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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/02/09

In reply to Giuseppe Cipriani, Hero Liberal
What's a Cipriani? Someone from Cyprus?

And speaking of tennis:

"The Cipriani boasts the only tennis courts and swimming pool in central Venice "

[www.our-hotels.com] #giuseppecipriani
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Tremonius
11/02/09

In reply to Giuseppe Cipriani, Hero Liberal
This reminds me - as what doesn't? - of the moral relativism of Mark Twain. Remember him? He sailed to europe one year, and violated a quarantine to sneak onto the island with some other boys to observe the Pantheon. Returning, he and his henchmen would wander into fig fields to gather what they may. They began to notice shadowy figures behind them on the darkening trail back to the dock. Herders, working as guards for the figfield fiefdom. So Mark and crew hurried, whereupon the herders did likewise, and then the boys broke into a run, and so did the herders, and then the boys cast aside all their store of figs, "Not because we feared the herders, but because we had come to believe that stealing is wrong." #giuseppecipriani
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BettyCrocker
11/02/09

In reply to Giuseppe Cipriani, Hero Liberal
He's cute, for an Old. #giuseppecipriani
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smithhimself
11/02/09

In reply to Giuseppe Cipriani, Hero Liberal
I truly hope that he never comes back. If we're lucky, all the restaurants will be closed and the entire family will be deported.

Downtown Cipriani is the worst restaurant in New York. Loud. Crowded. Terrible service and mediocre food.

The fact that this restaurant is always crowded is proof that a certain segment of the city's wealthy are foolish, tasteless wankers. #giuseppecipriani
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BettyCrocker
11/02/09

@smithhimself: The food is overpriced. I actually work in the building that houses the (awesome) Midtown catering space, and it has a little attached deli that is quite the ripoff.

The catering space gets used all the time - it used to be a bank, and it's very dramatic. Maybe someone else can take it over and provide better food. #giuseppecipriani
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smithhimself
11/02/09

@BettyCrocker: Overpriced and awful.

The worst restaurants that tourists go to are an unholy three:

Tavern on The Green (although maybe that will change with new ownership)

The Rainbow Room (Once, I found a staple in my rice at this place and the waiter accused me of placing it there)

And, of course, Mamma Leone's. Eating from a can of cat food will give you a better experience.
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BookishLookish
11/02/09

@smithhimself: *whispers name of favorite steakhouse well off the beaten path* #giuseppecipriani
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BettyCrocker
11/02/09

@smithhimself: I had a good steak once at Tavern, but I was never tempted to go back. #giuseppecipriani
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Rod Townsend
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
It has closed before and will reopen yet again.

(And yes, the food is mediocre. Perhaps it just tastes bland at that altitude.)
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wattznext
01/04/09

@Rod Townsend: Then how do you explain Denver's Citron Bistro?
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Understater
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
What's next, The Russian Tea Room?
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registered
01/04/09

@Understater: Windows on the World, I hear.
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Carol Gardens
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
I don't know a single New Yorker who has ever actually eaten dinner there. As long as there is a ballroom and a bar and no one wrecks the interior, that is all that matters. (Better $20 for a drink than $200 for a crappy dinner.) And yes, the Ciprianis are crooks who are so intertwined with the city's power brokers that they somehow have gotten away with it so far.
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misslinda
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
I took my hillbilly inlaws to the bar for drinks one sunny afternoon about six or seven years ago cause it was cold out and the line to get to the top of the Empire State Building as too long for me to bother with. Everything was going well, the drinks were excellent, the view was stunning...until the bill showed up. They thought it was the funniest thing they had ever seen--$20 for a drink! What kind of idiot would pay $20 for a drink? I paid, and they kept the receipt which they still to this day have pinned to their refrigerator as an example of why New Yorkers are stupid.
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mzito
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
I can't wait for the Rainbow Room to go out of business, or at least get taken over by someone who cares about running a quality establishment. I don't mind paying over the odds for drinks someplace with that kind of history or old new york glamour, and I don't even mind waiting in line sometimes to do it. But when the staff is patronizing, slow, and downright offensively rude, it's time to go. Good riddance.
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BookishLookish
01/04/09

@mzito: When the Baums ran it, it was a class joint all the way. The Ciprianis are wretched people.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
does it smell like old people?
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Weegee's bored
01/04/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: It smells like Manhattans and Chesterfields.
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mmstk101
01/04/09

@Weegee's bored: Classy old people, then?
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BookishLookish
01/04/09

@Weegee's bored: Beloved third-hand smoke.
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Weegee's bored
01/04/09

@BookishLookish: I forgot to mention Chanel #5 and the scent of dead animal pelts.
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PandoraSpocks
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
The photos are lovely, but the last time I was there in '08, the place looked very weathered -- and not in a good way.
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kitekatze
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
I'm depressed.... so many of the places I've been looking forward to checking out while I'm in new York later this year are closed or about to be closed.
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steveholtsmother
01/04/09

@kitekatze: Sssh! Don't admit you're not from New York! People will think you are sitting at home in sweats eating Pork Rind flavored Hot Pockets and watching re-runs of the Drew Carrey show! (Remember, keep your head up when you're walking and never, EVER stop on the sidewalk to take photos! That's the tourist giveaway!)
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Weegee's bored
01/04/09

@steveholtsmother: Nobody from New York can afford to live here anymore.
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noxiousbeast
01/04/09

@steveholtsmother: These pork rinds are delicious. Iowa flavored - tastes like deep-fried snickers! (And yes, we do fry snickers. And sell them. To innocent children and not-so-innocent adults).
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
01/04/09

@steveholtsmother: one of these days, we need a gawker poll of expatriated NYCers. maybe too depressing.
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BookishLookish
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
The Ciprianis are crooks and should be run out of town on a rail.
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Pope John Peeps II
01/04/09

@BookishLookish: Nothing says "fading romance" like the last real Italian family crooks leaving the country as their restaurant shuts down.

Crime used to be fascinating and weird and wear suits, whatever happened to those guys?
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Weegee's bored
01/04/09

@Pope John Peeps II: They've all retreated back to Bensonhurst.
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Thatcornellguy
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
But where will young Dalton and HoMann kids have their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs????? OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
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BookishLookish
01/04/09

@Thatcornellguy: Jealous?
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
01/04/09

In reply to A Look Back at the Rainbow Room's Faded Romance
holy crap - Diane Von Furstenberg was HOT !!! who knew?
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
01/04/09

@Monsignor Xtravagante D'ouchestache: Old people knew.
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Helennellieforsythe
01/04/09

@Monsignor Xtravagante D'ouchestache: My thoughts exactly. That picture makes my vagina quiver.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
01/04/09

@Helennellieforsythe: Is that what cupid is wearing this season? A vagina quiver?
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ShanghaiLil
01/04/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Ok, it's time to pull out one of my favorite stories again. I've told this one about 8,000 times, including at least one and probably two occasions right here on Gawker, but really, I'm hoping that it will become a perenneal favorite, offering NBC viewers the same anticipation and excitement of an annual television event as classics like IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN, or RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, the latter of which has run continuously every Christmas since it first aired during the victory celebration which followed the defeat of Acre in the Third Crusade in 1191.

Anyway, a friend of mine, extravagantly handsome, first came to New York as a model in 1978. Of course a looker such as he was immediately sought after as the must-have accessory at the better parties of the season. That summer, he was taken to Fire Island for the first time, and after a few minutes spent admiring the beauty of that wild and barren sand bar, he insists that he spent the remainder of the afternoon fleeing through High Tea right there in the main harbour as an extremely inebriated Diane Von Furstenburg chased him up and down and here and there, all the while shrieking, "What's the matter? Why won't you fuck Prince Egon?"(*)

I For those of you kiddies who couldn't possibly remember, Prince Egon was a leading fashion designer, well-known homosexual, and Heir to the House of Furstenburg, a tiny principality based mostly in southern Baden-Württemberg. Egon died in 2004, but his widow Diane, famous for creating the legendary wrap dress that changed entirely the face of fashion in the lat '70s, has since gone on to even greater success in the field of Marrying Homosexuals with Lots and Lots of Money by wedding billionaire Media Mogul Barry Diller with whom she lives today in New York City.
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Weegee's bored
01/04/09

@ShanghaiLil: Wait. This happened at the Tea Dance at the Pines in 1978? OMG!

I must have been on a later boat. Damn. It surely was my sort of scene back then.
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Lysergic Asset
01/04/09

@ShanghaiLil: Great story. I think you should change your screen name to Why_Won't_You_Fuck_Prince_Egon?
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hatey
01/04/09

@ShanghaiLil: Best. Story. Ever.
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BookishLookish
01/04/09

@ShanghaiLil: DVF was a social climber then as now, but you know what? Ladya has game. Look at that sly puss. You can almost see her thinking, How can I work this jerkoff for some bread?

DVF: Original Gangsta Bitch!

BTW, Lil, funny story.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
01/04/09

@Lysergic Asset: or Chased By A Rabid Furstenberg
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
01/05/09

@ShanghaiLil: {giggle-guffaw}
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