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Behind the restaurant's success is its inventive chef-owner, Jean Banchet, 41. Stocky, with brown curly hair and square beard, he looks like a scaled-down version of Luciano Pavarotti and has the artistic temperament to match. Banchet was trained in the great restaurants of France, including that of Paul Bocuse, the high priest of la nouvelle cuisine. He commands his array of convection ovens, cannibal-size stockpots and giant food processors with the same authority that Sir Georg Solti displays when conducting the Chicago Symphony. "It's like an orchestra," Banchet explains, "where every piece must...
...Umpire Strikes Back, Luciano...
DIED. Frank ("Three Fingers") Coppola, 82, multimillionaire Mafia capo who was linked to murder, prostitution, gambling and drugs; of a stroke; in Aprilia, near Rome. Once a partner of "Lucky" Luciano in Detroit, the Sicilian-born Mafioso was deported as an illegal alien in 1948. In Italy he became a don of international drug trafficking. Coppola fought his deportation from the U.S., insisting that he was actually a "nice guy." U.S. Senator John McClellan disagreed, however, saying: "Even though he only has three fingers, they are involved in everything...
...EVEN SO, he thankfully gives us a little substance to sink our teeth into. Luciano claims he's a basically shy man who loses his inhibitions when he gets on the field. It's an unusual idea, to lose your self-consciousness only in front of thousands of people, but hidden somewhere among the confessed botched calls, and hints at being overwhelmed, that impression of insecurity seeps through...
...Luciano's moments of candidness are not the plays on sympathy you might typically expect from an umpire: "Oh, this is such a lonely job. Everybody hates you." For Luciano, it was a great job, and almost everybody liked him. Subtly, he just wants to let you know that at times he feels like he's always playing in a ball park a little bigger than himself...