Equally sweet (though much more touching and, paradoxically, harder edged) is the mating dance between the two retirees in the briefest of these stories, "Hanging Out at the Buena Vista".
Equally sweet and savoury, with a perfectly dense, pillowy texture, challah goes with just about anything, from typically Jewish cuisine like chicken soup to – if you fancy something a bit more sacrilegious – being the foundation for a glorious bacon sandwich.
Six months later, in the World Cup final, Hayden stared down a wild-eyed Zaheer Khan, belting a flurry of boundaries, then baiting him with equally sweet timing.
But his understated approach also makes him an unusually versatile singer, equally sweet atop a jazz arrangement or a hip-hop thump.
The other actors -- Marina Massironi as her New Agey neighbor, Giuseppe Massironi as the plumber-cum-private detective dispatched by Mimmo to bring Rosalba home, and especially Mr. Ganz -- are equally sweet and soulful.
Heaven knows, Julie Andrews was equally sweet in "The Sound of Music," but she could also let rip with "I Have Confidence," arms flung wide, as if to confess that sweetness alone would get you nowhere.
