The quality-control department has left the building and anyone with a halfdecent memory of a half-remembered match is out there publishing his memoirs. The scraps, the scrapes, the sessions — oh, what fun we had. Except we didn't have much fun, did we? Most of them are poor.

The brusque New York chef [Ali Yeganeh] who was lampooned on Seinfeld as the Soup Nazi plans to open a chain of takeout soup stands across North America. But don’t expect the authentically rude New York treatment.

, II.28: being demanded what his studies would stead him in his decrepity, [he] answered; that he might the better, and with more ease leave this world.

in good sooth