Mike
Mazurki
I have
lunch here every Wednesday with Moose Malloy and Lillian Saddlebury.
Moose was first created in Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My
Lovely. Mike
Mazurki recreated Moose on film. Twenty-five years later he has opened
this restaurant on the cover of the paperback edition--a long moonlit view
across MacArthur Park where the Elks Building looms ominously in the eerie
blur that falls between art and archæology.The first time
Lillian Saddlebury came to the Cauliflower Alley Club she was Ilene
Segalove, but Mazurki introduced her as Lillian Saddlebury, my assistant
girlfriend. Wrestlers take as many liberties with names and titles as
correspondence artists. Like many things in LA that Ilene Segalove is
not, the Elks Building is a tall blond tower with knockout faces carved in
its facade.