Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driving to work one winter morning in his 45th year, Barney Cashman, as securely strapped into his black four-door sedan as into his whole middle-class existence, pulls up at a toll booth He looks yearningly across at a ravishing beauty in the car next to him. "So many pretty girls," he soliloquizes. "When I was a kid, there were maybe six or seven pretty girls. Today they're all pretty...
...Barney's libido is tied up in as many knots as a second-grader's shoelace. When three pretty girls in succession offer him amatory opportunities, he is pathetically and sometimes hilariously unable to follow through. The first, Elaine Navazio, frequents the Manhattan sea food restaurant that Barney manages and practically sends him semaphore signals over the shrimp cocktail. He invites her to a rendezvous -at his mother's apartment, which is empty during the day while his mother works. Barney supplies his own bottle of J & B and buys his own glasses in Bloomingdale...
Directed by BARNEY PLATTS-MILLS Screenplay by BARNEY PLATTS-MILLS
From the panhandlers and hare Krishna drummers outside the Coop to bell-bottomed young professionals lunching upstairs at Barney's, from the little old ladies shopping for bedspreads at Woolworth's to the tight little knots of blue-collar worker who gather at Whitney's every night for a beer after work, Cambridge probably has as varied a population as any other six square miles in the country...
...decent steaks, Barney's (22 Boylston St.) and Buddy's Sirloin Pit (across from the Brattle Theater) are both good. The Wursthaus (4 Boylston St.) has family fare with a slight German accent (mostly affected), and is a little over-priced. The headwaiter and the waitresses tend to be rude to students. Cesa Mexico (75 Winthrop St.) serves really good fancy Mexican food, but the prices are high. Iruna (56 Boylston St.) is the same story with Spanish fare...