Word: barkeep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Have you heard about the bartender who sank the Titanic? It happened on the record charts, not in the North Atlantic, and instead of an iceberg, the fatal blow was struck by Dave Matthews, a former barkeep turned leader of the Dave Matthews Band. After spending 16 weeks at No. 1, the once unsinkable Titanic soundtrack collided with Matthews' new album, Before These Crowded Streets. When it was over, Matthews reigned in the top spot...
...sour, insistent patter of a guy without dolls, a sharpie gone flat. Tonight he's got nothing better to do than talk to a taciturn desk clerk (the excellent Paul Benedict). The clerk hardly listens, but that doesn't matter. Erie could be speaking to a barkeep or a stranger on a bus, or to a mute God on a slow night in limbo. He's a nonstop mouth in search of an open...
MARRIED. TED DANSON, 47, onetime Cheers barkeep and former Whoopi Goldberg beau, and actress MARY STEENBURGEN, 42; at Danson's home on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Celebrity attendees included Tom Hanks and the bride's old chums from Arkansas Bill and Hillary Clinton...
...Film noir also typically calls for a dash of psychopathy, and in Red Rock West that is provided by Dennis Hopper, who plays the professional killer and causes lightning flashes of madness to streak across the screen. Red Rock West has the customary film noir hint of civic corruption (barkeep Wayne is also the town sheriff) and reveals the equally conventional link between crimes present and a large crime past...
...Fosse gave Herb Gardner the nickname Whimsy. But Gardner, 58, reveals a far deeper writer in this story of a Jewish barkeep in Lower Manhattan who is sure that success will come from assimilation, endless self- reinvention and unstinting faith in the American Dream. The tale, narrated by a once rebellious son who is now himself a rebelled-against father, came from Seattle Repertory Theater to Broadway...