Eating Out in New York: All This World's a Stage

摘要

Audrey Hepburn may have had Breakfast at Tiffany's, but actors in the New York films of today go to restaurants, like the locals they portray. In Manhattan, even intimate events like weddings and birthday parties take place in public restaurants with strangers looking on; privacy disappeared with the telephone booth. Meg Ryan proves this in When Harry Met Sally by faking an orgasm for Billy Crystal, with full sound effects, in the middle of a busy deli. And, without skipping a beat, Olympia Dukakis, seated at the next table, tells her waitress: 'I'll have what she's having'.