blake wrote on Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:45:25 -0500:

>> As a number of you know, the LA Times food critic was "outed"
>> by a new Beverly Hills restaurant by taking her photograph
>> and posting it on the internet, among other things. Pretty
>> damned short sighted for a restaurant that wants to get
>> anywhere in a city like LA, but there you are. I find it hard
>> to believe, however, that the Times' food critic has been
>> able to preserve her anonymity for 15 years in a city
>> like LA. Regardless of making reservations under various
>> names, using others' credit cards, etc., I can't imagine her
>> walking into a restaurant and not having the maitre'd, et al,
>> recognize her and scramble to alert the chef and serving
>> crew.
>>
>> Original article:
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,2330320.story
>>
>> The follow-up article:
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/features/food...,3870239.story
>>
>> I also can't feature a new restaurant in as competitive a
>> market as Beverly Hills, where it is filthy expensive to even
>> *open* a new restaurant, nevermind maintain one, would do
>> such a thing unless the owners' sole purpose was the
>> publicity, which it got in spades. Even if it was only after
>> the buzz the "outing" created, the ill will it also created
>> might trump whatever initial buzz was generated and last a
>> sight longer.
>>
>> Oh, and does "outed" have one "t" or two? <g>
>>
>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

> it seems to me like a bush-league thing to do. what is she -
> some kind of child molester?

> (as far as being a hard grader, i'm reminded of a movie
> reviewer from the now-defunct *washington star*. i don't
> think i ever read a review of his where he actually *liked*
> the movie. as i recall, he had been booted off the sports
> page.)

Didn't Judith Martin (Miss Manners) do that for movies in the Washington
Post when she was shifted unwillingly to the job? How she never got
fired was a mystery to me.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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