Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attentive waitress presents the evening's menu on a small chalkboard, but the several choices don't appear to vary much from night to night...
...also exotically furnished), the chances are excellent that you will shortly find yourself racing penniless through a rainstorm, trying to cope with a suicide attempt and a subway-fare increase, the consequences of a broken cash register at distracted John Heard's Terminal Bar and a cocktail waitress (Teri Garr) who is woeful in her work and sleeps in a bed surrounded by rattraps. But that is only the beginning of Paul's After Hours adventures. He has yet to escape a Mohawk haircut at the Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated...
More often, as Tyler adroitly stages events, Macon finds himself in a screwball farce. His leg fracture occurs when his cat gets stuck in a clothes dryer; his excited dog jumps on him, and he falls down the basement stairs while going to the rescue. A waitress insists that he check his crutches. Leaving the restaurant, he feels unexplainably crippled, "nearly doubled, his chin sunk low on his chest and his elbows jutting out awkwardly like the wings of a baby bird." It seems appropriate that he should look the way he feels, until an old woman points out that...
...clipped to death by his own power mower. A neighbor has his mind blown by a malfunctioning Walkman, and a waitress is carved up by a knife. Oh well, such is suburbia according to Novelist Stephen King's Overdrive, now filming in North Carolina. The story of everyday machines turning against their human masters marks the directorial debut of King, 37, who quickly learned that filmmaking "is not like writing. You always have a lot of people in your face here." Still, the protean horrorsmith would not have missed a chance to go behind the camera. After all, eleven...
Dour, deliberate and repressed residents, both Lutheran and Roman Catholic, suffer dangerous guilt complexes. Just as the middle Olson boy reaches out to examine the medallion between the breasts of a sultry waitress from Mom and Dad's Cafe, Lake Wobegon's four-story grain elevator explodes, showering the town with chunks of timber...