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Ongoing Series Columnist Jenn Harris joins your favorite celebrities to explore their go-to cuisines and restaurants in Los Angeles. Michael Chow likes to name-drop.“I did a movie called ‘55 Days at Peking,’” he says, seated at the sushi counter at Matsuhisa in Los Angeles on a recent Friday morning. “It was a huge movie with Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston. I’m name-dropping. Bobby Helpmann, a huge, huge production.”The founder of the Mr. Chow restaurant empire and subject of the recent HBO…

Image: Kate Green / Stringer (Getty Images)Deborah Chow, the director of the Disney+ show, Obi-Wan Kenobi, went on the Crew Call podcast to chat about the challenges that came alongside working on the limited series. She had just finished Mandalorian and Kenobi had gone through “numerous iterations” and passed through multiple hands before landing in her lap. Connecting the Series to the Prequels and Original TrilogyShe says that while Kenobi was originally pitched as a standalone film, even by the time it got to her, as…