Word: waitressing
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...they can regain custody of their baby daughter from foster care. In another room, a family man prepares for an interview for a job beneath his skills and dignity while coping with his failing marriage. And in the motel's seen-better-days Riverside Grill, a pregnant, recently widowed waitress considers performing in porn films to earn enough to support her unborn child. Interspersed in and among those stories: a kidnapping, a suicide attempt, a heart attack and a woman who nearly gets buried alive...
...Dust,” follows the trials of Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a struggling Italian-American author who calls himself “a lover, equally fond of man and beast alike.” Don’t ask me what that means. Bandini meets a beautiful Mexican waitress, Camilla, played by Salma Hayek. The two fall madly in love, of course, but their relationships is hindered by fear from publicly expressing their interracial romance. Bandini constantly insults Camilla with racist retorts. But we soon realize that his insults are actually a reflection of his own anxieties of personal shortcoming...
...needs characters to animate it. That doesn't take long: strong-willed women keep showing up unbidden in his room, removing their clothes, tangling him in their sad fates. Vera (Idina Menzel), who loves Bandini's writing, needs someone to tend her wounds. Camilla (Salma Hayek), a Chicano waitress who can't read his words but has great body English, starts to lure Bandini away from his obsession with those beautiful golden-haired California girls...
...decided to pay her bill because “I was in shock and my waitress was standing there,” she said. “To be fair they were actually telling people not to pay. We had already been given our bill. I just wanted to make sure the waitress was tipped for taking care...
...relegated to the "twee" genre - music so light and self-referential that it almost shattered upon listening - of the late '80s. The surprise choice of Trevor Horn (the ex-Buggle who also produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood and t.A.T.u.) as producer on the last album, the brilliant Dear Catastrophe Waitress, was a play to reach beyond the sensitive librarian stereotype, even at the risk of alienating hard-core fans, some of whom are, actually, sensitive librarians. Hoffer challenged Murdoch to tighten his songs, and many of the tracks were played live in the studio. But beyond the influence...