From 1965 through 1981, the Park Avenue South restaurant and nightclub welcomed personalities from Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith to Debbie Harry (now better known as the frontwoman of Blondie, she also worked
there as a waitress).
Not exact matches
Those look exactly like the shoes that 75 % of bartenders and
waitresses wear... and
there's a reason we refer to them
as «work shoes.»
Johnson writes her character well enough, though the film's general dearth of women characters —
there are three, two of them serve mostly
as Mother figures (and, in Perabo's case,
as a hooker), and the other is a
waitress — is something I hope he takes note of.
The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works
as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward
as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly
there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a
waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works
as a
waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.
There's a nice, if caricatured, performance from Sarah Silverman
as Susan's fellow
waitress and best friend, Sheila, a blowzy, hard - drinking character who's loyal and grounded.
There are a couple of friends who work
as diner
waitresses together.
Indeed, with Ms. Swank having already inherited the mantle of Ralph Macchio
as The Next Karate Kid,
there's a sense of déjà vu when Maggie finds a practical application for Frankie's tutelage at her day - job
as a greasy - spoon
waitress.
There, she begins working
as a cocktail
waitress and then an assistant to a Hollywood insider, Dean Keith (Jeremy Strong, nice and sleazy), who soon has Molly running his weekly poker night out of the Cobra Club (a stand - in for the notorious Viper Room), complete with $ 10,000 buy - ins from a pool of hand - picked, high - profile names.
From this list,
there is no film to which I respond quite
as strongly
as Paul Thomas Anderson's extravagantly theatrical, mysterious and masterly drama Phantom Thread, which is of course dominated by Daniel Day - Lewis
as the imaginary couturier Reynolds Woodcock, who enters into an enigmatic romantic duel with his new muse, a German
waitress played by the sadly un-nominated Vicky Krieps.
But
there's more: Shelly was horribly and inexplicably murdered in November of 2006, and so
Waitress also serves
as her goodbye note to the world.
Most notably
there's A Fantastic Woman, directed by Sebastian Lelio and starring Daniela Vega
as a
waitress who moonlights
as a nightclub singer, grieving over the death of her older boyfriend; Vega is already being praised for her powerful performance, and the movie was one of the best reviewed of 2017.
We will never see that
waitress again, but
there is something about the way she carries both fetus and ancestress with her that is memorable
as Daniel goes about his job.
There are many good words that could describe Coyne's story of 28 - year - old Alex «Cat» Rucker, an alcoholic
waitress who fled her rural childhood home
as a teenager then returns to confront her family demons 10 years later, after her mother's suicide.
«I went around to see if could get a job
as cocktail
waitress, but
there was not a single retail or
waitress job.
There is almost always a charge for bread, so if you don't want bread (or rather, don't want to be charged for it) let your waiter /
waitress know
as soon
as you sit down so they don't bring it out automatically
as they normally do.
Bonds, who previously worked
as a
waitress and manager at Pizza Hut and for convenience stores, dedicated the rest of her life to protecting Appalachia and the people who live
there from the ravages of mountaintop removal mining.
A
waitress at an exclusive London club has been fired after attempting to take home a piece of lasagne that would have been her free lunch but that she hadn't eaten
as there was no time to take her lunch.
Though her social and male - oriented skills are wanting, Gina usually manages to portray her character and intelligence
as a
waitress because
there is no pressure to commit to anything more than dinner.
While common restaurant jobs (such
as waitressing, hosting, cleaning) are easy to stumble upon in the streets,
there are also several work abroad programs that can provide a secure seasonal or temporary job placement abroad.
There is no set education standard to work
as a cocktail
waitress, although employers want that cocktail
waitresses are at least high school graduates and possess some alcohol awareness.