Forest Whitaker Gets Apology From NY Deli

[Barrister]

I think I'd raise hell with anybody that didn't recognize I was Forest Whitaker.  For Christ's sake, the brother's one of the most recognizable people in Hollywood, what with that lazy eye and all.  But that's New York sometimes.

OTOH, if you didn't immediately recognize him, you might think he looked like a crazy homeless guy since... he looks like Forest Whitaker.

Well, it is New York.  Sorta reminds me of that short-lived Michael Moore show years ago, where they did a segment that had a well dressed Yaphet Kotto trying to hail a cab in New York, and all the foreign-born cabbies passing him by to pick up a white guy that did time in four different prisons a hundred feet past him.  Even with signs he was holding that said "Yaphet Kotto" and then "Yaphet Kotto, Famous Actor", they'd still pass him to pick up the white convict instead.

I remember that bit. 'Twas funny.

[CountDeMoney]

Inside the deli:

Not exactly "Mort's Deli & Corned Beef, Est. 1947" on East Houston, now is it?  Looks like a place you'd see a celebrity picking up something to knosh.

[Eddie Teach]

What would a cabbie want to do with a two-bit island dictator like Kananga?

[CountDeMoney]

Why were you watching a Michael Moore show?

They were hilarious.  Short run unfortunately.  He then went on to make the docucomedies you love to hate.  I think  Roger and Me was the only one he had made before the TV show.

Oh yeah, TV Nation was an absolute trip.  However, that sort of scathing social commentary didn't translate well on broadcast TV.

[garbon]

Inside the deli:

Not exactly "Mort's Deli & Corned Beef, Est. 1947" on East Houston, now is it?  Looks like a place you'd see a celebrity picking up something to knosh.

For the most part East Houston is pretty okay.

[CountDeMoney]

For the most part East Houston is pretty okay.

My point wass, it looks a bit swankier and upscale than your traditional lower east side neighborhood family-run deli.  But I haven't been to the lower east side for a while.

[Admiral Yi]

My point wass, it looks a bit swankier and upscale than your traditional lower east side neighborhood family-run deli.  But I haven't been to the lower east side for a while.

Did you miss the whole Alphabet City gentrfication thing?

[CountDeMoney]

Did you miss the whole Alphabet City gentrfication thing?

I heard there are no Irishmen in Hell's Kitchen anymore, and all the Jews in Brighton Beach have been displaced by filthy Cossacks.

[The Minsky Moment]

Well, it is New York.  Sorta reminds me of that short-lived Michael Moore show years ago, where they did a segment that had a well dressed Yaphet Kotto trying to hail a cab in New York, and all the foreign-born cabbies passing him by to pick up a white guy that did time in four different prisons a hundred feet past him.  Even with signs he was holding that said "Yaphet Kotto" and then "Yaphet Kotto, Famous Actor", they'd still pass him to pick up the white convict instead.

Maybe they just don't like Jews? 

[katmai]

Who is forest Whitaker

[Ed Anger]

They all look alike.

[DGuller]

Did you miss the whole Alphabet City gentrfication thing?

I heard there are no Irishmen in Hell's Kitchen anymore, and all the Jews in Brighton Beach have been displaced by filthy Cossacks.

Those are filthy Jewish Cossacks.

[Malthus]

Man I would take one look, see it was Idi Amin, and let him take whatever he wanted.

I'd re-think that position.

Don't you know what Idi Amin wanted on occasion for a snack? 

[Eddie Teach]

Whitaker reminds me of William Shatner with that start/stop delivery of his.

[DGuller]

Man I would take one look, see it was Idi Amin, and let him take whatever he wanted.

I'd re-think that position.