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When De Niro does make the Hollywood scene, he has a cool, humorous sense of who he is. He enjoys going to the Roxy, L.A.'s top rock hangout, and likes to drop in at On the Rox, the club upstairs that is the last word in Hollywood exclusivity. As he was buzzed on through not long ago, a guest asked if he was a member. "No," said De Niro, "but they let me use the place...
...primary sources are court records and the people on the right side of the law." Even interviews with the good guys can be delicate. Barrett recalls an organized-crime investigator who suggested dinner at a well-known gangster hangout, explaining, "That's the kind of place where people make a very serious effort not to hear what's being said at the next table. It's safer to be deaf...
...insecure enough to see an analyst three times a week. If he meets someone he knows after a session he may stop him on the street to rehash it. His office is on Fifth Avenue, but his favorite headquarters is Elaine's Restaurant, Manhattan's top celebrity hangout. He often winds up his 15-hour days-usually early in the morning-at his fourth-floor walk-up bachelor's pad on Manhattan's East Side with a diet cola and a Stouffer's short-ribs-of-beef dinner. He cooks four at a time...
...buzz words, like "stonewall" and "limited hangout," have not resurfaced-at least not yet. But there is an unmistakable sniff of Watergate wafting over the Hydra-headed investigations of exported South Korean corruption currently under way in Washington. The White House cover-up to protect its guilty is still fresh in everyone's memory. Yet here is the Legislative Branch displaying, at the very least, a marked lack of enthusiasm to get to the bottom of a scandal that could badly tarnish Congress...
...latin to inform the reader that a battery of sakers on the gun deck of a galleass is bombarding a galliot with langrel that has collapsed its topgallants and smashed a few slush lamps. He is just as sure-footed ashore. When Sabatini finishes describing Captain Blood's hangout, the pirate fortress at Tortuga, any attentive reader could build a scale model in his basement, right down to the little green lizards on the breadfruit trees...