This inexplicable yet strangely satisfying video of Christopher Walken roasting a chicken with pears proves two things: Walken really knows how to season, and you’d rather roast a chicken with him than with Gwyneth Paltrow.
“The editor of the Village Voice has been calling me and asking me if I have seen 'Star Wars' and if I’m going to sue,” Frank Herbert told his local newspaper.
A young boxing enthusiast, Vladimir Nabokov, writing for a Russian émigré newspaper, called the Frenchman “the wonderful Carpentier,” a “modest, fair-haired young man.”