The Rainforest Cafe developed from the idea of a rainforest-themed restaurant, conceived in approximately 1979 by Steven Schussler. for use of the trade dress created and owned by the Amazon Bar & Grill.
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The Amazon Bar & Grill subsequently closed its Santa Monica restaurant in February 1997 and sold its Sherman Oaks restaurant to Chamber Gas, Inc., maintaining a license agreement with Chamber Gas, Inc. Both restaurants had small floor plans and featured popular live adult musical acts in the evenings, thereby giving the restaurants a nightclub atmosphere and catering to an adult crowd. The grand opening of a second Amazon Bar & Grill, designed by Chris Zurga, took place on Jon a commercial street in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles and was nationally televised on the "Cable News Network." To create the rainforest ambiance, the Amazon Bar & Grill's decor included the following features: a fiber-optic star system, including shooting stars, on a domed ceiling jungle murals with cartoon-like animals artificial banyan trees forming a branch canopy overhead waterfalls a "tree hut" for live entertainment simulated earth and rock formations anthropological artifacts silk flowers jungle trees foliage hanging from the ceiling jungle sounds a concrete floor a dolphin on a pedestal a small retail cabinetapproximately six feet by two feetcontaining artifact-like items and clothes with the "Amazon" logo an aquarium with exotic fish and a menu with items reflecting the rainforest theme.
The grand opening was televised nationally on the "E Channel," and additional television coverage of the restaurant by "Entertainment Tonight" followed. The first Amazon Bar & Grill opened in Santa Monica, California on Octoas a small restaurant, designed by Franco Vecchio, on the first floor of a large office building. In 1991, Anthony Colagreco conceived of the concept for the Amazon Bar & Grill and began taking practical steps necessary to develop such concept. Esades, Heins Mills & Olson, Minneapolis, MN, for defendants. Gustafson, Renae Diane Steiner, Karla Marie Gluek, Vincent J. Mansfield, Vincent John Ella, Mansfield Tanick & Cohen, Minneapolis, MN, Daniel R Kelly, Maun & Simon, Mpls, MN, Daniel E. Neimann, Paul Joseph Yechout, Moss & Barnett, Minneapolis, MN, for plaintiff. Beard, Merchant & Gould, Minneapolis, MN, Thomas Jerome Shroyer, Paul G. I would venture the suggestion that the world has lost nothing from Mr Bindley’s low productivity.AMAZON, INC., d/b/a Amazon Bar & Grill, a California Corporation, and Anthony E. IMDb tells me he directed but seven and wrote but four movies. I have no idea who William Bindley is or ever was. But she is let down by the indifferent script nor is the direction anything special, for that matter. She is a pretty woman and a fine actress.
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The movie is mostly a one-woman show and Bonnie Bedelia makes it worth 95 minutes of your time (if you’re a curious movie buff, that is). He is neither mysterious enough in the beginning nor menacing enough in the end no wonder he’s been forgotten. Billy Wirth has more screen time, but leaves no impression whatsoever. Will Patton, one of the greatest character actors alive, is wasted in a minor role unworthy of his tremendous talent. The cast doesn’t seem too enthusiastic and one can hardly blame them. The former is easy to guess well before the end and the latter is not especially dramatic. The second half, however, is a tedious combination of murder mystery and courtroom drama.
Briefly, a successful judge (Bedelia) neglected by her slightly unhinged husband (Patton) hooks up with a mysterious guy from the library (Wirth).
The first half is rather a fine thriller with erotic overtones nothing terribly original, but effective enough and with some steamy sex scenes. This is one justly forgotten movie two movies, in fact.