How Twist unraveled

By CHARLES FERRUZZA

Back in the days when I was juggling two jobs — as a reporter and a waiter — a few people asked if I would ever want to open my own restaurant. Say what? I’m not that crazy! I am just crazy enough, however, to know all the lyrics to the song “Twisted” by Annie Ross and Wardell Grey which includes the lyrics: “My analyst told me that I was right out of my head/ He said I need treatment, but I’m not that easily led.”

I suppose I should have warned Lana Todd — the IMB business planner, Pilates instructor and former investor in the short-lived Sarah’s restaurant at 1815 Grand who took over as owner and turned it into the equally short-lived Twist — that taking on the operation was a twisted idea. But I’m not that easily led … to smash people’s dreams, anyway.