Word: waitresses
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...Shelly, who had written and directed two previous movies and appeared in something like 20 films, mostly of the low budget, independent variety, left behind a devoted husband, an infant daughter and a completed film, Waitress. It appears to be a true reflection of her spirit - eccentric, good-naturedly feminist, kind of funny and kind of sentimental. Despite its realistic setting in a small Southern town, it is much more a fable than it is a slice of authentic life...
...Speaking of slices, it concerns a waitress named Jenna (well-played by Keri Russell, mixing defensiveness and determination) who has a gift for baking exotically named pies ("Pregnant Miserable Self Pitying Loser" pie is one example), which bring her creative happiness and her customers culinary delirium. The rest of her life is, however, half-baked. She's married to a lout named Earl (Jeremy Sisto) who is a pure feminist nightmare - self-centered, exploitative, whiney and angry - and her waitress colleagues (played by Cheryl Hines and by Shelly herself) are desperately looking for love in all the wrong places. Jenna...
...frequently in the streets. While factionalism exercised at the end of a stick may be a standard part of the political process in many parts of Africa, it was a shocking and unsettling occurrence here. "People are nervous - they don't know what to expect," the Toucan's waitress said. "They are stocking up on groceries." The West African country of some 12 million, mostly Muslim and from diverse indigenous tribes, has long been celebrated as one of the continent's leading outposts of peace and stability. But Senegal's secular government doesn't look quite like the model...
...Some of the recipients savored the moment by recalling how far they'd come - like the proverbial "I remember when I was just working as a waitress" story, there was the "I remember when I was just working on baggage X-ray machines" recollections. Where the regular Oscars show clips from the nominated films, the SciTech awards show clips from labs, pictures of graphs and charts, rows of scientists bent diligently over their computers. "An award like this is a rare and beautiful thing," said Colin Davidson, honored for his work on 3D modeling. "An award like this...
...Carter, executive director of the U.S.C. Sports Business Institute. "They're not going to have a negative reaction to this guy." Plus, the ads are genuinely entertaining. In a MasterCard commercial, Manning, reversing the roles of peppy fan and star athlete, shouts "You're still the man" at a waitress who has dropped dishes, and tells a clumsy moving team, "All right, guys, they're not saying boo. They're saying moo-vers." Even guys who live to crush him are impressed. "I love them," Buffalo Bills linebacker Takeo Spikes says of the ads. "In your wildest imagination...