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Wilson's walk on the wild side is set in a New York City greasy spoon. This diner serves as an oasis in the urban wasteland for more than 20 outcasts and losers of every stripe--hoods, hustlers, whores, queens, dykes, drunks, punks and junkies...
...final scene is Patricia's, a diner a couple of blocks from campus. Next door is the Holiday Inn, in front of which disgruntled workers are picketing, trying to win a contract. In the busy diner, students grab a quick brunch before heading for the Yale-Brown football game, and New Haven residents sit at the counter warming up with a cup of coffee...
More rebellious customers have taken action. At Larry Parker's pricey 24- Hour Diner one recent afternoon, an annoyed patron yanked a woman's hair as he walked out because she refused to put out her cigarette. At Cafe Beverly Hills, an upscale coffee shop, an elderly man punched his female companion when she told him he must snuff his cigar. "I've been smoking for 92 years," said the patron. "No one is going to tell me where I can smoke...
Once a significant part of the American popular culture, the diner has changed, but not disappeared. Gone are the days when you could stroll into the Town Diner in Watertown at three a.m. for a cup of coffee and some fries. Now it only serves the morning crowd and closes down after the lunch-time crowd has left. One regular customer attributed the diner's demise to the closing of local factories and the changing demographics of the neighborhood; with fewer workers and more professionals, the demand for a local center dwindled. During those hours when it is still open...
...virgin Caddy, with one-sixteenth of a mile on it, collides with Tilley's car. B.B. steals Tilley's restless wife (Barbara Hershey). Tilley defenestrates his wife's clothes and assaults the intruding B.B. with eggs and tomatoes. Barry Levinson, who worked this territory with a younger ensemble in Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions in the sprung rhythms of everyday speech. Levinson...