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...breakfast clubbers like Movie Producer Alan Silverman, a meal of scrambled eggs, toast and coffee at the Polo Lounge is also a chance to catch up on industry gossip. Others say the meal adds an important new extension to the workday. Says Seagram Vice President Mary Cunningham, who had breakfast with Bendix Chairman William Agee at the Helmsley Palace in New York shortly before they announced their engagement: "You are always looking for social situations where you can do business, and breakfast increases those times...
...first time we played, and the next year it was like 15-1," recalled former team Captain Betty Ippolito, who made the trip down from Maine for the weekend. "Last year, when we finally best them, 5-3, it was the biggest upset of the tournament. We were the toast of the banquet that night...
...does. Austin's larcenous achievement serves as the vehicle for a favorite Shepard effect: the symbolic over-abundance of food-stuffs. In Buried Child vegetables from the backyard garden were heaped on the stage in Rubens-esque quantities. True West serves up toast made in the five toasters Austin steals. These masses of toast represent Austin's hostile offering of his own success in his brother's line of work...
John Bottoms and Francois de la Giroday deliver arresting, finely tuned performances. De la Giroday's sardonic antics with the mounds of toast his drunken, bitter humor, and his ability to shift gears--to portray both a self-possessed success and a collapsed failure--are outstanding. Bottoms' stooped, hulking gait and his combination of down-dirty badness and querulous insecurity breathe life into a difficult and confusing character. He recalls Henry Fonda at his most cranky in On Golden Pond in his ornery refusal to admit that he is pleased by something done for him, his obstinate pessimism, his scorn...
...George du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894), set in the bohemian Latin Quarter of Paris, the sinister Svengali hypnotizes a tone-deaf gamine named Trilby and transforms her into an exquisite diva who becomes the toast of all Europe. When Svengali dies, so does Trilby's voice. In a two-hour, made-for-television movie titled Svengali, Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone), 19, plays a rock 'n' roll Trilby smoothed into a Streisand by Peter OToole's latter-day Svengali. Foster is on leave this semester from Yale, where she is a sophomore majoring...