Word: waiters
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...charming, while Saks tried to coax her into doing the German accent for us. With a fiery look in her eyes, she shouted angrily: "I will not audition!" Defeated, we continued our lunch. When finally the dessert tray was offered, she looked it over carefully and said to the waiter in a perfect German accent, "I zink I vill haf ze apple strudle, sank you." She had the dessert, we had our star, and I got to work with one of the greatest actresses I ever...
...suicide, by hanging; in his cell in Alden, N.Y., near Buffalo. With Mailer's help, Abbott, serving time for armed robbery and killing an inmate, won parole and a research job in 1981. Six weeks later, he was back in jail after stabbing to death a New York City waiter. He wrote that prisoners "cannot be subdued. Only murdered...
...selling book, In the Belly of the Beast, from suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell; in Alden, New York State. With Mailer's help Abbott, serving time for armed robbery and murder, won parole in 1981. Six weeks later he was back in jail after stabbing a waiter to death. He wrote that prisoners "cannot be subdued, only murdered...
...waiter began by lifting the glass dome off a tray that held a truffle the size of a child's fist and inviting us to sniff. The aroma was seductive, but we passed on the $75 appetizer with truffle shavings. Instead I had seared Ecuadoran shrimp and braised lentils, followed by grilled ahi tuna on a bed of chorizo piperade and honey-pepper sauce. Both dishes were excellent. My companion began with scallops and figs and followed with a perfectly seared cut of roast venison...
...lack of formal musical training. Most of the others - Kern, Rodgers, Hammerstein, Larry Hart - were of German Jewish stock from the educated middle-class; Berlin was a Russian Jewish immigrant, raised on the Lower East Side, quickly out of school and into the showbiz fringe as a singing waiter. Their music came from honing a natural talent with years of study; his songwriting gift was a freak of nature. No wonder he fretted that this knack would desert him; its origin was as much a mystery as its longevity...