soup

Epitomizing the challenges for local business is John’s Garden, a beloved sandwich, salad and soup shop in the Malibu Country Mart.

After embarking on a leek soup detox and discovering her “willpower,” Guiliano loses the weight, keeping it off even after her return to the States.

Even going to the soup kitchen at her school was "like an adventure", she said.

But it’s hard not to see the parallel between the generosity Howard heaps upon the overwhelmed stranger — hot spilled soup, shattered wine mugs, fists lit on fire — and the generosity Hollywood had thrust upon Hackman.

Movie magic is an elusive soup, a mind-altering drug.