Foodies will be fascinated, but for anyone the film is quiet and witty, personal and detailed, smart and absorbing.
In dating terms, it was like responding to a brilliantly witty personal ad in the London Review of Books, only to come face to face with an accountant carrying a copy of the Daily Express.
Witty's personal best is 35.5.
Mr. Gallo's contribution is, like so much of his work, ridiculous, witty, wholly personal and rather beautiful.
Written in meditative, generous prose, it is at once formally accomplished and intimate, high-minded but personal, witty but substantive.
The record speaks for something more resolute: a lifetime's dedication to a craft of which she became master - the sly, informative, witty and important personal column.
She launched her blog Alright Tit shortly after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008: it was a witty and inspiring personal diary about "the extraordinary life of an ordinary girl woman" – not, she insisted, "Just Another Moany Health Blog".
Her own failed first marriage was just one among several outrageous topics tackled in this set of witty and very personal essays — a talent that had won her some notoriety in 2004 when she read another of her essays on the public radio show "This American Life".
Life Moves Pretty Fast emerges as not only a highly personal, witty love letter to 80s movies, but also an intellectually vigorous, well-researched take on the changing times of the film industry and how, sadly, they're not changing for the better.
But like only the very best, it parlays that into a searingly witty and original personal attack; looking like an idiot is one thing – after all, who doesn't – but going to trouble to not look like an idiot and looking like an epochal idiot is something else entirely.
This personal, erudite, witty and fascinating exploration of the Greek world is super-abundantly rich in sagacity and insight.
