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Entertainmi t ? ? ?jilfiL m aH^KI ?ipfjii Faye Runaway, as Joan Craw JIJI >t may By WANDA M. HITE Restaurant Critic P W If you stancj on the corner of Main and Blossom streets, facing West Columbia, and look to your left, you can't help but notice a large blue Knilrlinn If unii rlnt inct a MU11U1I15' 1A JVM 5W JUUV U little closer you will see painted on the side of the building the words "Mayfair Grill." And that is where I H 9 ate lunch yesterday. I had heard about it from numerous classmates and decided to give it a try. It reminded me of Mel's Diner of television fame and I was somewhat hesitant about entering. But once I got inside, I felt like I was home for Sunday Dinner. TViot'o arc turn rnnmc rtno Jl IIV1 V MI V- V VT V7 * UV11IU | U1IV with booths and another with ^ A tables and chairs. A fan in ^ the corner keeps cool air coming in and music in the background adds a homey atmosphere. Clyde Oroni, the owner, is quite courteous and personable to the customers. The waitresses took time to taflk and make sure my partner and I had everything we needed. ^ ^ ivia I I' /vili ixKii.i, oners homecooked southern meals and the prices are extremely low,considering all the food ent nmie Ofll II VHi 11 rford, and her adopted childr rair vi you get. Most entrees are $2.40 and vary during the week. The day my partner and I went, we had our choice of Chuckwagon Steak, Golden Fried Chicken, Veal Parmigiana and One or Two Pork Chops. The only price change was in Two Pork Chops, offered for $3.16, but still a good price. We also got our choice of three vegetables (heaping Dor tions), ranging from mashed potatoes with brown gravy, to fried okra or homemade vegetable soup. Like the entrees, the vegetables offered are also changed each day. Blackeyed peas, sliced watermelon, and potato salad are offered. But it didn't stop there. We were given a bowl of fresh homemade biscuits and muffins with butter. Iced tea is also served and to save you the trouble, a large pitcher is on your table so you don't have to worry about finding a waitress for seconds. OTHER MEALS offered are the Vegetable Plate consisting of .four vegetables, bread, and coffee or tea for only $1.92 Dessert is also available for .55. Pecan Fie, Apple Pie, I flmnn Mnrint/lto Pip nnH Banana Pudding are among the choices. ( HMHHMHnnnHHMMHHBHHBMBMH Dearest' Hftnetor n PlHOVv % s II ; ?^|f? ^ ^ -. \% * J ,*. " \ ^f?9MBfcteJL* Hit' X ' -j--^MBSM<MaBWgHBMfe^^ |lHy^^B||y m. 1 ., jl W&g^m&M*'&':-'2/ *'T^Ta^EL ^vv';-:-vV'vM VIS P ' wm wM . en project an image of familial love in Commie Deares mm If* I IVritare' I III? ??.? Five well known Amer share their skills and ncnirinrt nr?*i f nrc Wai; 1 ' ciopn tug niit^io iivv. m. i JS mM&k^k jass&k. annual University of jgF M PBw Smjsk Writer's Workshop. B fir S & Sponsored by the USC C Studies, the conference w My partner satisfied her George Garrett and Lee S appetite with Chuckwagon as special guesu>. Steak,.Creamy Cole Slaw, Garrett, who has p potato salad, and apple poetry, short stories, ai tic sauce. DesDite her hunger teach a workshop session pains, she could not eat all History." A former writ she was given.The portions Princeton University and well satisfied her needs. written 16 books, among t Being from 'not-around- Fox and The Finished Mai here' (the South) she made . ... nflo Oftflvrrvi ...U? 1? iL the comment that her potato ^un , wuu is u salad was 'almost as good as novels including Fancy hers.' And the tea, despite Mountain Breakdown, is ; the fact that it was Story Award winner. A sweetened, was excellent. professor at Duke Uni /ni # i i rr ii a.1 T Tniirnt*ci(ir nf \lArf h Parnli ^a>ne nnisnea on ine enure uiu?v.aiVw. v?..w., pitcher.) instruct a session on shoi I tried the Pork Chop (one- the USC workshop. I only weigh 80 pounds), Joining Garrett and I mashed potatoes with brown structors will be two Colui gravy, fried okra and the poet who founded the I homemade vegetable soup. William Price Fox, The pork chop was large and residence, will teach arti crispy, just how I like it. The novelist Ben Greer, a forr vegetable soup was excellent & * THE MAYFAIR (irill is M 3p.m. It is within walking distance from campus. You aHHH H??*i can easily satisfy your ap- J ?.SbHhEb petite for a small price. . ,j| Chances are, you will return. ^ The atmosphere is second H43 South Main St. 8 ^ftl I'hnup * 2fU-:t271 1 Hours: M-F 6 a.m.-3 p.m. | Tommy Scott Young wmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmummmmmmm*watmmmmammm f By DOUG BELL FBm Critic "Mommie Dearest," the film version of Christina Crawford's infamous autobiography, is leagues above previous movies that attempted to dramatize the lives of Hollywood stars ("Gable and Lombard," "W.C. Fields and Me"). But then, that isn't saying a whole lot. What this movie has that the others don't is a credible penunucr in uie uue roie. raye uuiiaway L*x:uint;b uoan Crawford; without her, the film would not have been worth making. The facial resemblance is stunning. More im portantly, Dunaway's performance imitation is imaginative and exact : she overacts in the same way Crawford used to, H emphasizing the star's obsessive determinination to shine B and survive. ' As I haven't read the book, I cannot vouch for the faithg fulness of the adaptation. But director Frank Perry and a p. host of screenwriters clearly adopted Christina's viewpoint. If The Joan Crawford they offer is a monster? cruel, selfish, r boozing, and ambitious to the point of derangement? while Christina (played well by Diana Scarwid) is the epitome of blue-eyed innocence. sk I TIIIT 11 M fa1 1 ATIfC t V-wi m/\tV\nt*-XonrrVitar> ralnfinnpUin fw*r\m ? AUIVA IVilUTTO lilt lllV/lllVi AidU^IIlvl 1 ^ICUlUllOllip 11 Will i Christina's adoption to Crawford's death in 1977. The early I episodes are most frightening. In one scene, Crawford goes into hysterics upon finding a wire clothes hanger in Christina's closet. In another scene, Christina's refusal to eat a meal provokes Crawford so severely that she repeatedly places the plate of spoiling food before the child. Scenes like I ulose die 11 uiuizduy 1 ciiiiinaccni ui udwiuiu s idiei niuvitss, particularly 4 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'' In its re-creation of Hollywood's heyday, "Mommie Dearest" is disappointing. The action takes place almost entirely in the formal drawing rooms and gardens of Crawford's mansion. One wishes for glimpse^ of studio ac !tivity, 01 iignts ana unsei ana an tne memoraDuia associatea with that exciting period of movie history. Also, Howard da Silva's interpretation of Louis B. Mayer is benign and bland, never properly suggesting the cold, crafty exploiter he was. nr>nn/ll/u.o .tr. U I ? 4 * * :? TA *?? I il tiicgdiuicas ui iu> anui luuiiungs, muiiuiiit; jjcarebi is uie best film biography of a Hollywood star I've seen. Thanks to Faye Dunaway, it's an engrossing, sometimes astonishing / movie. Take away her performance and the remainder is I- J L J - - -1 araDinaeea. Workshop Scheduled ican authors will USC General Studies faculty, will serve as a techniques with special consultant on novels. Poet Tommy r-19 at the sixth Scott Young will teach the workshop session South Carolina on poetry. Fox is the author of five books, including Allege of General Dixiana Moon and Ruby Red. He also has :il K.inrt nA..nlii.?o ?knn 1 a ir>l ac fnr m Q inr I ill L/l lll? iiuvciioio wuiicil lliuic uiau iw ai utito iui "'"J"' mith to Columbia national magazines. GREER, WHO is now an assistant ublished novels, professor in the USC English Department, les and plays, will has written two novels, Slammer and on "The Novel as llallnu/Aon nnrl ic u/nrlfintf nn a thirH Krvnlr I sr-in-residence at about the super rich. ] USC, Garrett has Young, director of the Kitani Foundation, hem Death of the js ^e author of the poetry collection Black L Blues and Shiny Songs. He has served as poet-in-residence at the Georgia, North ie author of four Carolina and South Carolina art com Strut and Black missions and has been responsible, through! in O. Henry Short Kitani, for bringing a number of outstanding! creative writing cultural attractions to South Carolina. il iversity and the Directed by Franklin Ashley, a member of I na, Ms. Smith will use College of General Studies faculty! *t story writing at an(j a well-known writer in his own right, the! conference begins Nov. 17 at 5:30 p.m. with 4s. Smith as in- registration in the General Studies lobby of Tibia novelists and Carolina Coliseum. j [itani Foundation. Following a reception from 6-7 p.m., USC's writer-in- George Garrett and Lee Smith will talk cle writing, while nhniit 4T>nuhlp-R?rrpllpH Fiftinn " ler member of the Se<f W",W' ^ * George Garret Wiltiam Price Fox [