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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...right about here that Payne gets nervous that he's coming across as a wine snob. His Midwestern self is suspicious of phony behavior. In Sideways, a waitress reads a special that includes "root vegetable foulon and wasabi whipped potatoes." No one in the film knows what foulon means. That's because Payne made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: He's Got Good Taste | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...more to the story, though. When Ellroy was ten, his mother was murdered and her body dumped in a ditch. A few years later his dad died too, of natural causes. His last words to his son were “try to pick up every waitress that serves...

Author: By Joe L. Dimento, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ellroy Shows Life’s Gritty Details | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...growers or whale watchers. In a close race a group that large has to be sliced into identifiable targets, so that both sides can pick the most promising women to woo--old or young, married or single, the populists, the small-business owners, the social conservatives, the libertarians, the waitress moms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...Sandler remake of The Longest Yard, Nelly took along a strike ball, a spare ball, customized shoes, a wrist brace and a sweat rag. "I need all the equipment," he said, before ordering mozzarella sticks, French fries, ranch dressing and several ice-filled buckets of Corona from an alley waitress. "You never know when you'll get a chance to roll, and you should never waste a chance to have a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rapper Who Likes Bowling | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...acquired a degree in bassoon from the University of Michigan. He began writing jingles and catchy versions of classical compositions. Then came the big break: Davis co-wrote a jingle for a bread company chronicling a fictional long-haul trucker named C.W. McCall and his main squeeze Mavis, a waitress at the "Old Home Filler-Up an' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe." The ad eventually became the theme song of Convoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Stoking the Steamroller | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

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