In 1995, two Stanford researchers came up with a selected list of film clips able to elicit a single emotion. What 1989 film's scene that takes place in Katz's Delicatessen was the top-rated clip for amusement? (hint: what was she really having?)
Estelle Reiner Harry Met Sally...", in which director Rob Reiner cast his mother as a customer in a scene with stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan at Katz's Delicatessen, in which Ryan fakes what was described as "a very public (and very persuasive) orgasm". Approached by a waitress after Ryan finishes, Reiner deadpans "I’ll have what she’s having". The line was ranked 33rd on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 movie quotations, just behind "Casablanca"'s "Round up the usual suspects". Reiner died of natural causes on October 25, 2008 at age 94 in her home in Beverly Hills, California.
What a Carve Up! (film) on a similar level. The fact that a film of this degree of vulgarity and ineptitude should have managed a week's booking at neighbourhood theatres throughout Manhattan demonstrates just how acute the motion picture product shortage really is." - "New York Times", 13 September 1962. The film was used extensively within Jonathan Coe's satirical novel "What a Carve Up!". The book's protagonist, Michael Owen, becomes obsessed with the film after first watching it as a young boy. Additionally, the last part of the book follows the plot of the film. "What a Carve Up!" was released on DVD in the