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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
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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.
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with booths and another with
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^ 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.
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homecooked southern meals
and the prices are extremely
low,considering all the food
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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,
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the choices.
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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
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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
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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 & *
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 "
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