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Breakfast the next morning at the Hotel Koryo was a treat. Pickled pollack spawn - a brown spiced salty fishy paste - and other delicacies were laid out on the buffet. The room had a mirrored ceiling, a fluorescent painting, two scary ceramic dancing pigs on the buffet table and very loud, saccharine Korean love songs coming over the PA. Guests sat alone in the middle of the room surrounded by six bow-tied waiters...
Well, our prurient, inappropriate concern did add a buzz to an overlong buffet of stardust memories. Smith dishes--remembering, for instance, a farcical night dropping acid with actress Holland Taylor. But she does it, generally, with obsequious reverence and block-that-metaphor prose (Joan Crawford was "her own nebula--a woman who hauled herself up by her bootstraps and created her glittering star self from scratch"). That soft touch has made her the Barbara Walters of gossip, with access to match. "[W]ouldn't you rather I dealt with it Liz Smith-style?" she asks subjects. After a few hundred...
...Jovi and a beaming k.d. lang. The performers each contributed one or two of their hits, an astute choice for a benefit crowd that nuzzles more contentedly on familiarity than new terrain. When the artist roster first reached back into the 1970s it yielded the laid-back Buffet, who revealed the "play one or two of your hits" strategy requested by the benefit organizers. "Fortunately, I've only had two hits," he quipped. He also scored by incorporating impressions of George Bush stumbling over the word du jour "subliminal...
...become the people our parents warned us about!" That quip by veteran singer Jimmy Buffet underscored the zeitgeist at Thursday night's major Democratic fund-raiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Vice President Al Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman, with respective spouses and Hillary Clinton for good (and local) measure were the front-row guests of honor through a three-hour concert that raised a very impressive $6.5 million...
...Francisco-based country group called the Court and Spark (a user named Rodco called the band "supercool mood country"). Using a 56K modem, it took a mind-numbing 2 hr. 20 min. to download the band's track Sugar Pie in Bed (this critic was able to have a buffet lunch, shop at Barnes & Noble and listen to the new Papa Roach CD in the interim). Still, the track, with its gently curmudgeonly vocals and drowsy guitar, was worth the hassle. Well, maybe...