One of the diners sets forth a proposal, and we see it as told: Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a distraught young woman, slender, blond, and travelling light, shows up unexpectedly at the apartment of married New York friends who are in the middle of giving a dinner party.
"Entertaining America" winds up with screenings from "Seinfeld," viewable from the cushy plastic-covered booths of a diner set up outside the galleries (since much of the show took place in a diner).
At a recent panel in Seattle (via fansite Welcome to Twin Peaks), cast members Sherilyn Fenn and Sheryl Lee announced that Badalamenti would return with new music for the score, as well as revealing that there will be 18 episodes in the new series and that Twede's Cafe in North Bend will be restored as the original Double R Diner set.
An example: As the boys in the Barry Levinson movie "Diner," (set in 1959) argued about who was better — Sinatra or Johnny Mathis Mickey Rourkeke, the beautiful young Mickey Rourke, ended the discussion, and the era, by naming "Presley," as in Elvis, as his choice instead.
Stomping and sulking on Keith Mitchell's cozy diner set, the characters grow on you, and you're content to watch them (inevitably) do the right thing.
East of Washington Road, Naked Pizza serves health-conscious pizza made with all-natural, whole food ingredients, and Cheeburger Cheeburger serves burgers, fries, and milkshakes in a classic diner setting.
Priest looks a budgetary step up from its largely diner-set predecessor, and the IMDb credits nearly 300 crew members in the visual effects category alone.
Using technology tested over and over in battle, the company offers meals like lasagna and flame-broiled turkey in styrofoam containers that heat up when the diner sets off a chemical reaction between a jigger of salt water and a slab of iron and magnesium.
And when the noodles are finally gone, the bowl empty of everything but a few oleaginous blobs, each diner sets his bowl back upon the counter, mumbles "Gochiso-sama deshita" — roughly "Thank you for the meal" — pays the 700-yen fee (about $7.85 at 89 yen to the dollar) and wanders back out into the daylight world where Ganko suddenly seems like a hallucination, a Wonderland dream of noodly bliss.
