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The Nine Biggest Salon Sinners
10/5/2009 12:00:00 AM
With their shiny porcelain sinks, sleek styling stations, and perfectly coiffed employees, salons can feel like a den of perfection and tranquility in a harried, hostile, less-than-perfect world. But the business of good hair has its side of unruly customers and unpleasant outbursts, making for a less-than-ideal experience. From clients blabbing on cell phones the details of their tricky divorce settlements to others who decide it's a perfect time to take a pass out in their chair, we collected some of the most egregious salon offenses. Here are nine of the worst offenders—proving that salon etiquette doesn't end with simply showing up on time.
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Dining With Wolves

Since the heyday of swank eateries like the Brown Derby and the Stork Club, restaurateurs have known that nothing draws crowds like a celebrity clientele. Increasingly, however, the stars have begun to ask why someone else should make money off this phenomenon. Celebrities as stellar as Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro or as lunar as Al Lewis, who played Grampa in "The Munsters" 25 years ago, have bypassed the middleman and opened bistros themselves. Not all of them are in it to make a profit, of course. Some just want a tax loss. Others like to own their hangouts because they don't trust people not on their payrolls to fawn over them properly; a few, like Mickey Mantle or Sean Penn, may want a place they can't be thrown out of no matter what they do. Fans get a place to satisfy that insatiable American appetite for glamour, to share even the ephemeral communion with greatness that comes from eating a Dirty Harry burger at Clint Eastwood's Hog's Breath Inn in Carmel, Calif. "The attraction is obvious," says Fred Sampson of the New York Restaurant Association. "Even if you aren't in show business, at least you can dine with people who are."