Dining with Rex Reed: Strange food

At Pride, Unprejudiced, check out a quick survey of Rex Reed's food fixations, in light of his recent, racially tinged review of Oldboy: "Even a cursory search shows that prose is stranger than fiction: Oldboy is not Reed's first serving of crackpot culinary dish. Graze the buffet: Reviewing Be Cool: “To call it one more movie about the pop music business that fails to nail its target with a sharp punch is like inviting a man with food poisoning to dinner in a clam house.” Reviewing Rockstar: “Rock stars have the shelf life of unrefrigerated clams." Along with the suggestion that Adrien Brody ought to have a nice meal, Reed notes in The Jacket “fake tears that have the odd consistency of maple syrup.” [More at the link.]