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...gave up being a vaudeville ham to serve steak to the stars; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Chasen became a favorite with audiences as Comedian Joe Cook's dizzy straight man in the '20s and '30s. When vaudeville declined, he opened a six-table chili-and-spare-ribs joint in Beverly Hills. Chasen's show business comrades-among them, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford and W.C. Fields-became loyal patrons and helped build Chasen's into show biz's most glamorous beanery...
...Bird. In his 20s, he had already become a legend. He had given his name to Birdland, and along with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell had founded a whole new jazz idiom called bebop. The beginning came one night while Parker was playing Cherokee in a Manhattan chili house: he reached up and got his line by filching the top notes off the chords. By mingling spontaneous pirouettes of fanciful improvisations with a tune's melody he vastly expanded the freedom of musicians...
...this weather is so bad. They say they had snow over at Harper." Chili beans bubbled on the stove, and the Bible lay in the center of the kitchen table. "I thought when I was tired of working I would move out of Johnson City," she said. "But I can't. I can't leave these people. They are so wonderful...I think Lyndon felt the same...
Culp, who is directing his first feature film, disdains coherence in favor of establishing a seedy L.A. milieu, which he does so well that the frenzied illogic of the narrative is almost forgotten. Chili-dog stands, musty apartments atrophied since the 1920s, labyrinthine ranch houses perched on the edge of cracking cliffs, all give Hickey and Boggs a fine, evocative sense of a seamy city rotting in the sunshine...
...dull libraries that are now so prevalent. A steaming bowl of Eisenhower vegetable soup might warm recollections more quickly than rummaging through the Eisenhower papers in Abilene. How better to catch the flavor of Lyndon Johnson than by munching a deer-foot sausage or supping on hot Pedernales chili? Richard Nixon could be forewarned to start scouring his ancestral cookbooks, if only to avoid being commemorated by cottage cheese with ketchup...