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Dousing herself with her lady's perfume, Maria--"Mimi" to her employers--assumes entirely the identity of her mistress as Gaston likewise plays the Baron. His own evening an unusual disappointment, the real Baron returns home, assumes the role of the servant, and establishes the framework for the ensuing comedy of affected manners...
...made What's New, a hit album of '30s and '40s classics. After the current eight-week tour, Ronstadt and Riddle will begin recording a second collection of old standards. And this fall Ronstadt will return to the Public Theater in New York City to sing Mimi in an English version of Puccini's La Boheme. What next, Gregorian chant for soprano...
During the 7½ years that Mimi Sheraton served as restaurant critic of the New York Times, she reviewed more than 900 establishments, eating out some 30 to 40 times a month. One year, she recalls, she dined at home only five times: Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day and her husband's birthday. Last fall, seeking a different perspective as well as a smaller dress size, she left the Times. "I wanted to be free to think about food in a greater variety of ways," says Sheraton. "I wanted to travel more and take...
...pose fullface for the camera, to make it harder for restaurateurs to identify her and proffer extraordinary service), will help inform her next book, a New York City restaurant guide to be published early next year. The book, she says, will take "a different angle" from her definitive Mimi Sheraton's The New York Times Guide to New York Restaurants. She is also collaborating with Comedian Alan King on a compendium of memoirs, recipes and restaurant anecdotes called Is Salami-and-Eggs Better Than Sex? The answer to that curious question will be available next November, the book...
...Chow verdict. Henri Millau suggested that the suit was "a publicity stunt," adding: "I guess that in the next few days people will flock to his restaurant and they will no doubt be sadly disappointed by the so-called authentic Chinese cooking." Said New York City Restaurant Critic Mimi Sheraton (who also pans Mr. Chow's): "It was the most outrageous award I've ever heard of. If this decision were upheld, I would feel inhibited in writing reviews in the future." At the very least, it could lead to an intriguing variety of appeals in court. Actors...