Remembering Food Critic Mimi Sheraton & Actor Michael Lerner

Published: April 14, 2023, 3:58 p.m.

b'Mimi Sheraton was a food writer and restaurant critic for The New York Times. So she wouldn\'t get preferential treatment at a restaurant, she had a collection of wigs to disguise herself. She died earlier this month at age 97.

Actor Michael Lerner played a studio mogul in Barton Fink, and a mob boss in Harlem Nights. He died earlier this month at age 81.

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