Word: hostesse
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...food onstage is sumptuous and real, from the thimble-size beef tartare amuse-bouche to the spiced Moroccan lamb with couscous--pronounced, as the Martha Stewart-style hostess is careful to note, "coush-coush." The dinner guests are an array of gabby intellectuals loosely modeled on real-life intellectuals--a Christopher Hitchens-type British lefty, a Tom Clancy-like novelist with pro-war views, a Middle East expert who recalls the late Edward Said. They sit around a long oval table, with a chandelier listing overhead and helicopters whirring periodically, ominously, offstage. After heated debates on everything from Palestinian violence...
...cause of all this carnage is gaijin hubris?the belief, embraced by foolish foreigners, that one can get away with anything in Japan. Jessica Romano, a blond-bombshell nightclub hostess from Chicago, and Chris Ryan, a Floridian slacker and small-time drug pusher, have a particularly bad case. And who can blame them? Jessica spends her nights tending to infantile businessmen at a posh, Osaka club. Chris, a nobody back home, finds himself treated in Japan "like he was Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt"?after two months he has already bedded a dozen girls. So when Jessica hatches a scheme...
Clarkson gravitated toward him by nature and by duty. She'd just been hired as a hostess in the VIP area, and she was also a nonstop networker. "She was hyper--30 decibels loud, 90 miles a minute, always trying to get something going," says ex-boyfriend Robert Hall. "Lana wanted to be 'in the scene' so she could meet someone to help her along." Her website exhibits photos of her with soap-opera actors as well as with older stars like Kirk Douglas and Paul Newman. But her screen credits (Barbarian Queen) were not up to that level. Friends...
...with a laid-back filet steak and a good bottle of red wine should look elsewhere. (Grill 23 in Back Bay, in fact.) An evening at UpStairs on the Square is an extravaganza and you will not be allowed to forget it. En route to your table, a helpful hostess shows you the entire restaurant—isn’t the location of the wine cellar the business of the restaurant’s staff, not its customers?—and senior staff, including co-owner Mary-Catherine Deibel, work the room throughout dinner to check on your...
...venture and he is eager to impress. He should trust his remarkable skill and know that one piece of perfectly prepared lamb serves him better than three. But generosity runs in the family. After a tour of the kitchen, Marjorie Maws, Tony’s mother and the current hostess, offered her satiated customers a loaf of bread or two. But everyone had already had more than enough to eat—thanks...