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Bubbly option
at Boatfloug
By Kirk Boxleitner
kbox/eitner@masoncounty. com
Gail McCoy remodeled The Boat House Restau-
rant & Bar in Allyn a year after she bought it in
'2011 for the same reason she now offers a distinctive
outdoor dining option to help keep her patrons safe
from COVID-19. .
“When this whole COVID thing started, I asked
myself, ‘Do we want to save money, or do we want to
provide our diners with an enjoyable experience?’ ”
McCoy said when asked about the outdoor dining
“bubbles” at the Boat House. The bubbles are trans-
parent tents that offer relative privacy and water—
front views at the same time.
The Boat House started out with five bubbles, all
named after fictional ships — the SS Minnow, Jolly
Roger, Jenny and Orca seat two to four people each,
and the Black Pearl seats a group of six to eight.
They are limited to adults and require reservations.
They’re booked into December.
The bubbles have drawn diners from three neigh-
boring counties, and they’ve been stress-tested by
the weather. McCoy and her employees figured out
on the spot how to keep them standing against 50
mph gusts. ‘
“We quickly learned where to put the stakes and
Gail McCoy, owner- of The Boat House Restaurant Bar in Allyn, seeks to
provide diners with an
enjoyable experience that is safe during the COVlD-19 era. Courtesy photo
56;, page A-20
THE DARK REVIEWS
3.
’Scent0f a Woman’a slightly edgier sentiment of gratitude
( j ompared with other widely reserve a room at the luxurious
celebrated holidays, there’s a Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York
relative paucity of films City, hire a high-class escort, and ul-
devoted to, or even set during,
timately blow his brains out, and he’s
Thanksgiving.
classmates for the humiliating prank
they pulled on the school’s headmas-
ter (the sadly departed James Reb-
hom, who excelled at playing sternly
officious authority figures).
edgier selection, and your family is
cool with sitting down on the couch
together to watch Al Pacino
spin poetry out of profanity,
you should at least consider
hijacked Charlie to accompany him on
Of course, if you’re looking
for the absolute best Thanks-
giving film, suitable for all
ages, funny and heartwarm-
ing all at once, there’s no oth-
er choice than John Hughes’
1987 “Planes, Trains and Au—
tomobiles,” with Steve Martin
and John Candy playing off
each other perfectly to evoke
pathos and execute pratfalls
with equal measures of deftness.
But if you’re looking for a slightly
Martin Brest’s 1992 “Scent of
a Woman,” a film that centers
on a character who would
likely be the black sheep of
any family during their fes-
tive get-togethers.
Chris O’Donnell has never
been more endearingly ear-
nest than as Charlie Simms,
a scholarship student at an
exclusive New England prep
school, who’s being pressured to in;
form on his wealthier, more privileged
By KIRK
BOXLEITNER
or,
Sheilgon Cognty Ion;
To afford a plane ticket back home
to Oregon for Christmas, Charlie ac—
.cepts a temporary job for the weekend
of Thanksgiving to look after retired,
blind and alcoholic Army Lt. Col.
Frank Slade (Pacino, adopting an
admittedly Foghorn Leghorn-esque‘
Southern accent that seems to have
stuck with him throughout the rest of
his acting career).
Unknown to Charlie, Col. Slade
has a plan. He’s been saving up
his disability checks to rent a limo,
Imme
.DlyE-IN ,.
THEATER
this last hurrah of a trip.
This puts Charlie in the position of
trying to figure out what to do about
both the dilemma that still awaits
him at school, after the Thanksgiv-
ing weekend is done, and the limited
amount of time he has left before
then, to convince Col. Slade not to kill
himself.
This film likely could have been set
during any time of the year, if not for
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