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...able to command lower purchasing prices from suppliers, squeezed Hlavácek's profits by selling at big discounts. So Hlavácek, now 51 and employing 10, tried to counter the only way he could: better customer service. He converted part of his shop to a stand-up diner, and broadened his selection of meats, salads and ready-made meals...
...horrified to find out he's not an elf. He goes to Manhattan ostensibly to meet his biological father but really to fulfill the point of the movie: getting himself overly excited about everything else he finds there. He tries to impress a date by taking her to a diner that advertises the WORLD'S BEST CUP OF COFFEE, waves back at people hailing taxis and receives each advertising flyer as if it were a gift. And, since it's a Christmas movie, he brings his dad's broken family together and falls in love with a department-store...
...Hampshire last week, Joe Lieberman aired his first television ad of the campaign, and it is an odd one. He's sitting in a diner, speaking directly to the camera--and he announces that he voted for the President's $87 billion funding request for Iraq, even though it was probably too much money. "That's the price we're paying because George Bush antagonized our allies and had no plan to win the peace," he says. "But we had to make a choice. I didn't duck it. I didn't play politics ... Leadership means doing what's right...
...very involved. Get them more information about the issues and ways they can get involved. I am very proud to have a Harvard sophomore working as an intern in my campaign... I will not open an all-night diner, but would support an application for a license for someone else to run one in the middle of Harvard Square...
HUGH: I admire Barry Levinson and films like Diner, where everyone's interrupting all the time. The BBC school of filmmaking is "No, love, you can't interrupt. You've got to wait until they finish speaking...