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...rattlesnake. Comedy is in short supply, but Mike Nichols is directing The Memorandum, a French farce about a determined bachelor and the girl who upsets his ordered life. Neil Simon's The Last of the Red Hot Lovers brings three women into the life of a paunchy seafood restaurateur (James Coco). After six hits in a row, the tantalizing question about Simon is: Can he ever write a flop...
...fatally wounded in the liberation of Paris, to be held at the Invalides, the French national shrine that was its customary site. For a time, while the U.S. tried to keep relations between the two countries from getting worse, American tourism in France fell off, and an occasional U.S. restaurateur made news by dumping his supply of French wines into the gutter...
Born in New Bedford when it was still a whaling port, he was the youngest of four sons of a fuel dealer. The family moved to New York when he was about 23, and an older brother turned restaurateur helped send him through art school. Ryder lived in Greenwich Village and later in a West Side rooming house, where he slept huddled beneath piles of worn-out overcoats on a floor that was heaped to a height of two feet with yellowing newspapers, empty cans, cheese rinds and mice months dead in the traps he had set for them. Troubled...
Please Order. Why all the preposterous euphemism? One reason is the inarticulate waiter. Until the early 1960s, he knew food almost as well as the maitre d' and used his knowledge to good effect. If the restaurateur wanted to push calf's liver one day, he simply told his men, and they went among the tables and sold calf's liver. But now, "the biggest and most persistent problem in the industry is the dearth of good, experienced waiters," says Joe Baum, vice president of Manhattan's Restaurant Associates Industries, Inc. (Four Seasons, La Fonda...
...Shakespeare. "The funny, far-out menu is a must these days," states Manhattan Restaurateur Shelly Fireman. "The majority of people who dine out are bored with each other and need something to break down the barriers. A way-out menu gives them something to talk about." Alas, the wit is insipid. Along with the "martini-bopper's special," Fireman's own Tin Lizzie restaurant revels in marginalia: "Sit down in our barber chair and enjoy the last living 5? shoeshine, done with real champagne." Minneapolis' Cork & Fork follows each listing with an entry like "Lionel Barrymore...