The lawsuit that a fired restaurant manager is bringing against Chef of the Realm Gordon Ramsay is the gift that keeps on giving. As we noted, Martin Hyde, the general manager at Dillon's, a failing theater district eatery, applied to be a part of Ramsay's show "Kitchen Nightmares." Hyde alleges Ramsay humiliated him, planted rancid meat in the fridge (is this a euphemism for something?) and hired actors to pose as customers. Hyde got fired and the restaurant is still failing as miserably as always. But, as Chris Shott writes in the today's Observer, the real question is whether anything could have been done to save Dillon's.

We sort of miss the pre-Kuczynski days of facial work shame. PR exec Amy Krakow admits in the Times today that she spends an "astounding sum" of money on youthiness-maintenance treatments, including sessions in a hyperbaric chamber, plastic surgery on her "face and torso," hair straightening and Botox injections. So she's a Manhattan lady of a certain age, basically. (Yuck.) Gosh, where'd she get all that money, anyway? Anyhoo! It's a thousand bucks a week, says the Times, for a lady to keep herself pretty from the nails to the hairline—regimens that also take ten hours a week. "I can think of a couple of people where $3,500 a month might be low," says one lady. Yeah, but they look really not haggy or stretched at all.