# Waitress- RIP Adrienne Shelly

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 15, 2007, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waitress-rip-adrienne-shelly/430087 "2007-12-15T08:13:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waitress-rip-adrienne-shelly/430087/1 "2007-12-15T08:13:02Z")

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My gal asked me to pick up [Waitress](http://waitressmovie.net/) on the way home as a friend had recommended it. I enjoyed it quite a lot, it was quirky and kind of crazy. The feel of it was pretty unusual, a very stylized movie that somehow still seemed more “realistic” than a lot of Hollywood films. In any case I’m not really here to sing its’ praises or otherwise discuss the film.  
One of the waitresses in the film was an actress I recognized from Hal Hartley’s **The Unbelievable Truth**. I had a big crush on her back in the day, so when the film ended I looked her up on IMDB. To my surprise, she wrote the screenplay for **Waitress** while pregnant with her daughter, and also directed the film. This made me feel quite happy for her, as it seemed a project she could be proud of. Then I noticed that she had died in 2006, about 5 months before the movie was released. The cause of death was [homicide](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791248/bio).

So I know I’m over a year late, and I’m sure most of you are already aware, but I wanted to pay my respects to [Adrienne Shelly](http://waitressmovie.net/?page_id=21). I am feeling sad at having learned of her passing, and feel sad for her daughter having lost such a loving mother. Rest in peace.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waitress-rip-adrienne-shelly/430087/2 "2007-12-15T08:44:44Z")

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They did a [Law and Order](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Law_%26_Order_episodes_%28season_17%29) episode based on this story, called “Melting Pot”. Adrienne Shelly was a guest actress on the show once.

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**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2007, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waitress-rip-adrienne-shelly/430087/3 "2007-12-15T09:50:41Z")

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Here’s our [earlier thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=395836&highlight=adrienne+shelly) on this.