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>> john: he was the master of ceremonies. he was the ring master, and he enjoyed being someone who could play host to the gathering of rich and powerful and important or self-important people. >> jerry: i'm most amazed me that i know he spent a lot of time in the kitchen, and he got splattered with some food, he'd go down and change, because he'd come walking out around the crowd shaking hands, saying hello, being jeremiah. and, uh, always just looking so pristine. >> martha: totally in control. and you, of course, you loved that. you wanted to see him. you wanted to see who was touching your ...

>> james: you know the ocean liners, you always had first class and cabin class. the thing about stars, it was just like that. >> tony: the socialites could look around and go, "oh look at, i'm mingling with regular people." and these edgy people could go, "oh look, i'm as comfortable in this environment as anybody else is." >> anthony: it mattered who else was there, what might be happening, what might happen. the restaurant as seen. >> mario: whereas the restaurants of the '50s and '60s, the bar was just a place where you had to wait. by the time stars became what it was, the bar was the cen...

>> alexandra: too many new locations at the same time, so too many, too much, too soon, too fast. >> ken: i remember there was a stars palo alto and there was a stars cafe, and then he opened 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, yo...

Own seat at the bar, we started putting brass nameplates. >> jerry: my usual bar stool there was my brass plate. i go, "what the hell is this?" jeremiah was around with that little smirk. he was having his fun. uh, there, jerry matters. >> tony: one of the most fun times of the year was halloween at stars. literally the dining room was packed with people who knew that every drag queen in san francisco was going to walk through the dining room at stars and show off their outfit. >> ken: and it was dangerous and it was sexy and there was -- there were drugs around. and watching him night after n...

♪ >> john: he was the master of ceremonies. he was the ring master, and he enjoyed being someone who could play host to the gathering of rich and powerful and important or self-important people. >> jerry: i'm most amazed me that i know he spent a lot of time in the kitchen, and he got splattered with some food, he'd go down and change, because he'd come walking out around the crowd shaking hands, saying hello, being jeremiah. and, uh, always just looking so pristine. >> martha: totally in control. and you, of course, you loved that. you wanted to see him. you wanted to see who was touching y...