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Article: DINING BEAT : REVISITING MA MAISON.(Food)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 1999
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Byline: With Larry Lipson
Those halcyon days and nights of the fabled, unlisted Ma Maison restaurant on Melrose Avenue are recaptured by its founder and ex-owner Patrick Terrail in his new book, ``A Taste of Hollywood - The Story of Ma Maison'' (Lebhar-Friedman Books; $29.95).
This is where Wolfgang Puck cooked, where Orson Welles constantly sat and sipped champagne, where the late movie producer David Begelman induced Ma Maison's co-owner Pierre Groleau to cash a forged $10,000 check made out to actor Cliff Robertson in 1977, where the biggest movie deals were made regularly (many by Begelman), and where Terrail, who became a celebrity in his own right, ...