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PEOPLE, Page 71Guess Who's Busing Tables?
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
Interested in making your life story more marketable to
Hollywood movie producers? Here are some suggestions: 1) join
the Mob; 2) become the focus of a lurid tabloid scandal; 3)
infiltrate a bastion of patrician civility and reveal the ugly
prejudices of the very wealthy. The last worked wonders for
LAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM, a successful New York City attorney.
Graham, 30 and black, wanted to find out what kind of racial
attitudes really prevail inside the white-picket-fence world of
suburban country clubs. So he dropped Harvard Law from his
resume and landed a job as a busboy at Connecticut's
insufferably swank Greenwich Country Club. After a 12-day stint
refilling popcorn bowls for the rich and racially insensitive
(overheard during a conversation about nanny selection: "If you
ever have to choose between a Negro and one of these Spanish
people, always go for the Negro"), he told all in a New York
magazine cover story, and the studios came running. Warner Bros.
won the rights to Graham's story. Denzel Washington will
probably take on the lawyer-busboy role. Says Graham: "I went
out on a limb with this because I knew it would upset people."