Power Dining At The Palm
The LAT pays tribute to venerated industry power-eatery The Palm, where agents, executives, and celebrity mascots old and new (Larry King goes there "two or three times a week" to obtain the protein-heavy sustenance that keeps him from not looking a day over 138 years young) gather to pretend to enjoy one another's company while dining on steaks and gawking at the trademark caricatures adorning the restaurant's walls. The Palm is moving up the block and taking its famous walls with it, and the Times gives a hint about which of the current generation of stars awaiting immortality might make the cut in the new digs:
Now that the Palm is planning to move, probably in 2008, its managers have held off on additions to the wall. Orders for caricatures of such regulars as Matt Damon, Ben Stiller, Enrique Iglesias, Vin Diesel and Adam Sandler are kept in a stack, awaiting head shots from their agents.
While the owners are committed to retaining the place's old-school charm, they aren't resistant to the kind of change that might attract the younger Hollywood set. Negotiations are currently underway with Lindsay Lohan's people to contract the starlet for a kind of experimental dinner theater, in which she would crash her Mercedes into the restaurant's valet stand once a night in a dramatic reenactment of her signature paparazzi-fleeing car chases.