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...Ritz, a comedy set in a gay bathhouse, he took over the Four Seasons Restaurant and had the band perform from the pool. For Lucky Lady, a romantic adventure about the Prohibition era, Zarem turned the "21" Club into a 1920s speakeasy and invited 650 first-nighters to feast. The party cost 20th Century-Fox $25,000, but Zarem wasn't there to raise a glass. One night earlier he had slipped on the steps to his apartment and broken his leg in five places...
...decided to go wassailing and celebrate his middle age with a Middle Ages party. He asked 667 of his friends (including Bella Abzug, Tammy Grimes and Norman Mailer) to "dress magnificantly -and medievally" and join him at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a feast. The menu included gyngere (gingered carp) and blancmange (spiced chicken in almond cream), all to be eaten only with fingers; potables were mead and hippocras (spiced wine). As the banquet's lord of the manor, the host was outfitted in ermine-trimmed cape and ducal crown. The price...
...sick of irrelevant things on the sports page? Well, tough darts, pal. Why don't you unglue that Morrison & Boyd from your hand for a minute and feast your peepers on the most pointless test of knowledge you're probably ever going to face here...
Dowries are as old as the country itself. In rural Greece and its islands, nubile maidens are decked out on feast days in necklaces, bracelets and headdresses of old gold coins as well as silver and heirloom jewelry, the better to lure would-be suitors. In Epirus in northern Greece, a bride goes to her wedding on horseback, carrying jewels in a casket; in Crete, the dowry often follows her on a mule train. In Athens, a monthly newspaper called Arranged Marriage provides a kind of form chart of the financial attractions available in the marketplace of love. (Sample entry...
...home. More often, they like to invite a few friends (among them: Murdoch Executives Richard Sarazen and George Viles and, until now, Clay Felker) to dine at a tony restaurant like Le Madrigal. Out-of-town visitors are taken for a Kong's-eye view of Manhattan and a feast at the top of the World Trade Center, and Rupert sometimes takes Anna for a quiet lobster dinner at The Palm restaurant. "I'm a bit dull and humorless, not the sort of person who makes social friends easily," Murdoch contends. "This sounds corny, but my best friend...