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LOS ANGELES - Actress Lorna Thayer, the waitress who memorably refused to let Jack Nicholson order toast in the 1970 movie "Five Easy Pieces," has died. She was 85. Thayer died June 4 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home in Woodland Hills after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Her career spanned 40 years during which she appeared in more than 40 motion pictures and had dozens of guest roles on television shows. Most of her work, however, was bit parts. She often was cast in movies credited only as "flower vendor," "warden" or "suntan lady," although...