Daniel Boulud's "Whiplash" Flashbacks
Category: ENTERTAINMENT
J. K. Simmons' music teacher from hell may earn him an Oscar, but he is also having an unanticipated nightmare effect on anyone who has had rigorous training, no matter what the field. We've seen movies about cordon bleu culinary school. Can cooking school really be as severe as the blood-letting in Whiplash?
By Regina Weinreich, ContributorAuthor, 'Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics', 2015-02-22