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Default "Good Eats" show about Alton Brown's diet

frater mus wrote:
> On 01/07/10 10:15, Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>
>> Other than those, I think the diet looks okay, and it's obviously worked
>> wonders for him.

>
> It'd be more compelling if he didn't look like a cadaver now.


I agree. I think he looks awful, with a too tight neck and jaw, and
somewhat hollow eyes.

His show has lost a lot of its humor this season, too, although the
Christmas show was good. I saw him interviewed several weeks back on
"Sunday Morning" and that was when I first heard the explanation of the
diet although I first noticed its effects on the Good Eats anniversary
episode. Maybe it was a problem with my expectations, but he seemed
hurried, abrupt and wound tighter than a watch spring. He told the
interviewer about how he got into making a show about food, and when the
interviewer noted that AB is a cook he appeared to bristle and wasted no
time correcting, to wit, that he is a film maker and nothing else.

Soooooo, all the care and attention is just part of making good film? Is
it not really about the food for him? Is Brown using the Riefenstahl
defense?