European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Peanut butter smooth but quota Tough to crack t does t happen often but every once in a while there a Good news. Such As this the Peanut crop is the biggest in history and Peanut butter should be about 20 percent cheaper next year. I can to think of anything More american than Peanut butter or any news better than that its going to get cheaper. Peanut butter is a Happy food because kids have such a Good time eating it. Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches Are Standard in lunch boxes for school kids. I liked pc lev and i liked Peanut butter but i never liked pea Plain Pfeiffer faces up to role in new movie by Bernard Weinraub the new York times Michelle Pfeiffer is peeved. She has heard the comments about her playing a drab Plain even frumpy waitress in the new film Frankie and Johnny. She has heard the snickers. Only in Hollywood would one of the most gorgeous film stars in town step into a role that personifies the Ordinary. A to say that this woman is homely is not True at All Quot said Pfeiffer her voice rising As she recalled the off Broadway version with Kathy Bates As Frankie. Quot Kathy Bates is not homely. She a a Beautiful woman. She solder than i am and physically different but comeliness is not the Issue it is she said loneliness. But if the Issue for Hollywood remains the seemingly incongruous casting of Michelle Pfeiffer As an emotionally damaged woman in the Paramount pictures film it annoys not Only the Star but also the director Garry Marshall and the writer Terrence Mcnally who adapted the motion picture from his 1987 play. Quot this was never a play or a movie about a woman who was physically unappealing a said Mcnally. Quot its about a woman who says a i done to need a Date. 1 done to need someone else. Ill slay Home and watch movies and eat Peanut butter and Jelly. Life is too painful. The dating game is not what in a this is not about physical appearance at All. Quot Hollywood is filled with Beautiful unhappy women who have shut Down. Emotionally people Are As Cut off and frustrated and unconnected in Hollywood As Frankie is. It has absolutely nothing Tii do with the Way you look. Pfeiffer. 33. Sas that in Many ways she identified with the tormented Frankie. "1 was excited about the Opportunity of just playing an Ordinary person with Eer Day Lears a cry Day struggles. Nut butter and Jelly. As a child you got to like whatever Brand of Peanut butter your Mother bought. We always had Beech nut Peanut butter. Beech nut no longer makes Peanut butter. The big Sellers now Are if. Skippy and Peter pan. I like smucker a because it in t homogenized and the Oil comes to the top. I like knowing there a really Oil in it even though i have to stir it every time. Peanut butter lovers Are divided about whether they like it creamy or Chunky. Here 1 come Down on the Side of the creamy. I done to want any chunks in my Peanut butter. If 1 want chunks. I la cat the peanuts whole. 1 done to know How american kids get hooked on Peanut butter but just As magically As they get to like it. They become teen agers and Stop eating it. As Good As it is Peanut butter just never was a sophisticated grown up gourmet food. About half of All peanuts grown Are ground up for Peanut butter. But peanuts themselves roasted and salted have a mysteriously addictive Quality. There s no food As hard to Stop eating once you Start. There a something complicated going on Between our brains and our taste buds when we eat peanuts. Technically peanuts Aren t nuts at All. Use this information to amaze your friends. Peanuts Are legumes like peas and Beans except that peanuts grow underground. Cashews Arentt huts either. They re seeds that Are grown on Evergreen Trees in South America botanically speaking tomatoes Are fruit. Not Michelle Pfeiffer Al Pacino in Frankie amp Johnny which opened stateside last week. Everyday sorrows a she said seated in her Small office in Century City where hundreds of scripts rested on bookshelves. Quot there a a fantasy that Beautiful people can to look unattractive or Arentt lonely or Aren t Hurt. Its All fantasy that if you re considered attractive you have a perfect life and there a no dark Side. Everybody goes through shutting Down and being Hurt and being frightened. Everybody. Quot the heart of the character the heart of the movie is about loneliness a she added. Quot you know the amazing thing about human beings is that when it comes to love no matter How beat up you think you Are no matter How scarred or wounded or Down you be become w Hen it comes to love you somehow manage to Muster up the courage to open yourself up one More time. It does t matter what you look like and How old Vou Are. That a not Marshall said his first impulse in easting the film was Jack Nicholson and Penny Marshall the Dirac the Crew a a scandalous political Side to the Peanut business in America that keeps prices artificially High. Peanut banners arc the beneficiaries of a Sweet Deal that costs plenty to every single Peanut butter buyer in the country. Not just any one can grow peanuts. You have to be a quota Holder. The Federal government issues licenses that allow a relatively Lew people to grow them. A quota Holder is Farmer who owns or rents land where peanuts were grown in 1941 and prior to that. No one else no one can grow peanuts. In America the . Government supports a Price of Smi a ton for peanuts sold in the United states. Canadian Peanut butter makers and there Are a few can buy peanuts from our Farmers for $333 a ton a Little More than half. Canadian manufacturers sell Peanut butter in Canadian stores for about the same Price As they sell it Here but they pay half As much for their peanuts. . Peanut butter makers Are plenty mad about it. Our Peanut Farmers Are further protected by a Law that allows for few peanuts to be imported. We complain that the japanese won t let our Rice in but then we turn around and refuse to allow anyone to sell us peanuts. This artificially High Peanut Price like government sponsored tobacco prices is one of thousands of pieces of stupid pork barrel legislation. Peanuts Are Good healthy food and in a glad we re going to have a lot of them. The Only thing that gives me indigestion is that quota system. Andy Rooney is a former stars and stripes to Poiret tors sister. I be also considered two unknowns. When Al Pacino agreed Marshall thought Pfeiller would provide the right chemistry. A i knew shed be ready to take the risks a said Marshall. A no Beauty no makeup no Glamour stuff. This is a play about two older people with a last Chance at love. Michelle told me she related to this girl a lot. That she shut Down her emotions after some difficult relationships with men. This girl is guarded she understood that. A a lot of times Quot he went on Quot i looked in the camera and said a too we changed the lighting and hair. You know she was hired originally in this town As a Beautiful girl but she a Learned How to act. Right now she san actress of unlimited Range. She works incredibly hard a the body language the hair the voice. She a not bothered by movie Star stuff a whether she has a Rug in her trailer or not. She does no to Pfeiffer hits gained a reputation As a hardworking and private it somewhat mysterious Star w Hose career has veered from Glamour roles to those requiring considerable skill married to flip mob. The fabulous Linker Hoys the witches of Bias Twink dangerous unions inc Russia a Lousy. She has turned Down important parts including the Fri agent in i he silence of the , directed by her Friend. Jonathan Demme. Quot it was a wonderful script but the subject matter made me very nervous Quot she said. Unlike meryl Streep who has complained that male stars Are earning Many More millions than women Pfeiller save she docs t object to the inequity. She earned about s3 million for Frankie and Johnny. Pacino reportedly earned a million. Pfeiffer said Quot How old is Al Pacino How old am 1? Al deserves to make More Money. Jack Nicholson deserves whatever he gets. They be paid their dues. Now when in a their age it would be Nice if i earned As much As they do. A on the one hand yes. Maybe it is chauvinism. But let s be Ica Listic. I see homeless people every Day in my neighbourhood. And i see All these illegal aliens lined up for blocks at 7 in the morning wanting a Job that la pay s3 an hour loading rubble out of someone a backyard. So i can hardly complain even though there is sexism in the Pfeiffer is in the midst of filming Bat Nuin re turns with Michael Keaton. Asked about playing Bat woman she bursts into laughter. Quot its cd Atwo Man a How dare you Quot she shrugs. Quot everyone makes the same october 13, 1991 sunday a Page 7
