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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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Sontheimer, Carl. M.I.T.-trained engineer and compulsive tinkerer (1914-98) whose love of cooking and eating resulted, after a prosperous career in electronics, in a second act as the inventor of the Cuisinart food processor (which was actually a licensed, modified version of an industrial blender he found in France, Le Magimix). Though perceived as dubious fad gadget upon its introduction in the early 1970s, the Cuisinart took off when the media-savvy Sontheimer demo’d his gizmo for JULIA CHILD and JAMES BEARD, who pronounced it nothing less than a seismic development in the annals of home cookery. Thus did Cuisinarts become the coveted objects of elbows-out department-store wrangles in the mid-’70s, and did Sontheimer come to enjoy an odd sort of kitchen-implement celebrity not repeated until George Foreman came along.