2002:06:19:16:14:38 43 ANGELES TIMES CALENDAR WEEKEND lentil hash topped with caramel- ized onions. Or green beans in to- mato sauce, white beans in tomato sauce on rice or homemade French fries. The lightest sides are mixed veg- etables with mushrooms and an Is- raeli salad of diced tomatoes and cucumbers. The potatoes are a Wednesday special. featured dish is tender baked lamb, served with its natural juices.
often sold out by dinnertime. (Call early and have an order set aside.) ACornish hen stuffed with beef and rice is so tender it falls apart. The chicken schnitzel can be a lit- tle dry, but grilled meats, basted with garlic, paprika and other seasonings, are very good. Agrill combination includes beef and chicken kebabs, a ground beef kebab and a rather bony, fatty lamb chop. The kebabs also come in pita sandwiches.
shawarma is marinated turkey. Try it on hummus or in a pita sandwich. Other homey, well- cooked, satisfying main dishes in- clude stuffed peppers, meatballs, baked chicken legs and rib steak. An appetizer salad platter on the next table was so handsome I had to have it too. The big platter holds five cold dishes: hummus, tahineh sauce, baba ghannouj, creamy red cabbage and Israeli salad, plus six golden brown falafel balls.
The fa- lafel is green inside, because the garbanzo bean mixture is ground with parsley. Matzo ball and chicken soups are a safe bet, but spicy Yemenite beef soup is a standout. Curiously, it resembles curries tasted in south Indian restaurants overseas. At home, I would serve it over rice. Haifa has two desserts, both par- eve (kosher with either meat or dairy meals).
Malabiis enchant- ingly exotic. an unsweetened, water-based cornstarch pudding unmolded onto a plate, sur- rounded with rose syrup and sprinkled with chopped walnuts and fine shreds of coconut. The delicate mousse cake is a mound of kosher vanilla pudding combined with whipped nondairy cream, set on a slim layer of choco- late. covered with chocolate frosting and chocolate syrup, but the main sensation is of airy light- ness, almost like a marshmallow. The only problem at Haifa is the service.
The waiters are pleasant and helpful, but there enough of them on busy nights, when tables fill as soon as they empty. Haifa Restaurant, 8717 W. Pico Los Angeles. (310) 550-2704. Open 11 a.m.
to 9:30 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays. No alcohol.
Street parking. Major credit cards. Dinner for two, food only, $20.50 to $36. What to Get: Appetizer salads with falafel, Yemenite soup, baked lamb, stuffed baked potato, stuffed cabbage, grilled meats, shawarma tur- key on hummus, malabi, mousse cake. Dinners start with a parade of fill up on the relishes, though, because the main courses are huge.
Restaurant News By JESSICA STRAND SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Is Catch: Hans will reopen in Marina del Rey as Catch Seafood early next month. remodeled it in a Cape-Cod- meets-Venice style and hired Frank Spingman, former executive chef of the Flying Fish in Seattle. enwagner describes the new menu as interesting without being fussy, with dishes such as striped bass with Mission fig-fennel saladand scallop pot Catch Seafood Restaurant and Bar, 13455 Maxella Marina del Rey. (310) 822-8979. Mojitos on Melrose: Xiomara Ardo- lina, who popularized the Mojito co*cktail at in Pasa- dena, is planning to open a restau- rant in September named for Cien- fuegos, the city where her mother was born.
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But he longs for his lost love from college days, a beautiful woman (Chenoa Max- well), who not believing he would amount to anything, ditched him for a financier(Blair Underwood). Now that the mogul has become anearby neighbor, she realizes her mistake. Class, money, unrequited passion, the treacherousness of the American Dream and fate all that concerned Fitzgerald emerges here in this assured, sophisticated and stylish film that plays rap numbers against Bill Conti time- lessly elegant score. For his irresistible documentary (Sunset 5, Monday at 7:30 p.m.; DGA, Wednesday at 5 p.m.), filmmaker Jeff Blitz followed eight kids in theirearly teens from widely differing backgrounds and locales through their regional competitions all the way to Washington, D.C., for the National Spell- ing Bee. It easy to want all eight to win, especially youngsters such as Angela, daughter of a Mexican cow- boy who entered the country il- legally and who doesn speak Eng- lish after 20 years in the U.S.
It heartwarming to see so many first- generation U.S. children partici- pating in so American a tradition and discovering a sense of community with other kids as bright and focused as they are. (866) FilmFest. The Warhol on Screen festival continues Friday at 7 p.m. at the Pacific Design Center with and Inner (1965).
Clearly, Warhol perceived a discrepancy between the physical beauty of his doomed superstar Edie Sedgwick and her inner conflict when he de- cided to videotape her talking, then film her facing her previously taped image, which we see on a TV set on a table behind her. When this 66-minute segment is presented in split screen, reducing the running time by half, with the latter part projected on the left side of the screen, we get an even more intensified sense of Sedgwick fragmented personality as she is confronted with her own image and words. What a radiant natural screen presence was Sedgwick, whose perfect diction reveals her aristo- cratic ancestry, and whose daz- zling smile and charming person- ality recall the young Elizabeth Taylor. And what a Hollywood screen test Warhol footage could have been. Indeed, the shimmer- ing image of Sedgwick on the video screen recalls that famous clip of the younger Gloria Swanson from Queen Kelly quoted in Sunset Boulevard.
Unintentionally or not, Outer and Inner Space, which is screen- ing as part of the Museum of Con- temporary Art Andy Warhol Retrospective, has a muddied soundtrack, but in a way that is sadly appropriate. As Sedgwick prattles on, enough of her talk can be heard to suggest that she was trying to make sense of her life. But neither she nor others listened to her closely enough to save her from the drugs that left her person- ality vacant but her beauty intact, and which finally claimed her life in 1971 at age 28. Much has been written about the implications for the possibil- ities of mixed media posed by Outer and Inner Space, but surely it is more important as a portrait of a beautiful woman with the touching vulnerability of a Ma- rilyn Monroe. Also screening Friday is the 66- minute Life of Juanita Cas- (1965), in which the family of Fidel Castro, played by Factory regulars, poses for a formal group portrait while playwright Ronald Tavel, who would become a fre- quent Warhol collaborator, gives the various characters lines to re- cite.
The central figure is Fidel sister Juanita, played by pioneer under- ground filmmaker Marie Menken, who is not happy with her brother Communist dictates. Fidel, his brother Raul and Che Guevara are all played by women, none of whom is in drag. The effect is amusingly subversive even though the film seems interminable. There more of Edie Segwick in Wednesday 7 p.m. screening.
In the 33-minute (1965), Sedgwick seems lively and alert in a way nearly unique in a Warhol film as she participates in a dinner party with several friends at her favorite restaurant, Avven- tura. In the 66-minute (1965), a vivacious Sedgwick easily dominates a Factory scene in which Tavel attempts to give lines to Factoryites for eight distinct playlets, a most likely deliberate exercise in futility that quickly lapses into a food-throwing free- for-all. (213) 621-1745. Revenge of the Japanese Out- law Masters, the American Cin- ematheque fourth annual survey of Japan goriest, edgiest filmmak- ers, runs Friday through Wednes- day at the Egyptian. (See story, page 34.) (323) 466-FILM.
Note: Josef von Sternberg clas- sic groundbreaking gangster pic- ture which won Ben Hecht the first Oscar for best original story, stars Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft and Larry Semon. It screens at the Si- lent Movie Theatre Friday and Sat- urday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 1 and 4 p.m. (323) 655-2520. Screening: Film Follows Spelling Bee Champs Continued from Page17.
