10th June 2011 News - Sort Of ...

~ Father of a family lost his Spanish nationality after admitting that he didn't know anything about football or make a Paella. - El Periodico

 

~ Science today: It's been distilled a new flavour for a drink for Mojito (a traditional Cuban Highball), based on a mother cell of Hemingway! - El Periodico

 

~ Two policemen of Los Angeles in active duty were discovered appearing in porno films. - La Razon

 

~ A youth gang attacked some deaf-mutes, confusing their sign language for another gang. - Meneame.net

 

~ A British mother had the face of her 8-year old daughter 're-touched' with botox - El Comerdo

 

~ The singer Shakira was robbed her ring in the midst of a concert. - la Vanguardia

 

~ Jorge Semprun, the famous Spanish writer died on Tuesday at 87, had once been asked, with sarcasm and disrespect (for his untiring defence for united Spain), whether he had 'rolled down his pants with the Catalans?', he replied: 'I don't understand democracy.' - El Periodico

 

~ All the above make led me to remember an apparently factual happening in the 19th century. An old man set fire on the rice field in a small coastal village, causing the inhabitants fleeing up the hills and their lives were saved, without knowing about the tsunami that could have destroyed them all, but his act was seen as barbaric by most. Did he do right, or wrong? - my memory bank

 

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10th June 2011 El Bulli - The Film Is Being Stewed ...

Like the story of the Titanic achieving world fame, Hollywood producer Jeff Kleeman declared yesterday that his film about 'El Bulli', 5 times officially selected as the world's best restaurant, would be the same. He used this comparison to explain the dimensions the film he is preparing about Ferran Adria, the most celebrated chef and owner of the restaurant. Although he didn't mention the estimated figure of the production cost, nor the cast of actors, the man of famous films like 'The hunt of the red October' and 'Star Trek 6' assured that it would be a super-production aimed at the general public and worldwide distribution. He and the script writer David Wilson have been saturated in the day to day comings and goings of the restaurant since the 31st of May. 

Being a script writer, I find David Wilson's description witty: 'The film will be like a meal in El Bulli, there would be humour, passion, and romance.' It's not just about the restaurant and it's now world class celebrity chef Ferran Adria, but many other famous chefs who had collaborated in El Bulli and, most significantly, the many apprentices that have passed it learning the trade and the WHY of it's great success. 

The film is inspired by the book 'Apprentices of sorcerers' by Lisa Abend, an American news correspondent, about people who entered as scholarship holders in El Bulli. The actor to play Adria has not yet been decided; Adria himself said he could see Johnny Depp as himself in the film, but Kleeman neither confirmed or denied it, saying that it's impossible to offer the roll to a star without a script in hand at the moment, but promised that it would be a very important star.

The film is to start shooting in the autumn of 2012 or spring of 2013. I am looking forward very much to seeing it. El Bulli is Roses where I live, just about 20+ minutes for me to get there. But I have only dined there twice, invited; it's far too expensive for my pocket.

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