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...Francisco, where, after I paid him $725, he sat me down in a tiny school desk in a room with an ON AIR sign and a wall full of 8-by-10 glossies of all his students, two of whom were posing with puppets. Leiberman has a salt-and-pepper ponytail and a vanity license plate that reads BE FUNNYR, and counts Heidi Fleiss among his clients. It used to be so much easier to meet Heidi Fleiss...
...strongly crossover affair: Maryland crab and chorizo pozole served with summer vegetables, pumpkin seed-crusted bison with poblano whipped potato, fava bean and chanterelle ragout and apple chipotle sauce, salads of gold and red tomatoes and greens, followed by mango and coconut ice cream dome, peaches, raspberries, red chili pepper sauce and tequila sabayon. Hey, who needs Tex-Mex when you're eating chili pepper sauce with the ice cream...
...surprise that the best of the three upcoming movie star efforts is the one most distanced from real life. From the Beatles to David Bowie to the Sex Pistols to Eminem, pop has long been as much about theater as music. Pop stars assume fictional personalities (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Ziggy Stardust, Johnny Rotten, Slim Shady) and audiences laugh or boo or scream at both the character and the real performer. When the multitudes lend their ears and eyes to Russell Crowe as Maximus the Gladiator, the same fusion of real star and imaginary hero takes place...
...After travelers have exhausted their film and are herded onto their air-conditioned buses, they are driven to Cochin's second most famous landmark: the synagogue, set amid the blue-shuttered pepper warehouses in the neighborhood known as Jew Town. There, on the synagogue's floor, may be another clue to Zheng He's visits: Guangzhou-made porcelain tiles, several centuries old. The synagogue is the legacy of a Jewish presence in Kerala dating back to A.D. 70. But it's not much to look at, just an ordinary house on an ordinary street. Built in 1568, it now caters...
...open-air nighttime eateries on either corner of Soi Phadungdao (a.k.a. Soi Texas) at Yaowaraj in Chinatown, he recommends Rut & Luk on the northwest corner for its "aggressively seasoned" sauce. The restaurant's specialties include tiny mollusks grilled in their shells and whole fish baked in foil with black pepper and garlic. Those looking for something similarly substantial during the day should follow the lunchtime crowds to the nondescript Som Tam Polo restaurant, on the left side of Soi Polo en route to the Royal Bangkok Polo Club. Aficionados come for the fried chicken smothered in crispy, fried garlic. Also...