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...Borscht Sky. NBC once trumpeted its color programing with the argument (in an ad) that in a world without color, "pea soup would look exactly like borscht, and can you imagine London enshrouded in a borscht fog?" As if carried away with the notion, the network presented Dave Garroway's Today show against something magenta that could only have been a borscht sky. And at the other end of Color Day, The Jack Paar Show-which is tinted nightly and which in more than three years has remained immensely entertaining-seemed much the same, on or off-color...
This "Herblock of the Bistros" is no successor to such satirists as Fred Allen, Sid Caesar, W. C. Fields or Will Rogers. "Back to the Borscht Belt" with Sahl and his egghead liberal left pseudo-comedy, actually witty political propaganda vended by a wiseacre...
Bordello Opulence. Behind Lapidus' philosophy rests a firm conviction that architecture's age of simplicity is doomed. His hotels are a tossed salad of riotously flamboyant styles that range from borscht-belt baroque to Coney Island modern. With exaggeration that verges on caricature, he splashes his hotels with colorful bordello opulence that offends traditionalists, flabbergasts sophisticates and often delights the uninitiated. Lapidus takes pride in the fact that he gives people "something to gape at.'' In fact, he calls his arced, 565-room Fontainebleau a "tasteful three-ring circus." But the star turn among his hotels...
...simple pleasures of the koch alain (cook alone) bungalows, the overgrown farmhouses, the adult camps that catered to the hungry garment workers, the marriage-minded Manhattan secretaries of the '205 and '303. In those days, when the whole area was happy to be known as the Borscht Belt, the camps and hotels spawned their own entertainers. Danny Kaye, Moss Hart, Dore Schary, Phil Silvers-all served their apprenticeships, responding manfully to the boss's frantic cry: "Make the guests happy...
Despite all the planned activity, the biggest attraction of the Borscht Belt is still the opportunity it provides for generating togetherness. At Grossinger's, Hostess Karla Grossinger serves as matchmaker-psychologist, introduces couples with practiced skill. The weekly hotel newspaper (delivered to more than 100.-ooo alumni) proudly reports all marriages that can be traced back to a romance at the G. At the Concord, just inside the mammoth dining room, a wooden pegboard records who is sitting where-pink pegs for women, blue for men. Lighter and darker shades indicate relative ages. Thus the maitre d'hotel...