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...restaurant told a few corny jokes, played the harmonica and belted out Casey Jones and Dixie in a gravelly baritone. The crowd loved it. One reason, perhaps, was that Maddox's fellow songster and guitar accompanist was Bobby Lee Fears, a black ex-convict. Fears worked as a busboy and dishwasher for Maddox until his boss's restaurant went under. The duo's first big-time booking will be an appearance on NBC's series of Laugh-In specials, scheduled to begin late this year. Says Maddox of the act: "It's just two people...
...teens, Mamet was earning his theatrical and financial capital, doing anything profitable, from washing windows to waiting on tables. "The first thing I learned," he says, "is that the exigent speak poetry. They do not speak the language of newspapers." He soon became backstage-struck and signed on as busboy at the Second City, Chicago's famous improvisational company. "It was a superb, superb training ground, and their rhythm-the rhythm of action, the rhythm of speech-influences the way I write...
Nemetz took five semesters off, traveling in France and Alaska, and working as a rental agent, a hair salon receptionist and a busboy at a Boston seafood restaurant...
...muscular, street-smart cockney who spent his early years in London's tough East End. In 1965 Margulis set out to visit his sister in New York City, then rambled throughout much of the country, ending up in Las Vegas. In need of work, he took a job as busboy at the Desert Inn, thinking that a busboy drove the golf carts around the links. Instead, he soon found himself delivering food to the Hughes penthouse, where the aides presumably were impressed by his discretion and savvy...
...today. Though his artistic, almost romantic style of play drew awards for "brilliancy" and won him the U.S. Open Championship in 1955, he was never able to make a living from the game and supplemented his tournament and chess-studio earnings by working as a Waldorf-Astoria busboy and a New York cabby...