"I'd hate to take a bite out of you...
...you're a cookie full of arsenic." J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) to Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) in the 1957 film "Sweet Smell of Success." Killer line, in a movie full of them. Anybody have other food metaphors (or references) from the Silver Screen?
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5 Comments:
Spencer Tracy describing Katherine Hepburn: "There's not much meat on her, but what's there is choice (or cherse as Tracy pronounced it).
Ed Levine at 5:03PM on 04/08/07
That first one makes me think of Dr. Seuss...I am quoting from memory here, so it's bound to be a little off, but in the song, "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch," I have always loved the line: "You're a triple-decker toadstool sandwich....with arsenic sauce!"
bylime at 9:17PM on 04/08/07
In one of my favorite comedies, Grumpier Old Men, Burgess Meredith is hilarious trying to pick up Sphia Loren's mom in the grocery store with his line ,"Wanna see my man sized manicotti?" (The versions he uses in the outtakes at the end of the movie will have you rolling!)
play-with-food at 7:19AM on 04/09/07
Unfortunately I can't remember any particular quotes, but serious eaters would do well to watch the 90's television series 'Jeeves and Wooster' with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Virtually every episode is a study in inter-war upper class noshing, with member's club lucheons, poncy dinner parties, tennis match tea tents, captain's dinners, etc. Menus are discussed at length. One whole episode is basically given over to the proposition that smooth domestic relations hang upon the state of each family member's digestion, and the loss of a good chef is therefore a threat to a marriage, a business and the status quo!
caley at 8:06AM on 04/09/07
In A League of Their Own...I believe it is Tom Hanks that says to one of the female ballplayers..."You gorgeous stack of pancakes."
Bosmer at 11:47AM on 04/10/07