When the Lumière brothers screened one of their first moving pictures – The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station – at the Eden theatre at the close of the 19th century, it was said that some of those present were so shocked by the life-like images that they leapt from their seats in terror to flee the oncoming steam locomotive.
She looks around the 1950s diner. “I love the booths, I love the atmosphere, and…” she smiles, pointing at portraits of stacks of salt beef and rye, “I love the pictures of the sandwiches.” It’s a surprise, perhaps, that such Hollywood royalty can sit at a booth in an unassuming deli without anyone bothering her.
Scandinavia’s butter crisis is spreading. First Sweden ran into supply problems, in part blamed on a television chef urging everyone to use butter.