Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Memories of Pleasure: A Dinner, A Play, A Movie...
When I wasn't sick as a Canine-American.... Two weeks ago Saturday, JP & I dined at Bombay Talkie, a lovely post-modern neon gourmet Indian place over on 9th Avenue..
For appetizers, we had 'Papdi Chat,' crispy flour purses stuffed with potatoes and chickpeas with a tamarind and yogurt sauce, sweet, tangy, and crunchy....
Straightforward but scrumptious takes on two Indian classics: chicken korma - white meat in a mild creamy cashew based sauce...
....and biryani - lamb, basmatic rice, cashews, peas, mint, coriander, and coconut milk....
...and here's JP in the blue blue neon glow...
On Saturday we saw 'The Temperamentals,' a terrific Off-Broadway play set in Los Angeles the late 1940s and early 1950s about the earliest days of the gay liberation movement... Thomas Jay Ryan and Michael Urie (of 'Ugly Betty'!) play communist activist Harry Hay and designer Rudy Gernreich, who fell in love and tried to build a gay rights organization in the inhospitable terrain of McCarthy-era, Pre-Stonewall America... Beautifully written and acted, and very informative.... The supporting cast of three play twenty other characters...
...and on Sunday, we went to Film Forum to see Nicholas Ray's powerful and subversive 1954 psychological Western 'Johnny Guitar,' driven by two very strong women - Joan Crawford as an saloon owner and Mercedes McCambridge as a spurned woman on a rampage... brilliant acting and dialogue, stunning landscapes, and a very modern sensibility... a Western if you don't like Westerns... Here's a key scene with estranged lovers Joan Crawford and (the very, very tall) Sterling Hayden....
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