Ben Stein’s NYT column is called "Everybody’s Business". Today
he uses all of its 1,150 words to eulogize a Hollywood restaurant about which
Citysearch says
that "larger-than-life prices make it a ticket few can afford". He
also manages to drop no fewer than 25 different names ("I renewed a friendship
with Sly [Stallone] there that had lapsed for 30 years"). But really all
you need to know is encapsulated in this:
Some writers and makeup artists and sound men and gaffers and electricians
might lose their homes in this strike… But of all the sorrows, the saddest
I have seen in my 31 years in Los Angeles is the closing of Morton’s.
‘Nuff said.