Elzar (John DiMaggio), the short tempered and arrogant four-armed Neptunian TV chef in the American science fiction sitcom Futurama, runs his own restaurant, Elzar's Fine-Cuisine, and hosts his own cooking show, Essence of Elzar.
I was featured on Steve Harvey's talk show, Essence.com, BlackEnterprise.com and Ebony.com as "Worth The Wait Guy".
This work was meant to show the essence of what Okakura, who lived and worked mostly in Boston, regarded as the essence of the Asian spirit.
Reds that show the essence of pinot noir.
But those stolid words do not express the light and lacy prettiness that made theValentino show the essence of summer.
Harradine is not so crass as to try to recreate the light, it is more as if he is trying to show its essence.
You sense O'Carroll has diluted his own show's essence for wider multiplex consumption: while the sitcom could be broad, it was often clever with it, and never this bland.
There's one memorable moment, which defines this show's essence, in which Fiorello instructs a too-genteel all-female picket line of garment workers to raise their voices to sell their cause.
"I'm not in marketing," he said, "But when you take a step back, and say, 'Hey, I e-mailed my friends about a great vodka or a great Off Broadway show,' in essence I am a marketer and I'm doing it for free".
For Mr. Babani the goal of the Chocolate Factory, where theatergoers sit as close as three feet from the actors, is to remove the distractions of epic-size production numbers, which can consume money and rehearsal time, so the creators and cast can focus on realizing a show's essence.
That's because, he points out, the results show, in essence, that being physically fit "compresses the time" that someone is likely to spend being debilitated during old age, leaving the earlier post-retirement years free of serious illness and, at least potentially, imbued with a finer quality of life.
