Ann Lemons Pollack
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All About Steve
Zany movie comedies are a major gamble. On too many occasions, the humor does not work for enough people, or maybe the director’s sense of humor is different from the audience, or the comedian/actor does not connect. "All About Steve" may be a shallow story, with television disaster coverage enough of a comedy all by
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World’s Greatest Dad
When Robin Williams tries to be funny, he’s a delight. When Robin Williams tried to be serious, he’s a travesty. He overacts, he gets maudlin, he tries to squeeze out tears and succeeds only in becoming funny-looking. And when he teams with comedian-turned-director Bobcat Goldthwait, as in "World’s Greatest Dad," which opens today, they create
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Sugo’s Spaghetteria
Every neighborhood, from St. Louis to Naples, deserves a little family-run Italian restaurant where it’s easy to grab a plate of pasta and relieve Mom of the cooking chores. Yes, even Frontenac, and that’s what the del Pietro family now provides. Located in a new strip on the north side of Clayton Road a little
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Honors for Annie Gunn’s
Sante Magazine for restaurant professionals has announced its 2009 Restaurant Awards. In the category of Traditional Culinary Hospitality, the regional winner was Annie Gunn's in Chesterfield for outstanding achievement in culinary service and hospitality. The big winners were for Culinary Hospitality, Fair Hill Inn of Elkton, MD; for Wine Hospitality, PRIMA of Walnut Creek, CA,; and
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Notice anything new? Just over to the right, at the top of the column, there's now a button to subscribe to St. Louis Eats. We can be added to the list of blogs you regularly receive. We've had a number of requests for this, and finally figured out how to do it. (Pie crust: Easy.
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This Week’s Wine, September 1, 2009
Want to win a medal for the wine you just made on your back porch? Wait until next year and enter it in the annual Missouri wine contest-your odds are very much better than at your favorite race track. After all, the state of Missouri’s wine competition ended recently, with the grape and wine program
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LiLuMa
A desire for a rather late dinner-after 10 p.m., late by most St. Louis standards-took us to the Central West End and, following our occasional habit of going where a parking place pops up, we went to a spot we hadn’t visited for a while. LiLuMa has settled into the southeast corner of Euclid and
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Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
Gertrude Berg was truly an amazing woman. She wrote and performed, as Molly Goldberg, in 12,000 episodes of one of radio’s first serials, which went on the air in 1929, a week after the market crash. She made the transition to television in the well-known New York minute, earning the first Best Actress Emmy ever
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Play The Game
Did I miss something? Did I pull a Rip Van Winkle and are we now in the 1970s or 80s, and in the run-up to the television season? Probably not, but I could swear I saw a pilot the other day. It was called "Play the Game," and it stars Andy Griffith, and Doris Roberts
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Taking Woodstock
Looking backward is a wonderful way to spend time. Surrounded by fond memories that cast a golden haze, everything looks so much better. Reality gets lost in reminiscence, just as it does in "Taking Woodstock," opening today and painting the famous festival in kind and lovely colors – with only a couple of exceptions. After