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Baskin Robbins probably needs less introduction than its fancier counterparts. As it proudly boasts, it has more than 2600 outlets nationwide. Still, simplicity has its own charm. Sometimes a burger at a greasy diner satisfies the palate more aptly than does nouvelle cuisine at a black tie eaterie...
...giddy clash between the Forbidden City and Disneyland, in which virtually everything is either pink or purple -- unless it's gold. There are pink acoustic-tile ceilings, pink slot machines, pink Louis XV chairs in the reception area. There is a pink motorcycle parked in the '50s diner called Rock and Rolls, and there are pink chandeliers in Scheherazade, the restaurant overlooking the baccarat pit. (The Scheherazade is conveniently located so that gamblers below can order whatever they fancy and then gulp down dinner without taking their eyes off the tables...
...film is the tale of a vicious crook (Michael Gambon) who dines nightly at a posh restaurant with his gang and his luscious, abused wife (Helen Mirren). Her pleasures are furtive but sweet: between courses she tiptoes out of his sight and has lovely sex with another diner (Alan Howard). When the thief discovers them, there is hell to pay. At the end, she exacts a more infernal price from her husband...
...longer an insignificant diner, it dominates the empty streets. Through the gathering gloom, its greasy siren call brings in the faithful: hordes of people whose only bond is a common craving for a nocturnal hamburger...
...middling turn out to be rich, it follows that people you think of as working class are going to be middle class. Imagine a construction worker making the national average wage for his trade of $12.15/hour [still 1987 figures]. His wife works as a waitress in a diner, averaging $6/hour in wages and tips. If he gets two Saturdays of weekend overtime during the year at time and a half [i.e., 16 hours of extra work in the year], then the two of them as a household will be better off than 60 percent of all the households...