On Page Six today (OK Symposia is still a gossip columnist at heart) an "item"about how the Esquire food critic John Mariani has questionable journalistic ethics. We remember him and the plump Mrs. at an AIWF event in Chicago --demanding, haughty, and very newyorkaise. The word always gets out about bad behavior.

Harold Pinter won a Nobel for literature. If you like the theater (so passe, so 19th century) he is the best!