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August 2007 ArchivesIngmar, we hardly knew ye. But we knew ye critics–among them Film Snob co-author Lawrence Levi, who, in his Looker blog, offered a contrarian if respectful take on Bergman’s oeuvre. This prompted a somewhat bitter riposte in Looker’s comments section from Glenn Kenny, a reviewer for the (now) Web-only magazine Premiere, using words pinched from the intro to The Film Snob’s Dictionary. And then it all turned out to be a misunderstanding. Kenny’s ire had been raised by a post in Jeffrey Wells’s Hollywood Elsewhere blog, in which Wells attributed our summary of Snob attitudes towards Bergman to us, rather than to the Snobs we lampoon.* Kenny nobly retracted his riposte. And then Antonioni, in a shrewd comment on the absurdity of it all, croaked. Mime tennis, anyone? * Wells, bizarrely, also calls Levi’s co-author Martin Kamp, rather than David Kamp. August 01, 2007 More Film Snobbery »
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Jamon Ibérico di Bellota. Deep-red, staggeringly expensive ham (selling for upwards of $70 a pound) made from acorn-fed pigs raised on Spain’s Iberian peninsula. Described by those who have tasted it as the orgasmic apotheosis of what pig-eating can entail, Jamon Ibérico has engendered an outright Snob frenzy with the news that the U.S.D.A. has approved its import into the United States as of the middle of 2008—thereby making possible (at a steep price) an experience previously restricted to rich tourists on vacation in Spain and naughty U.S. chefs who’ve smuggled a ham or two through customs. In the reprehensible world of hedge-fund-underwritten Food Snobbery, people are paying three to four figures to reserve their own hams for 2008-09 delivery. Read more from the Food Snob's Dictionary » 
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