Posted on 01/09/2007 1:12:38 PM PST by Paddlefish
IT may be the least likely movie title of the year but Tupperware! is set to win the seal of approval from film-goers everywhere. The big budget drama, which is about to start filming, tells the story of the nifty airtight plastic containers - found in just about every home in the UK.
Even the Queen uses Tupperware, as the Daily Mirror's Ryan Parry discovered when he famously infiltrated Buckingham Palace in 2003.
A Broadway musical about the brand, Sealed For Freshness, is also due to open next month - with both show and film timed to coincide with the centenary of inventor Earl Silas Tupper's birth.
His container changed the modern kitchen and became one of the 20th century's greatest icons.
Even today, a Tupperware party is held every two seconds somewhere in the world by a million-strong army of saleswomen.
But if you think a film about Tupperware - albeit from the Oscar-winning writer of Sideways and About Schmidt - will be about as interesting as a group of women discussing plastic boxes, then think again.
The true story of how smalltown recluse Tupper turned a simple idea into a global phenomenon, making millions in the process, is as fascinating as his plastic containers are useful.
Labouring on his parents' New Hampshire farm, young Tupper always fancied himself a latterday Leonardo, continually sketching ideas for "inventions".
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I'm glad his name wasn't Schwarzenegger.
Or Ungar.
Ah, Tupper the traitor.
Ann Summers lingerie parties put a female-friendly face on UK erotic retail ^
Does his treason merely include moving out of the U.S. or is there something else?
His renunciation of US citizenship.
LOL! I remember when I was very young, my grandmother would have tupperware parties. They were a hoot lol.
I guess that's the thing about such visionary Yankee eccentrics: there's the good (they don't just go along with everyone else) and the bad (they can get really far from ordinary, normal or commendable behavior). You can see this sort of mix in a lot of science professors and inventors and self-made millionaires.
The strange thing is that "traitor Tupper's" papers ended up in the Smithsonian. So maybe America didn't hold a grudge.
How do you regard Armand Hammer?
Hammer was a filthy pinko who engaged in free-lance diplomacy with the Soviets. He also happened to be a close confidant of Al Gore's father.
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