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<\/a>Senator all day brekkie: eggs over easy, bacon, potatoes, beans, challah toast<\/p><\/div>\n
The Senator<\/a>, Philomena<\/a>, BBQ<\/a>, and Dom Hemingway<\/a>. Winners – Senator & Philomena. Second place – Dom; dead last – BBQ.<\/p>\n We set the alarm for 6:45 in the morning and tried to add a film, but just didn’t quite make it. The Senator was a great breakfast in a warren of wooden booths – I got the Senator breakfast and Mark got pancakes, and we just split everything down the middle. After, we wandered around a bit and tried to buy transit passes for the coming week – but our chipless American debit cards wouldn’t work in the machines in the subway stations so we had to find either a station with an attendant, or a convenience store that sold the passes. We found an attendant, and got the passes, eventually.<\/p>\n We decided that Philomena was probably our favorite movie of the fest so far. Judi Dench and Steve Coogan were a great combination.<\/p>\n Dom Hemingway was just a little too over the top gangsters + magic realism; might work in the hand of Elmore Leonard. But it did prove that Jude Law can play a young Michael Caine at his Cockney coarsest with aplomb.<\/p>\n And the BBQ at Lou Dawg’s, although tasty, and the bartender was really attentive, was just not quite the right thing for my old lady digestion, when consumed at 8:30 PM before a movie. I appreciated his frankness – “Between you & me, Lou Dawg lager is PBR”.<\/p>\n