October 25, 2001
By Jae-Ha Kim
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago cast has been getting a taste of Chicago's cuisine. Here are a few places they've hit on a regular basis:
TIMMY O'TOOLE'S PUB (River North): Kyle and two young women were enjoying lunch. Jim Kleckner, who has been detailing the cast's lives at www.liquid generation.com, says a colleague sent shots over to the cast members. "The kids rejected them because they were being filmed," says Kleckner. "My friend went up to them and asked why they turned down the shots. They were nice and just said they couldn't drink them. The crew members then came right up to my friend and stood by him until he left."
HOT DIGGITY DOG (River North): The kids like their Chicago-style hot dogs. They've eaten here several times. But when they saw Kleckner (see above), they hightailed it to Pockets, a nearby fast food joint. "Kyle and two of the blond girls were at Hot Diggity Dog first," says Kleckner. "We always see the kids there. They like greasy food. Kyle was really nice and shook hands with us. One of the girls was really bitchy. I was filming them for our Web site and she said, 'I don't want to be filmed. You don't have my permission.' Then the producer touched my arm and said she'd appreciate it if we respected the cast and didn't film them. I said, 'You're filming them.' Then they left."
GIBSONS STEAKHOUSE
(Gold Coast): Kyle has been there several times. He recently took 14 young
football-player types (but not fellow cast member and burgeoning girlfriend
Kelly) for dinner before heading off for drinks at John Barleycorn in Wrigleyville.
The dining room was filled to capacity, so the boys were ushered into a
private room upstairs to dine a la carte. All that testosterone must have
been satiated by the food and drink, because they were as well-behaved
as could be.
Some of the boys were friends
from Kyle's Princeton days. Though they liked being thisclose to fame,
they didn't seem to enjoy the production crew. When they managed to get
away from the cameras, they dished like little schoolgirls.
"They didn't have anything
good to say about the show," says a source. "They complained about the
production people and the un-realness of it all. They weren't knocking
Kyle, though, and they never discussed any of the other roommates at all.
They just complained and made jokes about production."
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