POUNDSTONE: When the waiter tried to calm him down, he kept shouting, "I was bitten by a spider once." I don't want to say like a girl, because my wife will hit me, but it was a high keening noise, certainly like a female bird anyway, or a chimp, maybe a female chimp like when they're scared, like when they feel threatened." Just as he was enjoying nature's bounty, a spider crawled out from the shadowy shelter of his wicker breadbasket. On a recent night at Tossed, the cutting-edge restaurant where salad is art, Tobey Maguire was spotted amidst New York City's finest diners.
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