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...waitress at a seafood restaurant near the waterfront. In 1971, when she was starting out, she reported $1,000 in tips to the IRS, but more experienced waitresses told her she was being "silly." The only response from the IRS, two years later, was to tell her that she also owed $60 in Social Security taxes on the $1,000, plus a $50 late-payment penalty. Says she: "I accepted the tax. But a penalty? Come...
...last week among irate feminists, who say police are harassing Foat because of her politics but offer no evidence to support their charge. In 1965, according to Louisiana police, Foat lured Buenos Aires Visitor Moises Chayo out of a Canal Street cocktail lounge where she worked as a waitress and drove him to a deserted road outside the city. Police allege that Foat and her then husband, John Sidote, a bouncer at the lounge who had been hiding in the trunk, bludgeoned Chayo to death with a tire iron and robbed...
...comedy set in Boston, O'Neill ducks into the bar to avoid a woman who tries to tell him her political views and who turns out to be a waitress...
...Dustin Hoffman can wear a dress to get his movie character an acting job, Richard Pryor can wear a dress in his job as a waitress. Pryor plays an underemployed journalist who, for $10,000, agrees to act as the baby-sitter in the swimming pool...
...Newman: "Yeah, but you'd screw up second gear"). The only "Paul Newman" nonsense of the evening is harmless: a very pretty teen-age waitress turns pink and forgets her list of pies as she stares at Paul. He twists his nose goofily between thumb and forefinger and goes cross-eyed; she turns pinker and hides her face, bubbling with giggles. Someone tells him that he did well in an hourlong nuclear-freeze interview for Ted Turner's Cable News Network; he is not sure. On the air he knows his material cold, but some instinct for humility...