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Since graduating from Yale Foster has won andOscar for Best Actress for her 1988 portrayal ofthe raped cocktail waitress in The Accused.In 1976, she was nominated for an Oscar for herdepiction of a child prostitute in TaxiDriver...
...years, the barmaid served drinks in a Delaware pub, putting away her tips. The trucker repaved asphalt highways in New Jersey. Not exactly the easiest ways to cover the expenses of a world-class figure-skating pair, but for Calla Urbanski (the waitress) and Rocky Marval (the trucker), those jobs paved the path to Albertville. Urbanski, 30, and Marval, 26, had both skated competitively for a decade without ever notching a major victory. Two years ago, they dropped longtime partners and teamed up with each other for one last shot at the Olympics. It clicked: their erratic skating began rising...
...impossible to land a good job. "I'm beginning to think it wasn't the best financial decision to go to law school," says Kathy Woods, who is still seeking work after graduating from the University of California's Hastings law school last spring. "I was a waitress over Christmas," she says. Laments a jobless graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service who has lived at home since he left school last May: "Of the 30 or so people I graduated with and am closest to, I know of just three who have professional jobs. Others are receptionists...
There is somebody like Dolly Jester in every service industry. She's the career waitress, who at 62 has varicose veins, a bad back, a sagging body and an infinite amount of wisdom. She's the one who tells you to study hard when you go back to school so that you don't end up like her. Whenever I think of Dolly, I head straight...
This long opening riff is fine and engaging, comparable to the best passages -- fictional or otherwise -- that Mailer has ever written. Harry's narrative sails forward on a river of Scotch, melodrama, sex, paranoia and typically Mailerian metaphysics (Harry knows why his waitress-girlfriend was so pleasant to him the first time she worked his table: "She saw money coming in all kinds of emotional flavors. It took happy money to buy a dependable appliance"). At the end of all these pyrotechnical effects, which include a persuasively real ghost in Harry's basement, the hero has achieved some pressing problems...