Unfortunately, Paulie’s brother Charlie was the one who usually dealt with the waitstaff. Herman has made appearances in movies such as “Crazy Heart,” “Once Upon a Time in America,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Analyze That” and “American Hustle.” He also had a recurring role on “The Sopranos” as “Beansie” Gaeta, as well as another HBO series, “Entourage,” as Vincent Chase’s accountant, Marvin. Paulie always answered the phone at the restaurant when he was there and always personally greeted patrons, especially the many actors and notables who frequented the place, including Kevin Spacey, Julia Roberts, Angelica Huston, Danny Aiello and Michael Keaton, just to name a few. I was a waitress and sometimes bartender at Columbus. It was located on Columbus Avenue near Lincoln Center. He was a co-owner of Columbus Cafe along with ballet great Mikhail Baryshnikov.

In the 1980s, Herman dated Bernadette Peters. One that comes to mind from my acting days is Paul Herman. This reminds me how rare it is to speak directly to the person in charge. We quickly arranged a service call, and by the next morning, our refrigerator was back in service. So we were very surprised to get the owner on the phone instead of a technician or answering service. Now, anyone who lives around here knows Ruby and Quiri is a large, long-established company with many employees. Since the store wasn’t open yet, we called the off-hours emergency number and much to our surprise, owner Rick Ruby answered. We then called Ruby and Quiri in Johnstown for service, because that’s where we bought it, as well as most of our other appliances. We also bagged up some snow and put it on the refrigerator items in a cooler. Since the outside temperature was near zero, we were able to bag up the frozen goods and set them outside on the woodpile to stay cold. Thursday morning a week ago, we woke up to find our refrigerator-freezer not working and the food rapidly defrosting.

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