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...restaurant. He spends every Tuesday from 3 pm to midnight as a line cook at Casablanca, perfecting the art of crostini presentation. He explains that his current position on “cold apps” is a step up from where he started last March as a prep cook. “The worst part is cleaning up—It’s my job to clean the deep fryer at the end of the night.” He draws a diagram of the deep fryer and the “poker” instrument he uses...
Hackman describes Wilson as "a good young actor with original looks." It's an understatement, but true enough. Born and bred in the affluent environs of north Dallas, Wilson was a rambunctious kid (he was expelled from prep school in 10th grade for cheating in geometry) who found redemption in his sly sense of humor and knack for writing quirky dialogue. Majoring in English at the University of Texas, he discovered a kindred spirit in Anderson, his senior-year roommate. In 1992, they wrote Bottle Rocket as a short film. After it played at the Sundance Film Festival, producer-director...
...Anderson-Wilson sophomore effort, 1998's prep-school comedy Rushmore--another funny riff on rivalry and forgiveness--also charmed the critics, but The Royal Tenenbaums, with its all-star cast (including Wilson as a western novelist with a taste for cowboy hats, loafers without socks and hard drugs), is expected to be their most successful movie...
...WASPish prep school grad Tabitha G. Filney 02 will be spending the weekend at the Connecticut estate of Andover classmate Q. Danforth J. Harriman IV (Yale 02). Im a trifle worried that the mansion wont be ready yet, because the rest of the help are still tending to our cottage, our penthouse, our villa, our chateau and our chalet, Harriman said. Only our manservant Geoffrey has arrived. I am still awaiting my chauffer and my cook, as well as my gardener, butler, governess, wet nurse and masseuse. Apologies, but I dont remember their names. I get their attention with this...
...website counsels women “to wear a fairly conservative suit in a fairly conservative color.” However, in person OCS advisors (read: translators) explain that if a woman wants to play it safe, fairly conservative must be defined as a jacket and skirt. The interview-prep site WetFeet.com is more explicit, advising that “a skirt suit is de rigeur, and anything other than non-textured nude hose and heels is pushing the envelope of what’s acceptable.” No need to stop by Hootenanny for pleather and fishnets; apparently...