In addition to an ability to fire off one-liners, the panel of show-runners seated before reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour share something else in common: success.
Transfer the cake pans to a rack and cool for about 5 minutes, then run a knife around the sides of the cakes, unmold them and peel off the paper liners.
Thousands of Deco structures -- hotels and theaters, apartment blocks and luxury villas -- are still standing, evoking the days when ocean liners anchored off Shanghai and European and Chinese grandees mingled with movie stars and gangsters in the city's jazz clubs and dance halls.