NOUN | a fortune cookie | fortune cookies | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- In 1966, Lemmon began the first of his many collaborations with actor Walter Matthau in "The Fortune Cookie".
- It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter, respectively, whose bodies are switched by a mysterious and magical Chinese fortune cookie.
- and "a fortune cookie Homer writes, 'You will be aroused by a shampoo commercial'."
- Instead of the money going towards a feature about a fortune cookie writer, he decided to make "Spanking the Monkey", a film about an incestuous mother-son relationship.
- A heavy smoker, Matthau had a heart attack in 1966 while filming "The Fortune Cookie", the first of at least three in his lifetime.
- Long Island City is currently home to the largest fortune cookie factory in the United States, owned by Wonton Foods and producing four million fortune cookies a day.
- The episode's plot was based on Billy Wilder's 1966 film "The Fortune Cookie".
- , a form of fortune cookie dating at least to the 19th century, and which are believed by some to be the origin of the American fortune cookie.
- The children's novella "Hong Kong Phooey and the Fortune Cookie Caper" by Jean Lewis, illustrated by Phil Ostapczuk, was published in 1975 by Rand McNally and Company, as well as "Hong Kong Phooey and the Bird Nest Snatchers" (1976) and "Hong Kong Phooey and the Fire Engine Mystery" (1977).
- In the film "The Fortune Cookie" (1966), Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) carries a hardcover copy of the novel into his bedroom.
- Published in 2008, Lee wrote a book about the history of Chinese food in the United States and around the world, titled "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles", documenting the process on her blog.
- From the very beginning in 1954, the bottom of the comics included "fortunes" similar to those one would find in a fortune cookie, sometimes with a comedic bent.
- In 2017, Proctor published an autobiography entitled "Where's My Fortune Cookie?" coauthored with Brad Schreiber.
- The restaurant's walls are infested with monsters; when they periodically attack, Caesar eats a magical fortune cookie and transforms into the bio-mechanical ninja warrior Sharknife.
- Fortune cookies before the early 20th century were all made by hand.
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