Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...varmints and becomes a reluctant role model for the tenderfoot's young son. Here, Haynes is the bad guy, but he's mainly Shane. When Terry puts the make on Phillip, Butch avenges the assault. He gives Phillip lessons in backwoods manhood: how to smoke, cuss, dance, romance a waitress, drive a car, steal a car, rob a store and, of course, point a loaded gun at people you don't like. It's the blind leading the blind: Butch is trying to become the father neither he nor the boy ever knew...
...mercy of a shrinking marketplace. More than 90% of the 90 graduates of a recent Focus Hope machinist program found work at companies that Cunningham had painstakingly recruited. "I had never even drilled a hole in my life," says Laura Cronyn, a 29-year-old single mother and former waitress who got one of those jobs in Detroit, "but I graduated No. 1 in my class." Cronyn plans to enroll part time in a six-year Focus Hope program that will teach students how to run a computerized factory floor. After eight years of waiting tables, she is clearly...
...only inspiring performance is given by Lily Tomlin as an aging and codependent waitress in a diner, and even her gritty spunk is ruined by the movie's banal pseudo-plot. Altman apparently interpreted Carver's point as something along the lines of: people lead day-to-day lives and experience moments of joy and moments of misery and are sometimes happy and sometimes sad. This might well have been Carver's point, in fact, but the film fails where the stories succeed because the latter are tinged with a feeling of bittersweet nostalgia that the former totally lacks. With...
...service was shoddy. Even though the waitress had a smile stretching from ear to ear and a sense of humor about our mangling of Ethiopian food names, we were rather displeased with the long wait for food. There weren't even any munchies to relieve our hunger pangs after the long walk down Mass. Ave. And it was more disturbing than funny when the other waiter brought us someone else's food for the second time. We didn't appreciate being teased...
...campy charm, the soulful coffee or the cheap and un-California-ishly cholesterol-rich menu that keeps this dive jumping among the surfer and industry-big-shot set. The real attraction is 72-year-old proprietor Bill Fischler, who lords over his young cook Alfredo and his gorgeous Valkyrian waitress Veronica while he greets and gooses the customers. Part W.C. Fields, part Walter Matthau (plus a bit of the Three Stooges' Curly Howard tossed in), Fischler is a wisecracking curmudgeon with style. And with customers like Fischler's, style counts...