Post #529695 by arriano on Wed, May 12, 2010 10:13 AM

I spotted this bit about the Luau in Beverly Hills in the L.A. Times' obituary of Lena Horne yesterday:

Horne's long-suppressed anger over the treatment of blacks in white society erupted in 1960 when she overheard a drunk white man at the Luau restaurant in Beverly Hills use a racial epithet to refer to her.

Jumping up, she threw an ashtray, a table lamp and several glasses at him, cutting the man's forehead.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-horne-20100510,0,6377622.story

You go, Lena!

"I am Lono!" -- Hale Ka'a Tiki Lounge

[ Edited by: arriano 2010-05-12 10:14 ]