These beauties are growing amid the pines at the edge of the orchard where Lesley is getting married in a few weeks. They are a natural variant of red raspberries, which I eat most mornings with other berries in plain yogurt for breakfast. Raspberry preserves with the seeds spread on Monterey Jack cheese is a snack I remember eating in college. Very yum. I just ate a golden raspberry, and it was tart and not very tasty. Maybe it's not quite ready yet. But it wasn't as bad as raspberry flavored cough syrup.
The Golden Raspberries are also "awards" for the worst of
Hollywood. Last year's big "winner" was Mike Myers' The Love Guru - worst picture, worst actor and worst screenplay. I didn't see it, did you? And worst actress was Paris Hilton in The Hottie and the Nottie. That last one was actually pretty good, I thought. And the plot is fascinating, about a man who wants to woo a beautiful woman (Paris) but her not-so-hot best friend is an obstacle.Um, I didn't really see it.
If you have a few minutes, it's fun to browse the Wiki site for the Razzies and see the connections between the Oscars and the Razzies (which are awarded the day before the Oscars). The site shows many actors and filmmakers who won or were nominated for Oscars and Razzies in the same year. For instance, Jack Nicholson was nominated for worst actor in 1992 for his roles in both "Hoffa" and "Man Trouble" but was also nominated for Best Supporting actor that year for "A Few Good Men."
Have you ever walked out of a movie at the theater because it was so bad? We walked out of "Congo" when Tim Curry's character Herkemer Homolka said "Liar, liar pants on fire." Even our kids looked at us in disbelief. Hey, I just looked up "Congo" on the Golden Raspberries site and it got worst picture for 1995, Tim Curry got worst supporting actor and John Patrick Shanley's adaptation of Michael Chrichton's book got the worst screenplay award. Ha!
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