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...officers who congregate at their "sub-station" in front of the Tastee diner, around the corner from where Kalomymus performs, say they haven't changed their policy toward street entertainment, and most seemed amused, if not overjoyed, by the burgeoning crowds. "I guess anyone with a guitar can come down and make a few bucks these days," one policeman acknowledges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Can Put Me Out On the Street | 8/14/1981 | See Source »

...husband runs the general store in Little House on the Prairie, reneges on an agreement to buy honey from children. In the series Alice, the son of the program's star urges her to work somewhere else because of the low wages paid by Mel, owner of the diner where she works as a waitress. Shirley, a black former cab driver who was the wise and friendly heroine of One in a Million, inherited a conglomerate, but she was counterpointed against another executive who was pompous, stiff and stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crooks, Conmen and Clowns | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...drawn into L.A.'s vortex out of sheer statis. As James Cain conceived him in the 1934 novel. Chambers is a sardonic son of a bitch with no past to speak of, and no future worth mentioning. On his way to the city, Chambers drops off at a roadside diner to scam a meal off the owner. The owner is a sleazy, belching Horatio Algier-type from Greece named Nick Papadakis. Chambers wants nothing to do with him until suddenly he spots Papadakis's wife, Cora. As Cain wrote...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Knock, Knock | 4/11/1981 | See Source »

...verdict capped a five-year legal battle that began when the Enquirer claimed that Burnett had been "boisterous" at a Washington, D.C., restaurant called the Rive Gauche. The gossipy weekly reported that she "had a loud argument with another diner, Henry Kissinger," spilled a glass of wine on a second patron, then tried to share her chocolate souffle with everyone in the place. Burnett did not deny that she dined at the restaurant that night, spoke to Kissinger and had "two, maybe three" glasses of wine. But, she testified, "They portrayed me as drunk." The Enquirer maintained that its information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Enquirer Belted | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Burnett's suit arises out of a 1976 Enquirer item. "At a Washington restaurant," it said, "a boisterous Carol Burnett had a loud argument with another diner, Henry Kissinger. Then she traipsed around the place offering everyone a bit of her dessert" and "accidently knocked a glass of wine over one diner and started giggling instead of apologizing." Burnett demanded and got a retraction, in which the Enquirer admitted that the "events did not occur." Unsatisfied, she compared the Enquirer to "a hit-and-run driver who, when you're in the hospital, sends you a bouquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Five-Year Legal Toothache | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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