Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gravitas accumulated; he wrote as a waiter, as a night watchman, as a fellow and a teacher at Stanford and then at Syracuse. His third book of short stories will be out soon, and also a novel provisionally called In Pharaoh's Army, about his Vietnam service. A couple of years ago, the Hill School invited him back and, on the unanimous vote of his former classmates, gave him his high school diploma. Selections from his self-advertising reference letters were read at the ceremony...
...safe way to meet someone without hearing, 'Can I buy you a drink?' " The casual ambience is an attractive alternative to the pickup scene. "Dancing's a way to have fun without getting into emotional relationships," says Mike Martinelli, a college student who works as a waiter at Nashville's Wrangler...
Jeffrey (John Michael Higgins) is such a fellow. This pleasant young actor- waiter grew up thanking God for the joy of sex; now he curses God because "life is suddenly radioactive." So he decides that the only safe sex is celibacy. He sublimates at the gym: "endorphins, not hormones." He rejects the amiable advances of Steve (Tom Hewitt), who is HIV positive. And gradually he retreats from the gay life -- not just the sex, but the camaraderie in times of frivolity and mourning. He doesn't want to attend -- and diss -- one more AIDS memorial at which the guest stars...
...half an hour onscreen, the Genie makes dozens of eyeblink metamorphoses: a Scotsman, a Scots dog, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Senor Wences, Ed Sullivan, Groucho Marx, a French waiter, a turkey, the crows from Dumbo, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, a rabbit, a dinosaur, William F. Buckley Jr., Robert De Niro, a stewardess, a bashful sheep, Pinocchio, a magician, a Jean Gabin-style Frenchman, Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid, Arsenio Hall, a finicky tailor, Walter Brennan, a TV parade host and hostess, Ethel Merman, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Nicholson, a talking lampshade, a bee, a U- boat, a one-man band...
Some restaurants now pass out beepers so that people waiting for tables can go for a walk. Others feature airline-style lights on tables; when customers want service, they flick them on. Look out for a speaker in the booth: "Hi, I'm Randy, your waiter. Here are today's specials...