open mike Mike Vaccaro ‘Love Story’ nails how MSG regular John F. Kennedy Jr. was the quintessential New Yorker By Mike Vaccaro Published Feb. 28, 2026, 2:48 p.m. ET Daryl Hannah and John F. Kennedy Jr. sitting courtside at Game 3 of the 1984 NBA Finals. AP Look, what can I say? My tastes tend to be simple. Sometimes I just prefer a double-stack smash from Smashburger than a steak from Peter Luger’s. I’ll always go with a banana split over an apple-cognac soufflé.
“A hot dog at the ballpark,” Humphrey Bogart once said, “is better than a steak at the Ritz.”
(Yes, that’s Bogey’s second-straight appearance in “Open Mike,” and I’ll happily keep that streak alive as long as I can. We still have all of “Casablanca” to aggregate.)
