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Food

Easy as Pie

By:

Louise Fiszer, Jewish Exponent Feature

BEYOND CHICKEN SOUP During a recent exchange between friends of an up-coming summer potluck barbecue, the talk turned to dessert. Some were offering all sorts of cakes, tarts and cookies. However, there seemed to be a glaring omission from this very American party dessert list -- pies. Although pies may not have been created in America, they definitely have become...

Film & Television

Hooray for Bollywood? Holding out for a 'Hero'? That's Chris Kattan, with Mumbai moxie

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Michael Elkin

Slumdog slam-dunk? You could make the case for comics Chris Kattan and his dad, Kip King, who find that Indian summer comes early this year with "Bollywood Hero," a Mumbai-minted mini-series coming to IFC cable for three nights beginning on Aug. 6. Mango and curry -- that's some spicy concoction: Chris created some of the livelier comic creations on "Saturday...

Books

A Life That's Nasty, Brutish and ... Funny

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Robert Leiter

SPEAKING VOLUMES Phil Camp, the central character of Bill Scheft's third novel, Everything Hurts , published by Simon & Schuster, is grappling with a number of significant dilemmas as the narrative opens. For one thing, everything does really hurt; his body is a hotbed of pain. It's localized in his leg -- he has a pronounced limp at those times...

Food

The Big Chill Some cool soups for hot days

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Linda Morel, Jewish Exponent Feature

WHAT'S COOKING? Although it sounds like a contradiction in terms, I'm a great fan of cold soups, which are even more versatile than their steaming winter counterparts. When was the last time you heard of anyone serving piping-hot soup for breakfast or dessert? Yet ice-cold soups can be anything you want them to be. I eat frosty fruit soups at...

Arts

What Price Happiness?

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Michael Elkin

Only "$9.99" for The Meaning of Life? A bargain! But don't discount the dynamics of hurt and hope in delivering that happiness. And "$9.99" -- the amazing stop-motion animation directing debut of Israeli-born Tatia Rosenthal -- stops one in its very tracks as it traces the litmus test of dreams on a motley mix of apartment dwellers. The first Australian-Israel...