Cobb

For Katz, it led to steady work that included playing Bond villain Billy Ray Cobb in “A Time to Kill,” a cutthroat stockbroker in “Boiler Room,” a hitman in Soderbergh’s “The Limey” and a theater actor who portrays Adolf Hitler in the director’s 2002 film “Full Frontal.”

It reminds me of the shrimp cocktail at this little chain back in New Zealand called Cobb & Co. that my parents used to take us to.

Actor Lee J. Cobb’s daughter was married there, and before the inn closed, in 1976, it let couples come back to reclaim their “piece of the rock.”

Enjoy them as is for a quick, on-the-go breakfast, toss them into a Cobb salad, mash them into egg salad, slice them into homemade ramen or add them to fried rice.

At 2:37 a.m., operations reported several homes on fire in this area: one near Cobb Estate trailhead at the northern end of Lake Avenue, and two more several blocks southwest on Wapello Street.