Word: waitering
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...Rolliflex and Leica cameras with a shutter movement so silent you could not hear it. All of these I gazed at with the avidity of a magpie. At times, the palms of my hands actually itched with temptation and desire." He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese as a punishment, a dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, chew sugarcane stalks, polish ancestral bones on "hungry ghosts" day, and speak rudimentary Cantonese...
...drilled holes in the walls to watch guests have sex). He used them in a romantic comedy about a young, depressed Hollywood actor who comes home to his mother's funeral, confronts his father and meets a woman. He wrote the script in 2000 while working as a waiter in Los Angeles after graduating from Northwestern, where he majored in film. "Almost everyone had passed on it," he says of his script. "They all said, 'Make it a three-actstructure movie.' If I submitted it to a screenwriting class, I would have failed. It should have been harder...
...parties, fluorescent-lighting and tentative moments with a new girl, Sam (Natalie Portman ’03), there’s something awkward that still shouldn’t be. The sense that he is playing this exactly right—Braff, as his biography suggests (he was a waiter and, until now, a minor actor), is largely playing himself—can’t be overcome by the feeling that exactly right isn’t exactly convincing...
...chicken, or eggplant parmesan—arrive, and our table bonds as we try to piece together the clues. All we end up piecing together are the strange color-coded pieces of foam on our table, until one amateur sleuth discovers that these foam slips actually signal to each waiter which entrée the guest pre-ordered. The salmon is a tad overcooked, and the chicken is basically a glorified chicken nugget—a slab of white meat covered in golden fry. Popular consensus concludes that the eggplant parmesan was the hit of the night. The roasted potatoes...
...fact, she's no sooner through the door of her favorite cafe in Antioch, Ill., than the workers greet her by name and ask whether she's ready for that cup. She laughs and says, no, she'll take it after lunch, and she's sure to remind the waiter midway through her meal, "I want that cup of coffee to go." The high school assistant and mother of three has only recently been able to indulge her passion for java, thanks to surgery last summer to repair a leaky bladder. The problem had plagued Bartosh, 61, ever since...