Good for the Tummy and the Heart

The critic's secret heart is exposed in the latest Word For Word production: "Food Stories - Pleasure is Pleasure." This is a fabulous show, not to be missed, and as you know, this grouchy guy does not say that often. Here's the SF Theater Blog link.

One of the subthemes of the T.C. Boyle story "Sorry, Fugu" which opens the evening, is the concept of how saying no is so much easier than saying yes. As a publisher once explained to Plotnik, "no one ever lost their job by saying no."

The guy who said no to Elvis or the Beatles is probably still working. The guy who said yes to "Cheseburgers on Ice" or that new phenom that neither you nor anyone else has ever heard of was probably in the unemployment office by the weekend.

A restaurant critic is one of the main critics in the first story. Some of us, who used to be restaurant critics, but are now theater critics, will be forced to realize that we never looked as good in our Reviewer Outfit as Delia MacDougall does in that cool red dress.