is seen floating face down in a pool. "You see, the body of a young man was found floating in the pool of her mansion with two shots in his back and one in his stomach. Nobody important, really. Just a movie writer with a couple of 'B' pictures to his credit." The final writing collaboration between director Billy Wilder and screenwriter Charles Brackett might have been their best. 3951 Central Ave. NE, Columbia Heights ($16–$16.75) Monday, March 24 at Emagine Willow Creek Issa López's film doesn't neatly fit into any single genre. It's a crime thriller. It's a fairy tale. It's horror. It's fantasy. More importantly, if you're considering seeing it for the first time, it's just good. A group of kids navigate living amid the everyday violence and horrors of the drug cartels in their city. It's thrilling and fantastical, but Tigers Are Not Afraid (titled Vuelven in Mexico) isn't light viewing. Under the creatures and tension sits painful truth. 3951 Central Ave. NE, Columbia Heights ($7.60) Sunday, March 23 at Emagine Eagan, Emagine Lakeville, Emagine White Bear, and Emagine Willow Creek Is there a movie that more perfectly captures the zeitgeist of early aughts indie films? (For a certain dorm-room poster, mind-bending thread of that era, Donnie Darko is a good representative. Another thread might be more accurately represented by Wes Anderson or Sofia Coppola's whimsy. Oh, and then there's Andrew Bujalski's... I'm getting off track.) After a plane falls from the sky, Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) has visions of a giant rabbit that tells him to do things. Naturally, it's not good things. The creepy rabbit with teeth and deep voice isn't benevolent. Various locations ($12.60) Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 22 at Alamo Drafthouse Coppola's offbeat retelling of Marie Antoinette's life feels well-suited for a revisit. (Because Gang of Four are on their farewell tour and coming to Minneapolis. What did you think I meant?) The stylish film follows Marie, played by Kristen Dunst, from her marriage to Louis XVI to her time in court as a teenage queen. It also gets to that other part. You know, the whole "let them eat cake," fall of Versailles, chop chop thing, if only in a vague way that never actually shows her bloody demise. 9060 Hudson Rd., Woodbury ($13)Movies screening in the Twin Cities this week: Mar. 19: Showgirls (1995) at Edina Theatre Mar. 19: Shark Exorcist (2015) at The Trylon Cinema Mar. 19: Women's Adventure Film Tour 2025 at Riverview Theater Mar. 19: Spring Breakers (2012) at AMC Eden Prairie, AMC Southdale, and CMX Odyssey Mar. 19: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) at Alamo Drafthouse Mar. 19: Wild at Heart (1990) at Alamo Drafthouse Mar. 19–20: Hop (2011) at Emagine Eagan, Emagine East Bethel, Emagine Lakeville, Emagine White Bear, and Emagine Willow Creek Mar. 20: Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1920-2001) at The Heights Theater Mar. 20: Mulholland Drive (2001) at Emagine Willow Creek Mar. 20: Rad Day 2025 at AMC Eden Prairie, AMC Southdale, Emagine Eagan, Emagine Lakeville, Emagine White Bear, Emagine Willow Creek, Oakdale Cinema, Parkwood Cinema, Southbridge Cross Cinema, St. Michael Cinema, and West End Cinema Mar. 20 and 23: House (1977) at Grandview Theatre Mar. 20: Boom: A Film About the Sonics (2018) at Cloudland Theater Mar. 21: Luca (2021) at Emagine White Bear Mar. 21 and 23–25: Lost Highway (1997) at Alamo Drafthouse Mar. 21–25: Phantom Thread (2017) at The Trylon Cinema Mar. 22: "Cinema Is of the Mind Anyway," films by Jordan Lord and Tiffany Sia at Walker Art Center Mar. 22: Middle School Movie Club: Belle (2021) at Walker Art Center Mar. 23: Spaceballs (1987) at Audrey Rose Vintage Mar. 23–24: The Godfather (1972) at Oakdale Cinema, Parkwood Cinema, Rosemount Cinema, and West End Cinema Mar. 23: The Princess Bride (1987) at Roxy's Cabaret Mar. 24: Bob Trevino Likes It (2024) at The Main Cinema Mar. 25: Catacomb Cinema Club at Bryant Lake Bowl Mar. 25: Girls Town (1996) at Alamo Drafthouse
