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...rented house near Los Angeles, while Arthur tapes Maude and Saks completes his film version of Mame (in which his wife re-created her supporting role). She is sensibly private about her personal life, but her late-blooming stardom overtakes her occasionally. "My God, you're Maude!" a waitress shouted at her recently. "To tell you the truth, I don't know if you look better or worse...
...work all day running ski tows and Mom has to work half the night as a cocktail waitress to pay the taxes on what was once an inexpensive piece of property...
...People come to Karuizawa with the expectation of spending money," he says, "so why shouldn't I help them in this endeavor?" Even those who do not sample the $38 cup of coffee-served at a special table by a kimono-clad waitress in a ritual that resembles a tea ceremony-can leave the Akaneya with the feeling of having been overcharged...
...enterprise aspects of the custom in the U.S., many foreigners become hopelessly confused when the time actually arrives to tip someone. They can also get taken. Chizumi Otani, a Tokyo housewife whose U.S. visit was a 50th birthday present from her family, recently handed a $5 bill to her waitress in a San Francisco restaurant to pay for a $3.30 lunch. The waitress did not return with change, and the visitor was too polite to search her out and demand it. "I learned something-this tipping is a very confusing custom," Mrs. Otani concluded ruefully...
...their title." Agrees Dutch Camera Distributor Peter Peperzak, 45, a four-time visitor to the U.S.: "The Americans are so open. You know immediately what they are. I like that, but sometimes it can be too much." The Wrights' happiest memory was of a helpful waitress in New York, but they felt that their long bus excursion had been partially spoiled by disagreeable drivers. "Maybe a bus driver's life is unpleasant," says Denise, "but on the buses it's like you are a pest come to annoy them...