Intelligence Report: POWER RESTAURANTS

VANITIES

MICHAEL'S

BOMBAY CLUB

GRILL ON THE ALLEY

AGO

ELAINE'S

LOCATION

Midtown Manhattan

Washington, D.C.

Beverly Hills

West Hollywood

Upper East Side, Manhattan

PRIME TIME

Lunch

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Luoth

Late dinner

Dinner

THE CROWD

Literary overlords

The secret government

Agents

Hollywood and Eurotrash

Literary lions, N.Y.C. brass

MAYOR

Sam Cohn

Karl Rove

Jim Wyatt

Robert De Niro

George APlimpton

POWER TABLE

No. I, in front window

Private dining room

Booths along the walls

On the smoking patio

Right-side window

SIBERIA

Glassed-in Garden Room

On the sidewalk

Center tables

Maitre d' adjacent

Back to the left

SIGNATURE DISH

Roasted chicken

Tandoori salmon

Cobb salad

T-bone steak

Veal chop

DECOR

Modern art

Jungle-cruise elegant

Edward Hopper goes Beverly Hills

Melrose warehouse with Tuscan flourishes

Literary bric-a-brac

DRESS CODE

Armani

Jos. A. Bank

DKNY po no 1

Plunging neckline and perpetual tan

Frayed crewneck sweater

HOT DATA

Whose head is next to roll at AOL Time Warner

Daily threat estimate

Thereal weekend grosses

Sunset Room doormaWs ceII.phone number

Phone number of Norman Mailer's orthopedist

PICKUP LINE

"Has anyone ever told you you look like Ken Auletta?"

"1 got the keys to the Undisclosed Location

for the night.

"My table table agent's than your got a agent." better

"Didn't you double for my butt last year?"

"This may be your last chance to get in ^ my memoirs."

GOLDEN AGE

2002

Bush I

Big 80s

1999

1977

CLOSEST POWER HUBS

ICM, William Morris

The White House, K Street lobbyists

CAA, Endeavor, William Morris, UTA

Miramax

George Plimpton's house

MUSE

Liz Smith

Condoleezza Rice

Maitre d' Michael Goddard

Gwyneth Paltrow

Soon-Yi

FAUX PAS

Going straight to your table

Asking Condoleezza Rice to play Happy Birthday"on the piano

Wearing a tie

Tipping co-owner Christopher Walken

Ordering drinks only

NO. I COMPLANIANT

"Charlie Rose is sitting at my table."

"How am I gonna sit through a four-hour intelligence briefing with a belly full of sag poneer?"

N ?av,n9 0v,h to around anymore

Two A.M. closing time

The food