May 10, 2004

WILL EVERYBODY GO? (From OJ)

As Time Goes By.... (Jenny McKeel, 5/8/04)

It was bound to happen. At long last, Rick's Café is open for business in Casablanca, Morocco. Former U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur Kathy Kriger opened its doors in the white city March 1, after lining up $1 million in funds from American and Moroccan investors to jump-start the real-life Rick's Café. Kriger studied Casablanca extensively and tried to replicate details of the fictitious café in her establishment, which, of course, boasts a piano player, a full dinner menu (that runs $30 a head) and lunch offerings. But no gambling. Says Kriger: "If an American woman here could do something like this all by herself, that alone would say a lot about what sort of country Morocco is and how tolerant its people are."
Unless the police get into a nightly shootout with a criminal on whom the owner has a weird, homoerotic fixation, it just won't be the same.

Posted by David Cohen at May 10, 2004 1:48 PM
Comments

"Rick, I am shocked--shocked!--to learn that there is no gambling on these premises."

Posted by: Mike Morley at May 10, 2004 2:14 PM

Ms. Kriger obviously has a lot of pluck, but will she be able to make France see clearly?

Posted by: Peter B at May 10, 2004 3:35 PM

Rick's CAFE AMERICAIN. Not Rick's Cafe.

And I don't remember Bogie having a weird homoerotic obsession over Peter Lorre.

Posted by: Chris Durnell at May 10, 2004 6:11 PM

"They grab Ugarte and she walks in. Well, that's the way it goes. One in, one out."

Please read the entire site before posting comments.

(On rereading, I see that I missed the tone of lighthearted railery at which I was aiming. )

Posted by: David Cohen at May 10, 2004 6:36 PM

Unless the police get into a nightly shootout with a criminal on whom the owner has a weird, homoerotic fixation, it just won't be the same.

On the other hand, given the current global political conditions, escaping from Paris right now probably isn't such a bad idea...

Posted by: John at May 10, 2004 6:48 PM

"I bet they're asleep in New York. I'll bet they're asleep all over America."

Posted by: Gideon at May 10, 2004 8:59 PM

Well the anti-semites are running France.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 12, 2004 1:19 AM
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