bsharmastl wrote:That said, am I to understand that WC is a STL phenom only?
Blzhrpmd2 wrote:The Benton Park sounds interesting. That's the second recommendation I gotten for it. Hard to argue with a sack of 10.
It has been a few years since I've had it, but Adriana's Italian sausage was really good.
Bastiat wrote:I should also add that their chip selection is matched by no one. They even have "shoestrings".
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TheWayoftheArch wrote:Sooo, on HBO last night I caught a movie starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader set in St. Louis and revolving around Sarandon, an non-nonsense waitress at White Knight, on Locust. Spader plays a young yuppie that she has an affair with.
The title "White Knight." A duality on her place of employ and also the young good looking guy that lets her escape he world.
I watched a good chunk of it, only because I was mesmerized by the shots of places I know, the arch, and the fact that that little crappy buidling is the fulcrum for a movie.
And we all thought they didn't make fims here...
bonwich wrote:Other White Palace tidbits: The yuppie condo scenes were shot in the buildings at the northwest corner of West Pine and Sarah and in the former photo studio appended to the old house on West Pine on SLU's campus that Father Biondi lives in.
The more downscale bar scene was shot in Cousin Hugo's.
Sarandon's house in the film is just north of Manchester in Dogtown.
The final Manhattan-Greenwich Village-y scene was shot on Euclid.
Spader and most of the cast stayed in the Park Plaza during filming, although Sarandon and Tim and their kids rented a house in the CWE.
Jerry Berger wrote:MEMO TO WELCOME WAGON: Actress Susan Sarandon has leased 4450 Westminster Place through Dec. 25, during the local lensing of ''White Palace.'' That's the house next to 4446 Westminster, which was once occupied by T.S. Eliot and now owned by Andrea and John Gardner, veep of McDonnell Douglas. And if you're looking for Sarandon's co-star, James Spader, you might check out one of the units at the shuttered Chase Hotel.
bonwich wrote:Jerry Berger wrote:MEMO TO WELCOME WAGON: Actress Susan Sarandon has leased 4450 Westminster Place through Dec. 25, during the local lensing of ''White Palace.'' That's the house next to 4446 Westminster, which was once occupied by T.S. Eliot and now owned by Andrea and John Gardner, veep of McDonnell Douglas. And if you're looking for Sarandon's co-star, James Spader, you might check out one of the units at the shuttered Chase Hotel.
Jerry actually scored a two-fer in that one; Spader wasn't in the Chase Hotel, but rather in the Park Plaza, which had an independent identity as apartments in those days.
And you're right -- the bar depicted fictionally in the book is Cousin Hugo's, but the shot was done at what was then Dweezle McFrump's.
bonwich wrote:McFrumps = 8658 South Broadway
aka
Rock Island Music Club
Metal's Edge
Desperadoes
and
Bustin' Loose, one of St. Louis' original homes of Jell-O wrestling.
Is anything there now?
The yuppie condo scenes were shot in the buildings at the northwest corner of West Pine and Sarah and in the former photo studio appended to the old house on West Pine on SLU's campus that Father Biondi lives in.
dutchtowner wrote:the meatball from Paul's Pizza in lower Dutchtown
JCity wrote:The yuppie condo scenes were shot in the buildings at the northwest corner of West Pine and Sarah and in the former photo studio appended to the old house on West Pine on SLU's campus that Father Biondi lives in.
Sorry, I think you're wrong. The "yuppie"/Spader lived in a condo in Old Towne Clayton North Central, right next to Taylor Park.
In 1990, the P-D wrote:Richards Bruno is getting to be so good at what he does that they're putting his stuff into the movies.
Bruno, who for many years has been building in-fill housing in the City of St. Louis, can see his handiwork on the big screen when he goes to see ''White Palace'' at the theater. A loft townhouse Bruno built at The Hamptons made the silver screen last fall.
''They filmed one of the sets here,'' Bruno said as we walked through the model, a ''B model loft townhouse'' he built and sold. The present owner had a few customized touches added and the decorating is done in a quite striking black-and-white motif.
The owner is ''a black and white photographer, by profession,'' Bruno said with a grin.
''When they were doing the movie, they looked at three or four places I had built,'' Bruno said. ''This was Heidi's condo. They wanted to be able to shoot in a kitchen that was wide open. At first they turned it down because it was too good. She wasn't supposed to be that well-heeled. But they came back.''
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GETTING THERE
Take the Forest Park Expressway to Sarah Street, go north to West Pine. The development is on the west side of Sarah.
In 1989, the P-D wrote:Make up a detailed fact sheet with your name, address, phone number, physical description and clothing sizes, then staple a picture of yourself to it and send them to White Palace Casting, 3838 West Pine, St. Louis, Mo. 63108.
DeBaliviere wrote:dutchtowner wrote:the meatball from Paul's Pizza in lower Dutchtown
Where's Paul's Pizza? I don't think I've ever heard of it.
dutchtowner wrote:DeBaliviere wrote:dutchtowner wrote:the meatball from Paul's Pizza in lower Dutchtown
Where's Paul's Pizza? I don't think I've ever heard of it.
Paul's Pizza is a very strange business on Virginia just a little north of Iron Barley and on the west side of the street. It is a one-man operation. Paul bakes the pies, works the register and somehow manages to deliver the pizzas as well. And if that wasn't enough to keep him busy, he also is one of those "I buy ugly houses" real-estate brokers and he seems to make calls on properties between orders. It is not a particularly attractive place to dine in (at least one of the three tables usually is littered with his real estate paperwork) but it is worth picking up your pizza to inspect the decades-old news clippings about his restaurant.
This is the ultimate St. Louis style pizza. Provel, of course, and the crust seems about half as thin as Imo's. A few added bonuses: He uses very old pizza ovens (not the conveyer belt kind) and taxes are included in the price of the pie (I hope, for his sake) so the bill always is an even amount.
The meatball sandwich is a whole lot of food for the money. Meatballs are huge and it is smothered in provel. And if you don't like provel, sign up to write prissy food criticism in the RFT or move to Chicago.
TheWayoftheArch wrote:Sooo, on HBO last night I caught a movie starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader set in St. Louis and revolving around Sarandon, an non-nonsense waitress at White Knight, on Locust. Spader plays a young yuppie that she has an affair with.
The title "White Knight." A duality on her place of employ and also the young good looking guy that lets her escape he world.
I watched a good chunk of it, only because I was mesmerized by the shots of places I know, the arch, and the fact that that little crappy buidling is the fulcrum for a movie.
And we all thought they didn't make fims here...
The scenes for the movie were filmed in a new Dierberg's grocery near Olive Boulevard and Ross Avenue in unincorporated west St. Louis County.
It was a brand new store not yet open, said Breck. The parking lot was crowded with recreational vehicles for the actors and a heated tent for the extras, as well as equipment trucks of all kinds. Breck guessed that 100 people were at the store, including Dierberg employees who also worked as extras.
WHEN ''White Palace'' opens, audiences will catch glimpses of St. Louis - glimpses that include the Gateway Arch, the outside of the Fox Theatre and Heffalump's in the Central West End, although everyone is supposed to think the shop is in New York, where the movie ends.
Audiences also will catch glimpses of hundreds of St. Louisans; among them are a handful who had bit parts during the eight weeks of filming. They include: - Glenn Savan as a disgruntled White Palace customer; in real life, he wrote the novel on which the movie is based.
- K.C. Carr, the stripper at the bachelor party. According to local casting scout Carrie Houk, a different stripper had been booked for the part but didn't work out. Carr was summoned at the last minute.
- Robert Bourgeois, one of the friends at the bachelor party. He is a local actor and waiter at Cafe Zoe.
- Lantz Harshbarger, another friend at the bachelor party. He is a student at Webster University.
- Vernon Dudas, as Jimmy the Bartender. He is an insurance adjuster.
- Michael E. Arnett, the country-western singer, in a bar scene filmed at Dweezle McFrump's. Arnett is a singer who lives in Fenton.
- William Oberbeck, an advertising executive who gets doused with hot coffee. Oberbeck died in August of cancer. He was co-owner of Kerr-Oberbeck, a gift and clothing shop in the Central West End.
- John Flack, another advertising executive. He is a local actor.
- Rabbi Joseph Rosenbloom of Temple Emanuel, the rabbi in the wedding scene. Local casting scout Houk said Rosenbloom won the part over six other local rabbis who auditioned.
- Fannie Bell Lebby, a waitress at the White Palace. She is a local actress who has performed in productions at the Black Repertory Theatre and The New Theatre.
- Janet Lofton as a checker at Dierberg's. She holds the same job in real life.
- Maryann Kopperman, a guest in the Thanksgiving scene. She works at Jewish Hospital and attends nursing school. Her husband, Myron, owns Kopperman's in the Central West End.
- Lana Lu Hull plays Betty the server in the Thanksgiving scene. ''She just wandered in off the street and we loved her face,'' said Houk.
- Abby Sullivan, also a server in the same scene. She is a local actress and teaches drama at Washington University.
Many St. Louisans who had bit parts or were extras wound up on the cutting-room floor. Several scenes that had been shot were not used in the final version, among them sequences at the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Metropolitan Square, Ed's Sandwich Shop, the Beverly Ann Dress Shop in Overland and Duff's in the Central West End.
