in knowing you can weather a crisis like this. I've done it before with the soaking beans and making lots of stuff from potatoes, yeast, cream, powdered cocoa, canned juice, velveeta cheese. Cabbage and zucchini are cheap and go a long way too. Don't eat meat anymore but quorn and tofurkey tastes pretty good in casseroles and soups so-- It's great to read articles like this just as it's great to talk to people in the checkout line who are stocking up on pasta and other cheap stuff, you don't feel like you're struggling alone. Another good bean dish is ham hocks cooked in pinto beans and chicken broth with white onions with cornbread, so good. Another good one is cornbread layered with canned tomatoes, cheese and cut-up hotdogs. In a greased cakepan put in the cornbread batter, then a layer of cutup hotdogs, then tomatoes, then cheese, then another layer of batter, then more shredded cheese. It's pretty good. Baking bread is not that difficult either, it's delicious and dresses up the simplest meals. Good luck everybody.

You forgot Frankie and Johnny. I have never seen a man in a film look at a woman the way AP looked at Michelle Pfeifer in that movie. I really believed he loved her. BTW, just watched Raging Bull. There was much yelling and screaming in that film. Does that diminish the acting? No. Al Pacino is emphatic when called for. Oh you also forgot The Insider with Russell Crowe. Give AP great material and he rises to the occasion.

if you prefer johnny depp's acting to al pacino's, there's nothing more to be said. No one can possibly explain to you what a good performance is.

About the looking at a woman like michelle pfeifer and being slapped with a restraining order, it is a fine line, and not everyone can pull it off.

Comparing Marlon Brando to Al Pacino, Brando comes out the loser unfortunately. Al Pacino has far better roles to his credit. Towards the end of his life and career Brando displayed nothing but contempt for his profession. In defense of Brando tho, he chewed the scenery in Streetcar and it was still a worthwhile performance. Brad Pitt delivered an over-the-top performance in Fight Club. It was still enjoyable. Scenery chewing is only intolerable when it's done by Rachel Rae or Joy Behar.

You are so right about that particular paragraph. It leads me to believe that is what hate feels like. I'm sorry for the LW that she receives frequent phone calls from her mother. Maybe she should change her phone number. I don't speak with my parents and it really, really helps.

I am so glad to hear that you're enjoying yourself, and things do sound great. So what is it you do and how did you get to be able to do it?

About the article, sometimes people just don't have the right words, and they don't know they don't have the right words so they keep on talking and making it worse. So--you know. Don't get mad.

Yes, let's clarify what you mean by filth. If he is so cheap that he doesn't pay for garbage service and keeps all of his garbage in the basement until he gets around to hauling it to the dump so that his house smells to high heaven, I would say dump him. If he is so cheap that he keeps a box spring leaning against the wall in his diningroom because "it's a very good box spring" for 20 years, I would again say unacceptable. If he has had the same very uncomfortable couch for 20 years that is full of dog and cat hair when he has not had a dog or cat for 10 years, again unacceptable. If he has a fish tank in his living room which still has water in it but the fish have been dead for some 10 years, you're dating my cousin who is a millionaire on paper but lives totally without comfort. I really just wanted to vent about my cousin. But if he looks at your new shoes and can't say, "I like your new shoes," but instead says something about what a spendthrift you are and how you're doomed to a life of poverty, you're dating your mother.

that's all that plays at the movies--crappy material with good actors seemingly giving it their all. It's depressing. I can't think of one big name movie start young or old who hasn't been in some throwaway piece of garbage recently. The better movies are hard to find, but they do make them. I've always liked JS.