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...play the lead and that Harold Pinter would direct." Pleasence partially modeled his performance on a well-known, dictatorial movie producer, whom he prefers not to name. "I used him as a model for a quality I don't have-authority. I can't even get a waiter in a restaurant." Pleasence considers Goldman one of his three best performances-the other two being Davies in Pinter's The Caretaker ("I had the image of an alley cat in mind") and the title role in the Broadway production of Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos...
Hoping to Help. His skill on the court took Ashe into the best clubs, but all too often club members mistook him for a waiter and hollered: "Hey, boy, bring me a drink, will you?" At first Ashe swallowed the insults. But lately he finds himself growing blacker and more militant-on the court, as well...
...cuisine good for laughs but not for digestion. Affronting his gourmet tastes at one restaurant was a mousse au chocolat crowned with whipped cream and as a final insult, perhaps, a maraschino cherry. At another establishment, Claiborne complained that a wedge of Camembert cheese had been served cold. The waiter offered to "run it under the broiler." "Now I ask you," wrote the exasperated critic, "isn't that worth the price of the meal...
THIS week in the U.S. of 1968, a Negro waiter will shuffle off, mumbling: "Yassuh, I'se hurrin' fas' as I know how." An angry Indian will vow: "Many white eyes will die!" A Marine sergeant will cry: "Come on, let's get the yellowbellies...
Vincent T. Di Pierro, college student and part-time waiter at the Ambassador Hotel, recalled seeing Sirhan at the moment of the murder. "The minute the first two shots were fired," testified Di Pierro, "he still had a very sick-looking smile on his face. That's one thing-I can never forget that...