Word: bouncers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doug Akin walks into The Big Easy Bar on Boylston Street. A stern bouncer and a beautiful girl holding the VIP list promptly block his path. Akin doesn t seem like a man a club would turn away. Handsome and well-dressed, everything from his ID to his shoes checks out. Is he an enemy of the guy throwing the party? Not quiteahe IS the guy throwing the party. The beautiful girl is holding out the VIP list for his final check of approval; the bouncer is deferring people hoping to catch a word with the young host...
Gandolfini discovered the stage after spending years as a Manhattan bouncer and nightclub manager. When a friend took him to an acting class in the late '80s, he was left so unsettled and challenged by a focusing exercise that involved threading a needle that he knew he had to return. "I'd also never been around actors before," says Gandolfini, "and I said to myself, 'These people are nuts; this is kind of interesting.'" After touring Scandinavia in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire ("I remember lots of old people falling asleep in dinner theaters," he says), Gandolfini immersed...
...First" anywhere, so eventually we ask a high-tech bouncer at the Karma Club for directions...
...approach the bouncer and suddenly I'm unsure of myself, my heart starts pumping a bit faster, and my fingers can't extricate my driver's license. A familiar fear washes over me, and it takes a few seconds to calm down and remember that the birthday I celebrated over intersession was The One, the day I got 10 percent off at the Pro, the day I turned 21. I'm golden...
...First" anywhere, so eventually we ask a high-tech bouncer at the Karma Club for directions...