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Latest in the new alcoholic beverages to hit our restaurant-cocktail scene is, of all things, white whisky. Nemed Frost 8/80, the Brown-Forman’s 80 proof is sure to make a hit in today’s market where the trend seems to be for lighter drier whiskies and scotches. Something new, too, in mixed drinks is the fabulous success story of the Harvey Wallbanger. (If you don’t know what it is, you’re missing the scene, diners ’n doers!) It’s a luscious combination of vodka, orange juice, and Galliano, The whole thing began in Newport where an on-the-way-home skier, named Harvey, would order up this special mix and when he’d go down the room, before leaving the bar, he’d briskly bang on the wall — leading, of course, to the bartender renaming him Harvey Wallbanger! * * * A good word, I trust, to all you loving folk who take Mom out on Mother’s Day. This year, the holiday falls on May 9th. Please, in behalf of not only yourselves, but your favorite restaurant, check out, in advance, whether or not your choice is open, what hours they will be serving, and what are the cinners prices. It is also wise and thoughtful not only to make reservations, BUT TO “KEEP THE FAITH!” In other words, don’t make a reservation for 7 P.M. and keep the restaurateur holding your table a half hour. It’s not fair or courteous to the people in the industry who have to work extra-hard that day to make yours memorable, and easy. Summer is fast moving in on us so Bob Lee, genial owner-host of Ho Toy’s Cantonese restaurant, 4630 Van Nuys Blvd., Sherman Oaks, asks us to remind Turn to Page 8 If you can find us, youdl love us. BENEATH THE Coldwell Banker Building AT Union Bank Plaza SEPULVEDA & VENTURA Telephone 783-3782 ■ MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN — Once upon a time, 42 very talented musicians were rounded up by a sort of pied piper named Leon Russell, who was very adept at arranging, composing and singing. He also played a variety of instruments. Russell summoned the musicians to back up an unusual rock singer who was called Joe Cocker. He asked them to stay with Joe through a tedious concert tour of the "pleasure palaces of America" . . . from Fillmore East to the Santa Monica Civic. A filmed account of Joe and Leon and their 42 Mad Dogs and Englishmen on tour is out now for all to see, in widest screen and vivid colored images, with intensely accurate sound. Joe Cocker is featured at his spastic, screaming finest. Most of his best songs are in the film, with the conspicuous absence of "Cry Me a River", the concert version of which happens to be one of Cocker's best-selling records. The back-up singers and musicians, who lived happily together throughout the cross-country tour, went their merry ways when their last song was sung. Leon the Piper found himself in great demand on his own, and Joe the Star, with aching throat, settled back for a long Winter's nap. ■ LAWRENCE OF ARABIA — It's been nearly 10 years since this beautiful work by David Lean won its many Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture, and it stands up extremely well this second time around. The p'anoramas of desert color, the outstanding cinematography, all the fine performances by Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn . . . what a movie they make! Based on T. E. Lawrence's conquests in Arabia, with keen probes into Lawrence the man as well as Lawrence the soldier. ■ WATERLOO — A feeble 1971 attempt to show another soldier, Napoleon, at war in France. Thousands of movie extras run around European locations fighting each other, looking quite bored by it all. Either they tired of doing the exact same thing for the entire flick or they saw the rushes of Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer and Orson Welles. "Waterloo' should meet its. ■ PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW - There's a fitting word for the talents of actors Rock Hudson and Roddy McDowali, actress Angie Dickinson and director Roger Vadim: limited. But out of this very limited movie about a high school counselor who has a knack for loving his coeds and leaving them (dead), rises an interesting new talent, John David Carson as a typical teenaged boy with typical teenaged problems. Carons's performance isn't all typical, however, and with proper direction, he may well be another Beau Bridges. ON STAGE Whoever dubbed Los Angeles the City of the Stars must have envisioned our stage scene this month: KATHARINE HEPBURN in her L. A. stage debut, singing and dancing yet, as the late Coco Chanel in "Coco" ... at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on the Civic Light Opera series. CAROL BURNETT and GEORGE KENNEDY both in their first local board outings in Neil Simon's super-funny trilogy "Plaza Suite" . . . May 6-29 at the Huntington Hartford. JAMES EARL JONES, renowned for his great performance in "The Great White Hope", as Shakespeare's "Othello" with an all-white cast... at the Mark Taper Forum. HENRY FONDA was so impressed with the new play, "The Trial of A. Lincoln", he chose to do the title role (the play is a contemporary mock trial with Lincoln vs. the descendant of a freed slave) . . . closing May 1 at the Huntington Hartford. Gourmet Circuit-5