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"  Since everybody knows that the dinner hour leading up to the Oscars \u2014 with all the red-carpet processions, the endless posing, and the panning of the onlookers \u2014 is always the best part of the Academy Awards show, it would be a whole lot of fun to throw an Oscar party starting at 7 p.m. and going on &amp;#039;til the damn thing&amp;#039;s over. Let Wolgang Puck serve pot pies and smoked-salmon gallette. With a little imagination, you can throw a heck of a party that draws on some of the best food scenes in the movies. Cocktails The two best options are James Bond&amp;#039;s famous Vesper vodka martini from Casino Royale or White Russians from The Big Lebowski. As Bond describes his drink of choice: &amp;quot;Three measures of Gordon&amp;#039;s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it&amp;#039;s ice-cold, then add a large, thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?&amp;quot; The Dude&amp;#039;s White Russian \u2014 which Esquire drinks correspondent David Wondrich calls &amp;quot;the mark of the hipster&amp;quot; \u2014 is made with one ounce vodka, one ounce coffee liqueur, like Tia Maria or Kahlua, and one ounce cream. When asked by a bartender if he wants a refill, the Dude replies, &amp;quot;Does the Pope shit in the woods?&amp;quot; Canap\u00E9s Remember Tom Hanks as a ten-year-old boy in Big when he tries to eat the baby corn, then upchucks on the caviar? Serve both. Or you could pass around a tray of hard-boiled eggs, 50 of which Paul Newman consumed on a bet in Cool Hand Luke. Also good would be canap\u00E9-size chicken salad sandwiches of the kind Jack Nicholson ordered at a diner from the &amp;quot;no substitutions&amp;quot; waitress in Five Easy Pieces:      Pasta If you want to go all out, call a good Italian restaurant and try to get them to make you a timballo \u2014 the thousand-layered macaroni, cheese, and meat Sicilian lasagna that Tony Shaloub and Stanley Tucci serve at their 1950s New Jersey restaurant in Big Night. (The recipe is in Tucci&amp;#039;s mother&amp;#039;s Italian cookbook.) Simpler would be homemade gnocchi, like the kind Andy Garcia shows Sofia Coppola how to make (as a form of foreplay) in The Godfather: Part III. Salad The two great Hollywood salads are the Caesar and the Cobb. The former was concocted on July Fourth weekend in 1924 at Caesar Cardini&amp;#039;s restaurant in Tijuana, where all the Hollywood crowd came to eat and drink during Prohibition. In turn, the dish became a big hit at places like Romanoff&amp;#039;s and Chasen&amp;#039;s in Los Angeles. The chopped Cobb salad, made with avocado, greens, hard-boiled egg, Roquefort cheese, and bacon, was the creation in 1926 of Robert Cobb, owner of Hollywood&amp;#039;s Brown Derby restaurant, as a way to use leftovers in the refrigerator. Main Course If you really want to cook, go crazy and reproduce the magnificent dinner served by the former chef at Paris&amp;#039;s Caf\u00E9 Anglais to the elderly locals of Jutland in Babette&amp;#039;s Feast: &amp;quot;Potage \u00E0 la Tortue&amp;quot; (turtle soup); &amp;quot;Blini Demidoff au Caviar&amp;quot; (buckwheat cakes with caviar and sour cream); &amp;quot;Caille en Sarcophage avec Sauce P\u00E9rigourdine&amp;quot; (quail in puff pastry shell with foie gras and truffle sauce); &amp;quot;La Salade&amp;quot; featuring Belgian endive and walnuts in a vinaigrette; and &amp;quot;Les Fromages&amp;quot; featuring bleu cheese, papaya, figs, grapes, and pineapple, and a dessert of &amp;quot;Savarin au Rhum avec des Figues et Fruit Glac\u00E9e&amp;quot; (rum sponge cake with figs and glac\u00E9ed fruits).  But if you want to be churlish, consider Dr. Hannibal Lecter&amp;#039;s description of one of his cannibal meals: &amp;quot;I ate his liver with fava beans and nice Chee-ann-tee.&amp;quot; Okay, maybe you skip the main course. Wine Pinot Noir from Santa Barbara, the only wine Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti) will drink in Sideways: &amp;quot;No, if anyone orders Merlot, I&amp;#039;m leaving. I am not drinking any fucking Merlot!&amp;quot; The movie actually boosted sales of pinot noir and set back sales of merlot. Desserts Chocolate, as in Chocolat, in which the mysterious Juliette Binoche brings a provincial French town to its knees with her sensuous chocolates, like &amp;quot;Unrefined cacao nips from Guatemala, to awaken the passions&amp;quot; and chocolate shells that cause the town mayor to go to confession for &amp;quot;impure thoughts.&amp;quot;  Or you could serve a &amp;quot;waf-fer theen&amp;quot; mint at meal&amp;#039;s end, as did ma\u00EEtre d&amp;#039; John Cleese to gourmand Monsieur Creosote (Terry Jones) before he exploded in Monty Python&amp;#039;s The Meaning of Life. After-Dinner Drink Back to 007 here, in Goldfinger, when his boss, M (Bernard Lee), asks why Bond is not drinking his cognac. Bond (Sean Connery) replies, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d say it was a thirty-year-old fine, indifferently blended, with an overdose of ... Bon Bois.&amp;quot; MORE: 9 Commandments for Throwing an Oscar Party &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; PLUS: John Mariani on Esquire&amp;#039;s Eat Like a Man Blog &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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