Would You Pay $30 to Rent a Movie–For Two Days? A Month Before Its DVD Release? Didn’t Think So.
Thursday was the first day of an experiment in home entertainment that is likely to fail, at least the pricing element of it. You probably know that box office receipts and sales and rentals of DVDs are way down—as much as 40%–so the movie studios are looking at other ways to maximize their profits. Some of them banded together with satellite provider DirecTV to launch premium video on demand. The first offering: the Adam...
For the Brunch Bunch, A New Venue to Dine, Drink and Relax on Sundays
Just in time for Easter, you can now add Scarpetta to the list of great places to have Sunday brunch. Chef Scott Conant’s Beverly Hills outpost in the Montage Hotel opened last fall, but brunch service is brand new– and a don’t miss. It’s a come-hungry and then pace-yourself-affair, because you will probably be initially overwhelmed by the cornucopia of culinary delights to tempt your taste buds set up in the...
A Better Way to Fly: All Aboard JetSuite
Cracked airliners got you down? You are in Los Angeles and you want to fly to Las Vegas, San Francisco, Phoenix or Santa Fe. So you buy a ticket on one of the low-cost carriers–perhaps even one prone to cracks in its fusilages–ponder whether it’s worth it to bring checked in luggage for that favorite bottle of wine you want to drink and get yourself to the airport early to go through the security lines. Then, since...
A New Model for Movie Ticket Pricing
CinemaCon is going on in Las Vegas right now. What’s that, you say–something like Comic Con in San Diego? No, it’s a confab formerly known as ShoWest put on by NATO. Not the NATO that is currently taking over the reins of our mission to bomb out Moammar Kadafi and his forces in Libya. NATO stands for National Association of Theater Owners, and boy, do those people have us by the you-know-whats. Their latest move:...
It’s the Year of Royalty: Designer Sue Wong’s Fall Collection Features Edwardian Embellishments
The inimitable Sue Wong eschewed runways again and presented her Fall 2011 collection, “My Fair Lady,” in a spectacular setting—her 1920s-era Los Feliz home known as the Cedars, which has a storied history. Built for an executive of MGM—which is why lions are a theme in the décor–it was once home to actress Norma Talmadge and temporary digs for Jimi Hendrix. Wong, who is known for her ultra-feminine beaded gowns, says the...
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