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^? I I Entertainm * Mon AR 1 tdfl * "7 P ^7:- - Faye Dunaway, as Joan Crav .. iwoy Just By WANDA M. HITE Restaurant Critic 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 building. If you get just a little closer you will see painted on the side of the building the words "Mayfair Grill." And that is where I A 1 I. L 1 T I 1 gp v aie luncn yesieruay. i nau 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. There are two rooms, one with booths and another with ? tables and chairs. A fan in ^ thp rnrnpr kf?f?ns rool air coming in and music in the background adds a homey atmosphere. Clyde Oroni, the owner, is quite courteous and personable to the customers. Th(? waitresses took time to talk and make sure my partner and I had everything we needed. A #? MAYFAIK GRILL offers homecooked southern meals and the prices are extremely low, considering all the food ent nmie leal A ffmk. ' \ : vford, and her adopted childr & Ttvir vi _ Lifce i you get. Most entrees are $2.40 and vary during the week. The day my partner and I went, we had our choice of Chuck wagon Steak, Golden Fried Chicken. Veal Par migiana 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 vegetaDies (neaping portions), 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 _ I a. ?1 1* ~ !l t hdoui imuiiig a waitress iur 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 Pie, Apple Pie, Lemon Meringue Pie and Banana Pudding are among the choices. Dearest' A M nuiidici en project an image of familial love in 'Mommie Dearest/ miIIa I Mfrafarc' \ I III? ?.?w Five well known America share their skills and te fg| aspiring writers Nov. 17-11 ?S I annua^ University of S< By ? Ml Aj| I Writer's Workshop. fli 8LJSr B flf n I Sponsored by the USC Coll ' - v ' 1 I QtuHicc tho r>r?nforonr>n \i/ill My partner satisfied her George Garrett and Lee Smi appetite with Chuckwagon as special guests. o? ? i- ??. /"*~i ~ ci??, riarrnf f aiho hac nilh Olt.cllS., UCdlliy \jU1C Olt* W, u""vvvt """ f potato" salad, and apple poetry, short stories, articles sauce. Despite her hunger teach a workshop session on pains, she could not eat all History.'' A former writershe was given.The portions Princeton University and UJ well satisfied her needs. written 16 books, among the Being from 'not-around- Fox and The Finished Man. here' (the South) she made i.i 4 it?i i IWC SMITH vi;hr? ic fho uie cuiimiem uitu nci puutiu i<riui kjitai a ma , ttiiv au viav salad was 'almost as good as novels including Fancy St hers.' And the tea, despite Mountain Breakdown, is an the fact that it was Story Award winner. A ci (lino a\zaa11am i nrnffhisnr at Hiikp IJnivp awcciciicu, was CAvciicni. t" "? (She finished off the entire University of North Carolina pitcher.) instruct a session on short i I tried the Pork Chop (one- the USC workshop. I only weigh 80 pounds), Joining Garrett and Ms mashed potatoes with brown structors will be two Columb gravy, fried okra and the poet who founded the Kit homemade vegetable soup. William Price Fox, U! The pork chop was large and residence, will teach articK crispy, just how I like it. The novelist Ben Greer, a formei vegetable soup was excellent j| * ^^1|| and I will probably go back BSlllHlHKiM^ for a lot more of it during winter. ijl open Monday through PriHnv frnm fi n m until 3p.m. It is within walking distance from campus. You can easily satisfy your ap petite for a small price. ^ fi Chances are, you will return. lilt; duiiuapiit'it* is acvuuu best to going home. IsC? 343 South Main St. l|ii Phone: 254-3271 ? Hours: M-F 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Tommy Scott Young iiwimi?linn ww ii !?iwi?MiiiiBHii 111 ii 111 i urn nun 1111 mini ii i By DOUG BELL Him 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," 4tW.C. Fields and Me ). urn men, mat isn t saying a wnoie lot. What this movie has that the others don't is a credible performer in the title role. Faye Dunaway becomes Joan Crawford; without her, the film would not have been worth making. The facial resemblance is stunning. More imnortantlv. Dunawav's nprformanpp imitation is ima^inativp and exact: she overacts in the same way Crawford used to, emphasizing the star's obsessive determinination to shine and survive. As I haven't read the book, I cannot vouch for the faithfulness of the adaptation. But director Frank Perry and a 1 i u i i i a. i ni a >_ _ a iiusl ui screen writers cieariy auopieu v^nrisuna s viewpoint. The Joan Crawford they offer is a monster? cruel, selfish, boozing, and ambitious to the point of derangement? while PhriQtinn fnlavpH u/oll Kv niana ic tho onitnmo nf blue-eyed innocence. THE FILM follows the mother-daughter relationship from Christina's adoption to Crawford's death in 1977. The early episodes are most frightening. In one scene, Crawford goes u..?i ?: ? r:?i; _ ...!? -i-ii iiuu nysiciics upun iiiiumg a wire ciomes nanger 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 these are ironieallv reminiscent of Crawford's later mnvips particularly "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 glimpses of studio ac tivity, of lights and tinsel and all the memorabilia associated [with that exciting period of movie history. Also, Howard da iSilva's interpretation of Louis B. Mayer is benign and bland, never properly suggesting the cold, crafty exploiter he was. i ' Regardless of its shortcomings, "Mommie Dearest" is the 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 drab indeed. Workshop Scheduled _ in authors will USC General Studies faculty, will serve as a chniques with special consultant on novels. Poet Tommy ) at the sixth Scott Young will teach the workshop session >uth Carolina on poetry. Fox is the author of five books, including ege of General Dixiana Moon and Ruby Red. He also has bring novelists written more than 100 articles for major th to Columbia national magazines. GREER, WHO is now an assistant lished nOVelS, nrnfoccnt* in tho UQf T-Tnrflich Hunarlmant in HIV WUV. Ullgnail ^vpuiunviiij and plays, will has written two novels, Slammer andl "The Novel as Halloween, and is working on a third book! in-residence at about the super rich. j| JC, Garrett has Young, director of the Kitani Foundation,! m Death of the js the author of the poetry collection Black | Blues and Shiny Songs. He has poet-in-residence at the Georgia, NorthI author of four Carolina and South Carolina art com-| rut ana tsiack missions and has been responsible, through O. Henry Short Kitani, for bringing a number of outstanding eative writing cultural attractions to South Carolina. rsity and the Directed by Franklin Ashley, a member of , Ms. Smith will use College of General Studies faculty ;tory writing at an(j a weH-known writer in his own right, the conference begins Nov. 17 at 5:30 p.m. with Smith as in- registration in the General Studies lobby of ia nnvplists and ^ ? _ n.i: Carolina museum. mi Foundation. Following a reception from 6-7 p. .. SC's writer-in- George Garrett and Lee Smith will ; writing, while about "Double-Barrelled Fiction. member of the w ? IliSiri^* SP^K^HI wv?.6v wimam Krice f-ox |