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...dozen phone conversations a day, usually at least one each with Deaver and Press Secretary Sheila Tate. She must oversee White House Chef Henry Haller and his helpers, as well as her personal staff of 24. Among those two dozen are six top aides, who generally meet with her every week as a group: Chief of Staff James Rosebush, Tate, Social Secretary Gahl Hodges, Personal Assistant Elaine Crispen, Projects Director Ann Wrobleski and Marty Coyne, director of her advance team...
Other personalities are a little more adventuresome: the sedate Dick Cavett appears as a circus acrobat, Liv Ulmann becomes a, Erte' print, Jean Marsh strips down to a mega-clcavaged chef, and Chita Rivera reincarnates as Jean Harlow. Every one of them wearing red shoes and synopsized by an National Enquirer cutline. Two particularly obnoxious examples...
Masataka Kobayashi was a curious mix of cultures. He was a Japanese chef who specialized in exquisite French dishes at some of America's finest restaurants. The son of a Tokyo food dealer, he went to Switzerland at age 16 to learn the art of French cuisine. Years later in New York, Kobayashi ("Masa" to his friends) transformed Le Plaisir into one of the city's most prestigious restaurants. In 1981 he became master chef at the Auberge du Soleil in California's Napa Valley. Two years later, he opened Masa's in San Francisco...
...work at Masa's. He had suffered head injuries and was discovered in a pool of blood. The contents of his wallet were scattered on the floor, the front door was unbolted, and a rear window was ajar. Nevertheless, homicide investigators declined to say that the chef was a victim of an attempted burglary. Said Bill Cunin, maítre d' and general manager of Kobayashi's restaurant: "There was no one who was overtly anti-Masa or even upset with Masa...
After two hours or so of talk, the 75-year-old visitor will be escorted through the Rose Garden to the Family Dining Room. There will be some chilled Stolichnaya vodka from Mother Russia to wash down Chesapeake blue crabs out of Chef Henry Haller's imaginative kitchen. Old Grom can demolish succulent rolled veal, served on Lyndon Johnson's china and set off with a California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage...