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IV

ouldn't,you know it? ...
Each year at the Excal-
ibur Restaurant's annual
Oscar Night to watch
the Academy Awards on TV and par-
take in the fun festivities, I wear a tux
and then begin feeling a bit out of
place being one of the very, very few.
Owner Marty Wilk, General Man-
ager Victor Dazbaz and others on the
floor always wear tuxes, but heck, they
don't count because Marty, Victor and
their black-tied employees work there.
This year, I said I'd join the crowd
and wear a business suit like all the
rest.
Sure enough, I was in the minority
as guys and gals dressed to kill in all
their finery.
Seems like the Oscar Nights at
Excalibur are getting bigger each year
... The searchlight sweeps the outdoor
sky, red carpet leads to the front door,
large TV screen on the
dance floor, smaller ones
around the room, folks
vying for prizes with bal-
lots (first prize was a trip
for two to Disneyworld
in Orlando, Fla., which
someone won with 100
percent correct), etc..
The meal was all Hol-
lywood ... "Titanic"
appetizer of Ossetra
caviar on "iceberg"
mound of molded
chopped ice ... "The Full
Monty" salad with
watercress and Enoki
mushrooms, English
cucumber, walnuts and
raspberry yogurt dressing
... "As Good As It Gets"
blue crab pasta with
fresh basil and roasted
red peppers ... "Good
Will Hunting" entree
threesome of roasted
duck breast with ginger
demi glace and sundried
cranberries; tenderloin medallion
Wellington; grilled swordfish with
pesto buerre blanc ... and "L.A. Confi-
dential" dessert a la the 1950s with
chocolate truffle fleur de lis and

Grand Marnier sauce.
War II and after that had a lot of
WELL, IT'S FINALLY happened
name entertainment.
... Ron Forman, Bread Basket boss,
"Before she became famous, Barbr=\
a:72z
has taken over the former Checker
Streisand played at the Club 509
Bar-B-Q spot next door on Greenfield
owned by Benny Resh. She was also at
and 10 1/2 Mile in Lincoln
the Caucus Club. Benny's
Shopping Center.
singer and wife, Dorothy
But sorry folks, it won't be
Parker, later went on to
for more room as so many had
become 'Auntie Dee' on
hoped.
television.
Ron will open another oper-
"At the Terrace Room in
ation on the site ... B & B Bar-
the Staffer Hotel, Xavier
B-Q House... strictly a carry-
Cugat, Carmen Cavalier°,
out for soul food, ribs, chick-
Ray Eberle and many others
en, etc.
played on Saturday after-
Meanwhile, Al Winkler has
noons. Dorothy Shay,
D ANNY
opened Bread Basket Deli of
known
as the 'Park Avenue
RA SKIN
Livonia, on the corner of Mid-
Hillbilly,' also played at the
Local Columnist
dlebelt and Plymouth ... It's a
Statler.
former Amy Joy Donut shop
"Mrs. Harry Lefkofsky,
with 25 stools plus carry-out ... Al's
who owned Lefkofsky's Delicatessen
other store, Bread Basket Deli &
with her husband in the Broadway
Bagelry, is on Grand River and Eight
Market, was a permanent guest at the
Mile.
Statler and was helpful in getting Lib-
CONGRATS ;.. To Gladys Baskin,
erace booked at all the other Statler
Hank's mom, in Boca Raton, Fla.,
hotels around the country, and the
with hubby Max ...
Pennsylvania Hotel made famous by
on her 87th birthday
Glenn Miller in a song called 'Penn-
... To Mike hitch
sylvania Six, Five Thousand.'
look-alike Mark
"Speaking of Glenn Miller, he
Hechler and his wife,
appeared along with many other
Rose ... on their 50th
celebrities at the Book Casino in the
anniversary ... To
Book Cadillac Hotel. Remember, I was ---`
Harold Black ... on
a bellhop at the Book Cadillac and the
his 85th birthday ...
Statler. These two hotels were the most
To his granddaughter
prestigious in Detroit at the time. Each
Lauren Wohl ... on
hotel was at opposite ends of Washing-
her 15th birthday
ton Boulevard. They now stand there
April 9 ... To his wife,
as ghosts from a bygone era.
Edie Black, and their
"Washington Boulevard was known
daughter, Debby
as Detroit's Fifth Avenue then. They
Wohl ... on their
will be putting the wrecking ball to
birthdays April 20 ...
both of them shortly. The Tuller Hotel
To Victor Dazbaz,
was demolished several years ago.
general manager at
"While I was preparing this letter, I
Excalibur Restaurant
got a long distance call from Dr. David
... on his 49th birth-
Rappaport in Marina Del Rey, Calif.
day .... To Gwen
He told me his wife now, Audrey
Brown, swell waitress
Gelfan, used to skip school to see
who served us at
Frank Sinatra at the Michigan Theatre.
Excalibur's Oscar
"The Michigan Theatre is now an _2
Night ... on her birth- indoor parking garage."
day ... To Sue
FROM NATION'S Restaurant
Maniloff ... on her
News, March 23, by Paul Frumkin
birthday.
"What goes around comes around.
MAIL DEPT. ... From Harold
"It wasn't so long ago that the
Finegood "In a recent column
death knell was being sounded for
about 'Looking Back,' you overlooked
fine-dining restaurants. In the late
some very good places around World
1980s, dire observations were being