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That world of perfection that i think he came closest to probably was stars. >> michael: stars, i think, was the embodiment of a vision that had been developing over time. very, very different from panisse. >> jeremiah: it reminds me of the first house i ever walked into in merida. well, this will be my sixth house, i think. and you can see it right away, exactly what you would do, because its just telling you what to do. do a couple of renderings, put it on the market. >> john: at some point du...

>> tony: people would pull up and itd be kind of a neighborhood where you would second-guess yourself walking down the street. youd pull up to these doors that had beautiful brass handles, star on them. you couldnt see into the restaurant, but you walked up this stairway and the dining room would be revealed to you with each step you took. people were transported from this kind of dirty, dusty alley up to this incredible dining room that just seemed like you were on another planet all of a sudde...

Street. and then he was all over asia. and -- >> jerry: i honestly expected to see a ferris wheel on the corner, you know, jeremiah-land. >> ken: he was opening all these stars everywhere, you know, while the original stars was probably kind of falling apart while he was on a plane going off to the new stars. >> mike: we saw less and less of him, and that was also a change in, you know, because stars wasnt stars without jeremiah there, not quite. >> tony: you take such a strong personality out o...

Kitchen, all this activity. and everyone could see everybody come in. >> ken: you could see everybody from everywhere. you could see every seat from every seat. >> john: the different elevation in dining areas. it was like a stage. >> martha: high ceilings, white walls, um, bright light, very glamorous. >> mario: 100 yards away, you could smell the magnificent fragrance of the wood-burning stove and the wood-burning pizza oven. >> steven: and you just went, "im going to have a great time now." >...

>> tony: people would pull up and itd be kind of a neighborhood where you would second guess yourself walking down the street. youd pull up to these doors that had beautiful brass handles, star on them. you couldnt see into the restaurant, but you walked up this stairway and the dining room would be revealed to you with each step you took. people were transported from this kind of dirty, dusty alley up to this incredible dining room that just seemed like you were on another planet all of a sudde...

>> mike: but of course, she brought in a large amount of business because if denise was there every night, everybody else had to be there every night. the countess of yugoslavia, baryshnikov. >> james: sophia loren was there, pavarotti was there, all the people in the opera world. >> steven: a lot of the politicians would come over from city hall, the chief of police, and they would be there at 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning having a beer. >> mark: gorbachev. i cooked dinner for gorbachev. >> tony:...

And everyone could see everybody come in. >> ken: you could see everybody from everywhere. you could see every seat from every seat. >> john: the different elevation in dining areas. it was like a stage. >> martha: high ceilings, white walls, um, bright light, very glamorous. >> mario: 100 yards away, you could smell the magnificent fragrance of the wood-burning stove and the wood-burning pizza oven. >> steven: and you just went, "im going to have a great time now." >> mario: stars was a theatri...

>> mike: but of course, she brought in a large amount of business because if denise was there every night, everybody else had to be there every night. the countess of yugoslavia, baryshnikov. >> james: sophia loren was there, pavarotti was there, all the people in the opera world. >> steven: a lot of the politicians would come over from city hall, the chief of police, and they would be there at 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning having a beer. >> mark: gorbachev. i cooked dinner for gorbachev. >> tony:...

Another building down the street. and then he was all over asia. and -- >> jerry: i honestly expected to see a ferris wheel on the corner, you know, jeremiah-land. >> ken: he was opening all these stars everywhere, you know, while the original stars was probably kind of falling apart while he was on a plane going off to the new stars. >> mike: we saw less and less of him, and that was also a change in, you know, because stars wasnt stars without jeremiah there, not quite. >> tony: you take such ...

Probably was stars. >> michael: stars, i think, was the embodiment of a vision that had been developing over time. very, very different from panisse. >> jeremiah: it reminds me of the first house i ever walked into in merida. well, this will be my sixth house, i think. and you can see it right away, exactly what you would do, because its just telling you what to do. do a couple of renderings, put it on the market. >> john: at some point during the early 80s, jeremiah decided he wanted to open a ...