NYC steakhouse forced to add disclaimer to Perry Como photo: ‘This is not Jeffrey Epstein’

Nypost ^ | 07/27/2024 | Jon Levine

[ChicagoConservative27]

An iconic city steakhouse is hitting an off note.

Gallaghers, a theater district warhorse with a century of patronage by celebrities, was forced to add an embarrassing addendum to a signed portrait of Perry Como after customers kept confusing the crooner for Jeffrey Epstein.

The framed black and white photo of a smiling Como, just off the main entrance is now ribboned by a blunt message reading, “This not Jeffrey Epstein. This is Perry Como.”

Gallaghers owner Dean Poll said he had no choice but to add the disclaimer last year, after “hundreds” of customers demanded to know why the restaurant was honoring the disgraced financier Epstein.

“It was constant. Not one a day, but all during the day. You can’t talk to the Maître d without seeing that picture,” Poll said ruefully. “So we finally put a sign up.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

People are completely stupid 🙄

[dangus]

TTIUWP?

[monkeyshine]

They can’t just put a little nameplate that says “Perry Como”? Why make a further association in people’s minds by referencing both names?

[Jim W N]

[OldHarbor]

A tipsy Mr. Magoo thought it was Epstein.

[SunkenCiv]

Best approach is to replace it with a picture of Jeffrey Epstein, and tape a note to it which says, "This is not Perry Como."

[escapefromboston]

Jeez. Just put up a sign “Perry Como” under the photo

[Sacajaweau]

Why do people give into idiots.

[map]

Who are these people?
Perry Como reminds them of Epstein?
Something is not right with this story!

[madison10]

I fail to see a resemblance

[No name given]

Exactly.

[Mastador1]

The story is Bullsquat, but it sure gave the place lots of free publicity(except for what they paid the reporter) and now lots of morons will go there to see for themselves.

[nickcarraway]

I haven’t been there in years.

[HYPOCRACY]

Maybe a little Ryan O’Neil but not even close to Epstein. Epstein looks more like that guy who played Bosch.

[verum ago]

Who are these people?

Perry Como reminds them of Epstein?

So yeah, I think there's a generational disconnect here.

I'm a "Millenial" conservative- I'm in my thirties.

I've heard the name Perry Como, but that is 100% of my familiarity with him- he's just a name to me, and I have no familiarity with his appearance or even what made him a celebrity in his time. Per Wikipedia, his career started further before my birth than my current age, and and ended before I was born.

The photo does kinda resemble Epstein, and the signature is basically illegible, as many are.

No, I'm not defending people making a 'cancel' style fuss, but I think all the older folks here on FR would do well to stop and remember at times that their cultural knowledge and experiences are not universal.

You guys have people you consider celebrities that I'm completely unfamiliar with, and vice versa. And that situation is only going to get worse as time marches on...

The average age of people in the United States is 38. Perry Como (according to that same article) basically reduced his work to holiday specials starting in 1967. That's 57 years ago. His career started in 1932- 92 freakin' years ago.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but he probably hasn't been a 'household name' for decades. So rage all you want that people aren't familiar with him, but it just is what it is.

I'm going to say it again- the guy effectively retired from anything but holiday specials 20 years before most people alive today were even born- of course us 'younger' people aren't familiar with him.

[verum ago]

Jeez. Just put up a sign “Perry Como” under the photo

This. Simple. And it'd work.

Heck, plenty of places with signed photos do this anyway, because signatures are often illegible and the photos are often old enough many people don't automatically recognize the person in them anymore.

[CIB-173RDABN]

No, I’m not defending people making a ‘cancel’ style fuss, but I think all the older folks here on FR would do well to stop and remember at times that their cultural knowledge and experiences are not universal.
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The reverse is also true, I have little or no knowledge of pop culture as it is today. I began tuning out around 1980.

[ansel12]

Some of Perry Como’s hits.

And I Love You So
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKp1HKM_4TY

Catch a Falling Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQr11aDX2pg

PERRY COMO - IT’S IMPOSSIBLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql-Ix2sWSQo

[ansel12]

People don’t have to recognize Perry Como or have any idea who he is to not see Jeffrey Epstein in restaurant photos that don’t look like him.

[nwrep]

One should not begin sentences with “So yeah”. Not even spoken, let alone written.