The Queen of Melrose

…Have you ever been in there? I went to the one on Santa Monica, the original. That was the one. That's where they all worked. I mean, Ben, imagine like, I know the Palm in New York was popping, but this was like Don Rickles at the bar, Carson. Like when I went there, I saw the first time I saw Denzel Washington eating with his family.…

…And then you're not allowed to have them. But it didn't work. So my grandmother stood Jehovah. And then my uncle Junior, my father's brother, worked in the Palm restaurant out here. So those days it was like Johnny Carson. It was Merv Griffith. It was always like I Dream of Jeannie. It was all the, you know, it was just like the hangout to get steak and lob…

…Oh, my God. It's brutal. It's tough. Brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal. Especially when you're Catholic and you have all these things growing up.…