MUSINGS IN THE KEY OF E . Selections from library@esplanade Lulu In Hollywood Louise Brooks, with introduction by Kenneth Tynan Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Call No.: English 791.43028092 BRO -ART Available at library@esplanade Click here for item availability. Think ‘Roaring Twenties’ and the first things that come to your mind would probably...

MUSINGS . library@esplanade Big Night Directed by Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott Call No.: 791.4372 BIG Two Italian brothers, Primo and Secondo, have opened a restaurant in America, thinking that their selection of authentic Italian food will attract hordes of big American eaters to their restaurant. They soon come to realise that making money in...

MUSINGS . library@esplanade Tampopo (Dandelion) Directed and written by Juzo Itami Call No.: AV 791.4372 TAM -[ART] With his cowboy hat and Clint Eastwood-like swagger, Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki) makes a fitting lead character for Juzo Itami’s critically-acclaimed ‘noodle western’, Tampopo. The film follows the trucker as he attempts to transform Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto), a widowed...

WORD UP . book issues + commentaries It used to be so simple. A cookbook serves a simple function – to teach people how to cook. Harried housewives read cookbooks for new recipes to feed husband and children while homesick students, yearning for the warmth of home, try to recreate a few of mum’s specials....

DEAR READER . editorial by Joycelyn Tay, Librarian, Adult and Young People’s Services Food is an important issue. After all, the fall of mankind began when Eve ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. I imagine the fruit looks a little like deliciously milky chocolate soufflé that left her feeling...

WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations Hoboken, New Jersey; John Wiley & Sons Inc, c 2006 Call No.: 658.4052 ROS -[BIZ] Click here for item availability. We all know the Donald – the pout, the hair, the wealth. The real estate mogul who famously declared himself worth “many billions”. Mr “You’re Fired” of the hit...

HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets At her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath left a number of poems unpublished: most of these were written after the completion of Colossus (1962) but before the welter of poems that constituted the posthumously published Ariel (1965). From this group, the TLS published the riddling ‘An Appearance’ on...