PrintHBO Documentary on Le Cirque Debuts December 29
Restaurant closings don't seem like a big deal anymore, but on New Year's Eve in 2004, when iconic New York restaurant Le Cirque closed its doors, it very much was. The 78-minute documentary Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven follows the restaurant's father Sirio Maccioni, his wife, and three sons from the 2004 closing in the Palace hotel, to the grand re-opening in the Bloomberg building two years later.
"Sirio Maccioni pioneered a new style of dining in the 1980s, combining four-star food with the celebrity-charged ambience usually found in night clubs. Today, the Maccioni sons are trying to apply the same formula to a younger generation of celebrities with different tastes."
Of course, it wouldn't be a documentary without moments of conflict and poignant revelation. Plus, there are some big-name cameos: Tony Bennett, Mayor Bloomberg, Henry Kissinger, Bill Cosby, and Martha Stewart. Watch Monday, December 28 at 8 p.m.
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6 Comments:
Can't wait! This looks so good!
factandfancy at 6:23PM on 12/27/08
nice to see the rich and famous recreate themselves like all of have done in our lives.... can't wait to see how graceful they are at it.....
pooch at 12:31AM on 12/28/08
best parts were watching the Maccioni family eat at mcdonald's and celebrating country's 3 stars with Zakarian, which obviously preceded the faield DOH inspection and the sudden decision to change Country to Country Steak.
WinedAndDined at 12:21PM on 12/30/08
i also loved them all sitting around the dining room table after a home-cooked italian dinner with a bottle of 7-Up smack dab in the middle.
bionicgrrrl at 4:48PM on 12/30/08
Watching this right now. Loving it. Mauro and his mom are enjoying M
Susquehanna at 8:35PM on 01/28/09
. . . eh, nevermind. I'm watching. Bravo to HBO for airing a food-related program closer to Truth and Beauty than Food Network ever has.
Susquehanna at 8:42PM on 01/28/09