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INMAN SQUARE IS RAPIDLY becoming an ethnic roto-sampler, with restaurant offerings ranging from the queasy combination of "Pizza and Seafood" to more fashionably exotic offerings like Thai and Korean. The recent Southbound yuppie trend has also swept through Inman Square, depositing yet another Cajun place in its spicy wake. But amidst these rising ethnic stars is a less media-glutted food group. The savory and homey seafood smorgasbord of Portuguese food, which is not the sub-division of Spanish or Mexican many people assume it is, can be found at the Casa Portugal...
...kicky and eccentric as Jonathan Demme's inverted thriller (starring Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith), which it accompanies. Hearing these ten tunes is like checking into a padded cell inside a Wurlitzer. Listen to David Byrne's lyric for his salsa-inflected opening song, Loco de Amor ("Like a pizza in the rain/ . . . No one wants to take you home/ But I love you just the same"), there is no doubt that this album is a passport to alien territory. The music -- which includes Jerry Harrison's sinister Man with a Gun, the roof-raising African rouser High Life...
...Harvard students escape the humorous wrath of Jerry. It seems he spent an afternoon running about the Yard, telling book-toting students, "I know you have to work, but I thought I'd just let you know that I'm going to get some pizza." Jerry boasted, "I'm proud that I don't know what the Treaty of Versailles...
...guts to spare. His first effort, crude, untutored, won an Oscar. Okay, it's inconsequential, a tiny splash in that shark-infested pond called Show Business, but it was something. A start. A beginning. And now, after years of hard work, he's hit the big time--Domino's Pizza commericials...
Until then, it's pizza, pizza and more pizza...