Happines is a choice

BLAUER KEGELBERG, Gabriele Munter

Bust of a man in profile with measurements and notes, Leonardo Da Vinci

Medium: ink,paper

Comparison of scalp skin and onion, Leonardo Da Vinci

Medium: chalk,ink,paper

TROPICAL TREASURES

The new film The Founder tells the story of Ray Kroc, who turned a single California burger restaurant into a multi-billion dollar worldwide franchise. Michael Keaton plays Kroc. Critic David Edelstein says:

“It’s hard to believe there was a time McDonald’s wasn’t ubiquitous on the American landscape and its assembly-line model for food service wasn’t the model. For that alone, you should see the Ray Kroc biopic The Founder, crisply directed by John Lee Hancock from a script by Robert Siegel. Because alongside Adams and Jefferson and Hamilton, we should consider the Founding Father of fast food culture.

The movie’s title, I should say, is barbed. Kroc turned an ingeniously mechanized San Bernardino fast-food hamburger restaurant created by Dick and Mac McDonald into a franchising goldmine—make that diamond mine. But despite his later claims, he didn’t actually found the restaurant. He more or less stole it.