Nate ‘n Al’s Server Gloria Leon Celebrates Birthday, Retirement at Quarantunes Special Send-Off Chris Gardner Nate n Al’s All-Star Server
Gloria Leon has taken off her Nate ‘n Al’s name tag for the last time.
The all-star server spent more than 41 years waiting tables inside the iconic Beverly Hills deli, and the regulars who came to love her everyone from studio heads and agency partners to actors and producers cast her in other roles. To them, Leon was family: a surrogate mom, auntie or grandmother, and, for better or worse, a confidante unafraid to say what she really felt about a recent film or TV show. She easily rattled off names of kids, grandkids and cousins, remembered anniversaries and birthdays, and was often invited to customers’ weddings, premieres, bar mitzvahs and graduations. She even accompanied longtime patron Larry King to the Democratic National Convention and to Utah for charity baseball games.
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Even Before Stay-at-Home Orders Were Lifted, Hollywood Crews Were Getting Back to Work
According to The Hollywood Reporter, more than a dozen L.A. productions are filming or will begin filming in the coming weeks
While most of Los Angeles is trepidatiously assessing the implications of regional stay-at-home orders being lifted on January 25, the move hasn’t presented much of a change to film and TV casts and crews, who are currently working on more than a dozen productions in L.A. or will be starting to next month. And, according to
The Hollywood Reporter, they could have gotten back on the job right after New Years, if they hadn’t volunteered to extend their holiday hiatus to mid-January at the request of health and entertainment industry officials.
For the record:
8:26 AM, Jan. 26, 2021An earlier version of this newsletter said the “widespread” risk tier was red. It is purple.
We’re starting off the week with some
big news in California: Gov. Gavin Newsom has canceled the state’s regional COVID-19 stay-at-home order. All counties will return to the familiar colored tier system that assigns local risk levels based on case numbers and rates of positive coronavirus test results. Most will now fall under the purple “widespread” risk tier, which allows hair salons to offer limited services indoors and restaurants to serve diners outdoors.
The changes will immediately
Outdoor dining to reopen in L.A. County as state stay-at-home order is lifted
Jan. 26, 2021 at 6:00 am
With Governor Newsom rescinding state stay-at-home orders on Monday, L.A. County officials announced that outdoor dining and personal care services will reopen.
The restriction rollbacks come amidst the promising news that the statewide surge in cases is slowing down. Average daily cases peaked in L.A. County at over 15,000 on Jan. 8 and dropped by over 50 percent to 7,238 on Jan. 20.
LA County now returns to the color coded system in the most restrictive purple tier. However, the system does allow for the immediate opening of indoor personal care at 25 percent capacity, outdoor private gatherings of up to three households, and hotels for tourism.