{"id":647,"date":"2014-05-12T07:53:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/?p=647"},"modified":"2014-05-18T04:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T12:18:00","slug":"raising-a-cornetto-to-les-halles-showing-of-le-dernier-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2014\/05\/raising-a-cornetto-to-les-halles-showing-of-le-dernier-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising a cornetto to Les Halles&#8217; showing of Le Dernier Pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son and I went to see the new Simon Pegg and Nick Frost movie, <em>World&#8217;s End, <\/em>which the French had titled <em>Le Dernier Pub<\/em> (The Last Pub).<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t easy for this American to get a ticket. My credit card lacked the microchip that European cards contain. Old US credit card technology has yet to catch up with this, so our banks will need to do a total overhaul of our technology. I hope they&#8217;ve started.<\/p>\n<p>I had to find an ATM at Forum les Halles and get <em>back<\/em> in line, <em>then<\/em> buy the ticket with the cash. Not too high a price to pay since this movie was already making me laugh, based on the trailers I&#8217;d seen, before I even entered the theater.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The theater was magnificent. It&#8217;s in the cinema wing of the Right Bank&#8217;s Forum les Halles, a multiplex on &#8220;rue du cinema,&#8221; with movie memorabilia shops mixed in with Starbucks and little food places. The seats were plush and comfortable, and the stadium seating meant short me didn&#8217;t have to look around any Frenchie giant heads, hats, or hairdos It was pretty fun being the first ones in the audience to get the jokes. And &#8220;Starbucking&#8221; will enter the <em>Oxford English<\/em> <em>Dictionary<\/em> in 2014, I&#8217;m sure of it.<\/p>\n<p>As Nick-and-Simon fans know, this movie is the third of the &#8220;cornetto trilogy,&#8221; referring to the British ice cream snack. Cornettos are not exactly <em>featured<\/em> in each movie, but they are meaningfully mentioned or noted, albeit fleetingly in<em> World&#8217;s End.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Walking back to the apartment, my son and I did\u00c2\u00a0<em>not<\/em> find full-on cornettos, but the little shop downstairs sold us a box of six cornetto-<em>like<\/em> strawberry ice cream cone things. We watched <em>Daily Show<\/em> reruns as we downed the desserts. Vin Diesel&#8217;s <em>Riddick (<\/em><em>not\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>part of a cornetto or any other snack trilogy) opens in Paris next week, and I&#8217;m gathering the cash to go see it here before flying home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-650 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0420-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0420\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0420-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0420-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son and I went to see the new Simon Pegg and Nick Frost movie, World&#8217;s End, which the French had titled Le Dernier Pub (The Last Pub). It wasn&#8217;t easy for this American to get a ticket. My credit card lacked the microchip that European cards contain. 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