Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Growing up in the depressed logging town of Aberdeen on Washington's Pacific coast, Cobain had, by his account, a relatively happy childhood until his parents, a cocktail waitress and an auto mechanic, got divorced. He was only eight at the time, and he claimed the traumatic split fueled the anguish in Nirvana's music. He shuttled back and forth between various relatives, even finding himself homeless at one point and living under a bridge. His budding artistry and iconoclastic attitude didn't win him many fans in high school; instead, he attracted beatings from "jocks and moron dudes...
...need to panic. The waitress brought me the satellite book, and there were other options: SportsChannel New York had a replay similarly scheduled for 11:30 as did the SportsChannel affiliates in Ohio and Chicago, and if all else failed, Texas' HSE had a replay pegged for midnight...
Last Wednesday, like almost every Wednesday for the past decade, The Fringe arrived at The Willow Jazz Club in Somerville around 9:30 to set up. Garzone and Gullotti walk in first, snapping on the lights, greeting the waitress, hauling in their equipment...
...different from listening to a recording as hearing someone recount a meal is from actually eating it. You need to be there to smell the smoke thick in the air, to hear the guy behind you try to pick up the waitress, to watch the leader's style, to witness the musicians interactions...
...underacting, but nobody has any fun with the opposite sex. Frank has a snappish relationship with his landlady, played by Shirley MacLaine, and is too raffish for Piper Laurie, who is excellent as a dignified lady he meets at senior-citizen matinees. Meanwhile Walt moons over a young waitress (Sandra Bullock). Also written by a sprout, Steve Conrad, and directed by Randa Haines (Children of a Lesser God, The Doctor), who specializes in the woes of isolation, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway aspires to be serious about its subject. Yet in a curious way this sobriety works against it. Frank and Walt...