Knifetime: Lifetime Channel Movie with Themed Drinks

A Recipe for Seduction

Mario Lopez stars as KFC mascot Colonel Sanders in this absurdist exercise in winking camp as shameless marketing. As the holidays draw near, a young heiress contends with the affections of a suitor who has been hand-picked by her mother. When a handsome chef arrives with a secret recipe and a dream, he sets in motion a series of events that unravel her plans. “This rom-comic ad-movie is campy, but not camp in the strict Sontagian sense. It’s silly, but deeply aware of its silliness. It’s escapist in a moment when distraction from the world’s realities can be a rare commodity.” –The Atlantic

Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation

Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) stars as jaw-droppingly coifed Christian diet guru Gwen Shamblin, who preached the power of prayer for weight loss, accumulating power and money as a larger-than-life public persona with dramatically teased hair. Her reign comes to a tragic end in May 2021, when the plane her husband Joe is flying crashes, killing Gwen, Joe, their son-in-law and four other church leaders. “Grey does a stellar job of disappearing into the character and becoming Shamblin, from her early days as a diet-obsessed young nutritionist who founded a modest weight-loss program called the Weigh Down Workshop in Tennessee through the exponential growth of the program to the point where it had more than 250,000 members and Shamblin founded her own church.” -Chicago Sun-Times