Word: kitsched
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...slabs of bacon sputter on the grill while movie moguls gossip about the wife of a top studio executive and a national politician. The interior is pure beachfront eclectic, crammed with mismatched furniture, bullhorns, rubber snakes, paintings of World War II flying aces, antique mirrors, numberless pieces of nautical kitsch. It's not only the campy charm, the soulful coffee or the cheap and un-California-ishly cholesterol-rich menu that keeps this dive jumping among the surfer and industry-big-shot set. The real attraction is 72-year-old proprietor Bill Fischler, who lords over his young cook Alfredo...
...wingspan) swoops over story conferences from its perch on the ceiling. Souvenirs sent from all over the world by friends and colleagues line the bookshelves. "Some people would say I have an office in lieu of a personality," says Howard. "It's my secret garden of kitsch...
...even a painting of her on view -- only her ancestors. The burden falls on Queen Victoria, whose portrait en famille by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (who was to her and Prince Albert what Edwin Landseer was to their many dogs) must be the single most sentimental piece of kitsch in the palace and accordingly gets more attention from the visitor stream than any Rubens or Rembrandt. Now and again some palace functionary, neatly tailored and with a face like a silver teapot, glides through the crowd; and police murmur discreetly into cellular intercoms. But otherwise it's like being shepherded...
...worldwide bash revives Mr. Music with kitsch and concerts...
...this week, the late Lenny's 75th is being observed with both a solemnity and a sense of kitsch -- a mixture of concerts and coffee mugs -- that devotees of the King would appreciate. There are performances to his memory in places as disparate as Argentina, the Czech Republic -- Slovakia, India, Britain, Japan and the U.S. -- so many that the Leonard Bernstein Society has issued a calendar of events to keep fans abreast of all the action. In anticipation of the festivities, Sony Classical has been releasing over the past year what it modestly bills as the Royal Edition of Bernstein...