"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:14:05 -0700, "Janet B." >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Dee.Dee" > wrote in message
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>>>
>>> Last night on Next Iron Chef, Symon won -- I was glad he won, too, but
>>> I'm
>>> glad they didn't show 'points' as they sometimes do.
>>> Alton had his suit along with his spikey hair-dooo.
>>>
>>> This morning I got up to finalize a movie that DH had wanted me to
>>> record - Point Blank with Lee Marvin on the Turner Movie Channel.
>>> Usually
>>> there is a regular guy with a lead-in about the movie. Last night
>>> must've
>>> been a 1960's night.
>>>
>>> But guess who was the second lead-in guy- ALTON! discussing it with the
>>> first lead-in regular guy. In this particular movie, Alton said he was
>>> probably too young to have seen the movie, but he had seen it, and that
>>> he
>>> liked the Sam Peckinpaw movies of the time. He said that he enjoyed
>>> seeing these types of movies, but didn't want to pattern his life in
>>> this
>>> way.
>>>
>>> Guess that's why he's out on the motorcycle doing TV shows-- reliving
>>> that
>>> part of his youth or that era that he didn't have.
>>>
>>> He looked like the was running from one studio to the other --
>>> ossibly? - because it looked like he had the same suit on. Of course,
>>> I
>>> didn't compare it -- wouldn't go that far.
>>>
>>> Dee Dee
>>>
>>He's a clever guy. The more you watch him, the more you see. I'm still
>>not
>>sure which persona is the real Alton because some parts seem in conflict,
>>but maybe he is just a diverse dude.
>>Janet
>
> I read a bio on him a few years ago and he is diverse. He originally
> graduated as a theater major and liked producing short movies. He got
> a cooking theme brainstorm and went back to school to become a chef.
> The rest is history. With all his talent he most go crazy when he
> sees Sandra Lee and hears Paulas speech impediment.
>
> Lou
Yes, I was aware of his history. But I'm curious about how much of the Good
Eats geek is real; how much of the sophisticated New Iron Chef contest
director is real; how much of the motor cycle/backroads foodie is real --
what else is there behind the scenes. He's a very clever wordsmith. Many
people can write as he obviously does for scripts, but he is a very natural
speaker (in several modes) as well.
Janet