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...cinema mobster, says he never felt quite at home with his tough-guy image. That famous grapefruit-in-the-face scene with Mae Clarke in The Public Enemy (1931), he complains, followed him for years: "Invariably, whenever I went into a restaurant there was always some wag having the waiter bring me a tray of grapefruit. It got to be awfully tiresome." So which of his 62 films did he enjoy the most? Yankee Doodle Dandy, in which he played the Broadway music maker George M. Cohan. Says Jimmy, now a gentleman farmer in New York...
Diners could have swung a baseball bat in Sardi's last week and never hit a waiter-or another customer. Broadway's most celebrated restaurant, like many of its competitors, was nearly empty. More than half of its staff was laid off. After ten days of negotiations with the League of New York Theaters and Producers over a new contract, the American Federation of Musicians Local 802 had called the theater musicians out on strike. The timing was metronomic. As Broadway was gearing up for what promised to be its biggest season in ten years, nine musicals went...
...dazed and wounded poured out onto the street facing Hyde Park. "I saw a woman with both legs blown off below the knee," said a waiter as he sat dumbfounded on the curb. "There was blood and black smoke everywhere." The explosion was heard all over Mayfair, the heart of fashionable London, and ambulances sped to the hotel. "One minute everyone was walking about normally," said Sally Mordant, a passerby. "The next it was complete chaos...
...tightly as the skin on a peach. Yves Saint Laurent, couture's most influential designer, has also rediscovered the slim look, with cool, understated dresses and near severe tailored pants and jackets. At Dior, Marc Bohan showed below-the-knee skirts topped by waist-length confections he calls "waiter's jackets" -and most women doubtless will have to wait a long time to afford...
...devotee of P.G. Wodehouse, may I say that of all the many failures to achieve a pastiche of the style of the Master, this effort of Mr. Kanfer's must take the jolly old biscuit. The idea of Jeeves as a club waiter serving "gin stengahs" (whatever they may be) is lamentable. For the rest, your reviewer has unfortunately let his anti-limey prejudices get the better of him, and his cliches and mixed metaphors are too dire for comment...