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Shrimp Forrest, shrimp

On no particular day of my holidays in California, but for a particular reason, I decided to go to Universal City in Los Angeles. And “when I got hungry, I ate” at Bubba Gump Shrimp. It might not be the most exquisite place in the world, but if I search the Internet for the “most popular shrimp restaurants”, Google ranks it third. The story behind it seems to be nothing but shrimps. “Bubba was from Bayou la Batrie, Alabama, and his mama cooked shrimp”, explains Forrest Gump in the Oscar-awarded movie produced in 1994. “And her mama before her cooked shrimp, and her mama before her mama  ...

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Hereafter: just another Eastwood movie

I watched Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter” during an eleven-hour flight from Amsterdam to Los Angeles after I read the news about the movie being pulled from the Japanese cinemas. Although considered as inappropriate for Japanby Warner Bros, the tsunami scenes in the beginning are a strong reason for Americans or Europeans to see it. The film unveils the story of a woman, a boy and a man, all being connected by the afterlife. Marie Laley (Cecile de France), a French TV anchor, survived the tsunami wave that hit South Asia in 2005, but the backslashes impact on her career and love relationship.