NAME: Lou D’Agastino - FC: Bill Murray - AGE: 65
OCCUPATION: Owner of Lou’s Diner - SEXUALITY: Straight
Lou was the type of man who felt like he’d always fallen through the cracks. He was the middle child of three boys and compared to them felt like he hadn’t really amounted to much. His older brother John would fight and die in the Korean War. His younger brother Bertie, short for Albert, was killed when a semi-truck veered in to his lane, hitting his vehicle sending it off the side of a highway overpass. Bertie was only 23 at the time. The D’Agastino family noticed the loss of John and Bertie but Lou’s life seemed to remain insignificant.
As a result, Lou started dabbling in drugs and drinking during his teen years. He would party quite a lot but still he had enough sense to go to school and get a degree in business. He wanted his own place, something that was all his and in 1975, at the age of 25, Lou would rent a building he would one day own. Lou’s Diner was a culmination – the man loved to cook and he wanted to prove he was capable of making it without his family. They never came to the grand opening and even though he invited them to celebrate with him on the first year anniversary again they didn’t bother.
As the years went on Lou’s drug and alcohol consumption would nearly wreck him. He was throwing his money away left and right on both drugs and women and a series of events would end up straightening the man out. First, he’d gotten horribly drunk one night and pretty much wrapped his car around a telephone pole. Hospitalized he’d left the diner in the hands of his cook at the time and when he was finally able to return to work the man had swindled quite a bit of money from him. Charges were pressed the man was sent to prison but the restitution he owed would take a life time to pay back. He’d used prostitutes every so often, especially when he was partying and there was one in particular that he’d seen on numerous occasions. He remembered her clearly from years before but when she invited him to go back to her place he was shocked to see she had a son that was just the right age to date back to their first encounter.
The idea that Lou was a father all those years and hadn’t known it threw his life back in to gear. Nearly losing his life, the restaurant and all he held dear Lou D’Agastino set out on the journey of sobriety. Even though he had goals it was a long and bumpy road, but a few relapses aside he was getting his head back in the game and his life back on track. That was until he’d put up a sign in the window that he was hiring a new dishwasher and a 15 year old gangly looking boy strolled in to apply. He was the son of the prostitute. Fearing the knowledge that he was possibly the kid’s father Lou did what he felt best for him and gave him a job.
Since 1975 Lou’s Diner has grown in to a local staple. The place has many regular customers, some of which have been coming for the greasy All-American fare since the doors opened. His establishment is now famous city-wide for its coffee and cheesy fries. He has a pretty good staff at present and has worked with the prison board in the past to help newly released inmates since he was able to make so many connections when his old cook was arrested. Lou is not always a quiet man but he has now been sober for the last 11 years. He’s well aware of his current cook’s back door sales and the only reason he hasn’t stopped him is because he’s worried the kid will get himself in to a lot worse if he were selling elsewhere.
Brett Collins: Hired at the age of 15, Lou has a sinking suspicion he is Brett’s biological father. Fear has prevented Lou from ever saying anything though over the years he’s seen so many things in common with the young man. He sobered up for Brett’s sake and has acted fatherly toward him taking on that same attitude with the rest of the staff so Brett doesn’t think he’s treated differently. Lou knows it has been cowardly to not tell the boy but what Brett doesn’t know is he’s been trying to groom him to one day take over the diner and has even changed his will making sure Brett and his sister Zaniah inherit the place. He’s kept an eye on both of them since she also has no idea who her father is.
Paul Brady: Paul is a handful but the kid is a good cook and Brett’s best friend. He turns a relative blind eye to Paul selling drugs out the back door of the diner and because of that Paul has stayed close making Lou’s life easier given he and Brett now share a place. Paul is a big flirt too and that actually brings in a lot of business. He brings and energy to the diner that Lou enjoys and he treats Paul like a son as well, minus inclusion in the will.
Brownie Collins: Brownie has come in to the diner many times and never seems to put together the facts. If she has the woman has said nothing and even though Lou does not like to preach to people about sobriety it pains him to see her loaded most times she visits. Lou knows he should have a conversation with her but their time together was short and he did pay her for sex. Some days when the woman comes in she doesn’t even seem to remember him and for Brett’s sake he always makes sure she is fed – even if that means sending him with food to take home for her.
The role of Lou D’Agastino is TAKEN.
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