Word: diner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play Martha Stewart. The portable kitchen weighs only 35 lbs. and yet contains 6 ft. of counter space, a sink, stove space, storage shelves, a paper-towel rack, a set of backgammon and a set of checkers. It all fits in a suitcase-size carrier. At $199 the movable diner is one of the company's best sellers...
James M. Williamson, a longtime patron of the Tasty, expressed concern about the fate of the quirky diner...
...past couple of years, a business exceeding more than half a billion dollars has emerged that the trade calls "eatertainment." Theme restaurants, a combination plate of amusement park, diner, souvenir stand and museum, have become the fastest-growing segment of the restaurant industry, turning up the heat on fast feeders such as McDonald's and the segment known as casual dining, which includes such now ho-hum fern joints as Bennigan's that serve mere food and drink in a relaxed setting. This heady expansion leads to projections that eatertainment will be a $5 billion baby by the turn...
...Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, Tyler visits a Tuscan villa where the regulars rhapsodize over her innocence, her naturalness, her cutiful-beautifulness. In James Mangold's Heavy, she is a waitress at an upstate New York diner, and the cow-size chef gets mooncalf eyes at her approach. These movies are all about looking at Liv. They are votive offerings to a budding star from old connoisseurs and randy swains. When the camera isn't genuflecting before Tyler, it's copping a feel...
...Heavy, Tyler is the siren who leads a sad-sack cook (Pruitt Taylor Vince) to a full realization of the sweet misery of life. His bar-diner, which often looks deserted except for one resident grouse, is the anti-Cheers; it should be called Blahs. Heavy is a mood piece, which means there's not much going on and ain't ever gonna be. The characters shop, eat, sleep, do some world-class moping and, in general, wait for something the hell to happen. And all that happens...