Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waitress, Theresa, was extremely helpful and friendly, bringin out warm, dense bread and garbanzo bean/garlic tapenade almost immediately. The sangria-$13 for a large pitcher with an impressively low sangria-to-ice-cube ratio--disappeared almost as quickly as the bread...
Melvin's isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter (Greg Kinnear) who lives in the apartment next door, and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress (Helen Hunt) who serves him lunch every day. Melvin doesn't technically befriend either character. His first words to Simon, the painter, are bigoted and vicious, and all he wants from Carol the waitress is his bacon and eggs done right with as little small talk as possible...
...also in love. His wife Eva, a refugee herself, recalls their first meeting at a New Hampshire resort where they both worked in the summer of 1957--he as a busboy, she as a waitress. Eva recalls the encounter ("He had a bad accent, even though he doesn't think so!") as a lightning bolt: "I walked into this room, and there were a bunch of guys. One shook my hand, and it was, you know, like shaking a limp fish. But then there was this really good-looking guy who shook my hand, and I was just like...
Late in the film, Simon sees Carol stepping into the bathtub and is inspired to start sketching again. This drab waitress--she's so beautiful: "You're why cavemen chiseled on walls." Brooks insisted that the scene not be leering, because "these days the world is so damn foul. Before, it was, 'Tee-hee, there's a nude scene of Helen Hunt.' Now somebody freeze-frames it and sells T shirts." The actress (who had a topless love scene with Eric Stoltz in a poignant scene in the 1991 movie The Waterdance) needed no persuading. "I wanted some sense...
...generous Eddie can also be a troublesome one. In 1992 he was sued by a Redwood City, Calif., waitress who accused him of assaulting her at his home. (The suit was settled out of court.) Then last January, after a play-off loss to Green Bay, the 49ers owner allegedly punched a Packers fan outside Lambeau Field. DeBartolo was publicly reprimanded by the NFL and agreed to pay a $2,500 charitable donation to the Vince Lombardi Cancer Fund. For years DeBartolo and his family have been plagued by allegations of Mob ties, although law enforcers have never substantiated such...