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...Naperville, Illinois, is known as a witty romance novelist. She doesn't disappoint with her new book, Match Me if You Can (Morrow), which immediately landed on the New York Times bestsellers list. Galley Girl caught up with Phillips by phone, as she was having tea at a little cafe in Phoenix, taking a breather from her hectic book tour...
...Cafe Osaka, unemployment is made to seem almost agreeable. The experimental job-placement office, partially owned and operated by the Osaka city government, is staffed by women in brightly colored uniforms who greet their downcast clients with a bracing, robotically cheerful "Konnichiwa!" Job seekers, most of them dressed in dark blue "recruit suits," help themselves to free coffee, juice or oolong tea while perusing binders of employment listings and speaking to job counselors or company recruiters. The song Don't Worry, Be Happy endlessly loops over the sound system...
...over issues like Japan's rapidly aging (and soon to be declining) population and China's challenge to Japan for Asian hegemony, and there's plenty of cause for national concern. Roppongi Hills may be ready for the future, but Ijiri and the kids hanging out in the Job Cafe Osaka are not. Sociology professor Yamada says the real problem crippling Japan is not the wealth gap between rich and poor but the "hope disparity"?a widening gulf between those who see a brighter future ahead and those who do not. In Osaka, Ijiri can relate. His father's generation...
...created in larger-than-life versions to command top dollar. Says Baum: "Above a certain price, the public wants to see evidence of skill, and dishes they do not think they can make at home." Adds Barbara Clifford, the Texas-born chef partner in Manhattan's Yellow Rose Cafe: "My mother made home-fried potatoes swimming in oil. That's a little too down-home...
...pictures, Everybody Comes to Rick's--or Casablanca, as it was soon retitled. Although Ronald Reagan, of all people, was suggested for the part in one studio press release, Bogie was the obvious choice. "This guy Rick is two-parts Hemingway, one-part Scott Fitzgerald, and a dash of cafe Christ," said one screenwriter. Various actresses, including Hedy Lamarr, Michele Morgan and Ann Sheridan, were proposed for the role that Ingrid Bergman played so indelibly well. What may surprise readers in these days of superstar supersalaries is the piddling sums paid the cast. Bogie got the most, $36,667, while...