dira: Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (Wings by Shell)
Dira Sudis ([personal profile] dira) wrote2004-07-27 03:49 pm
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Today's mission accomplished: the new apartment has toilet paper, hand soap, digital cable, and high-speed internet. It's now officially habitable, except for the lack of places to sit, hand towels, and trash cans. Need to buy trash cans.

Came home (to the apartment that has chairs and stuff) to the following writeup at freep.com (emphasis mine):

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Red Wings defenseman Chris Chelios was kicked out of a popular restaurant Saturday.

The paper said Chelios was escorted out of FIX after a plate-smashing binge while dining with Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer, tennis star Jennifer Capriati, actors Cuba Gooding Jr. and Alan Thicke and NHL players Sergei Fedorov, Luc Robitaille and Marty McSorley.

A FIX publicist said Chelios "explained to management that it was OK because he was Greek, but it didn't fly." Chelios was referring to a Greek tradition of plate breaking.

After cooler heads prevailed, Chelios was allowed to rejoin his pals, who were in town for Bruckheimer's annual Bad Boys of Hockey weekend outing.


Er. There's actually a Greek tradition of plate-breaking? I thought Doyle was making that up.

Anybody care to speculate what caused the nice man to start breaking plates in the middle of dinner with two ex-teammates? And since when are Lucky and Sergei "Bad Boys of Hockey" anyway?