Tao uptown new york8/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Tao Uptown is located on East 58th Street (between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue) in the Midtown East/Theatre District of Manhattan. Tao is open Monday through Saturday for lunch, Sunday for brunch, and daily for dinner. We booked a table using the Open Table reservation system, and the hostess seated us immediately upon arrival despite the crowded restaurant. We checked our Open Table app to find nearby restaurants with availability, and Tao seemed to fit our needs – it had a table available, it was located nearby, and we were familiar with the restaurant name. We had planned to eat farther uptown at a restaurant where we had a gift card, but we realized en route to that restaurant that we did not have the card with us, so we made an alternate plan. Grab some popcorn and a Cherry Coke Zero and kick your feet up.My spouse and I dined for lunch at Tao Uptown on a Saturday afternoon in late December 2014. You won't like it if you don't like horror, but the title is "American Psycho" and the cover has a man with a knife, so you know what you're getting yourself into. It's possibly Bale's best, or at least the one that pushed him into the spotlight. Clearly, I really want you to see this film. But the vast majority is shot from such angles that it's almost all left to the imagination: you think you see more than you really do. threesomes and science-knows-what done with a coat hangar. I guess I should also compliment them on the tasteful way (read: artistic) the sex and violence was done. ![]() Not so much on the Robert Palmer or Whitney Houston. This film, along with the gentlemen I go to the tavern with, really got me into Huey Lewis and Phil Collins. The book does a fine job of elaborating on the music of the 1980s, and I think they incorporated that well here (throwing it in to death scenes rather than as solo pieces adds an interesting twist). Besides the great acting (the real reason to watch this), the music is very noteworthy. The little dance during the Huey Lewis scene (one I have heard he added himself) remains for me one of the two key scenes (the other involving a chainsaw). As Bateman, he is perfectly self-absorbed and also maniacally distant. Bale is able to be any character he wants (comapre this to "Batman Begins", "The Prestige" and especially "The Machinist" and see if there's any of the same characters here). Bale was the perfect choice to play Bateman and I'm glad director Mary Harron would settle for no one else (turning down Ed Norton, who gets compared to Bale but remains inferior). But, of course, stealing the show is Christian Bale. Chloe Sevigny (one of my favorites), Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon (not my favorite but good for her role) and Gwen Turner. ![]() Even those looking for a horror film might be let down, as that isn't the real focus here. or just be really confused by the style (the directing is weird, but actually pretty straight-forward once you've read the book). Some (like myself) will love every little aspect, while others might be turned off my the sex and violence. or capitalist? This film explains there might not be much difference and perhaps shows us why serial killers in the 1980s were more celebrated than any time before or since in popular culture. Patrick Bateman is a heartless man with no concern for those around him. ![]()
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