Jackets are like sweet papers, and it's difficult to sell sweets without a wrapper".
Unfortunately, it isn't just sweet papers and mobile phones that actors detect.
When Georges Prêtre, who has died aged 92, conducted the opening bars of his first opera, Saint-Saëns Samsonn et Dalila, they were disturbed by rustling sweet papers.
If you sit in one of your own films, you are exquisitely alert to the rustling of sweet papers, to the coughing and shuffling, and to the moments where people decide to go and urinate.
They wanted to give him stuff: roses, sweets, paper planes, pens, kisses.
Dessert was a blur: of a sherry cocktail with pecan bitters; of cranberry sorbet, studded with candied orange peel, on a pedestal of frozen cranberry juice; of a miniature apple pie topped with melted cheddar and sprigs of thyme; of cones fashioned from glossy sweet-potato paper filled with marshmallow.
To corral snacks, sweets and paper goods, Ms. Costello uses free-standing drawers at the bottom of her pantry; she recommends filling them with clear, airtight containers to hold dry goods, identified with chalkboard or dry-erase labels that are easily updated when contents change.
Daintier was "the Bounty," a beautiful array of raw and cooked vegetables — tiny crunchy radishes with their tops, tender rounds of sweet potato, paper-thin fried slices of beet — with little cruets of shallot labne and a walnut bagna cauda for dipping, all nestled in a shallow ceramic bowl.
Line the container with foil or paper sweet cases and arrange the sweets into the container or box.
