US Forces Assassinate bin Laden and Jack Bauer Would Have Been Thrilled
There couldn’t have been a more apropos blending of fact and fiction on Sunday night as the astonishing news broke that U.S. Special Forces had assassinated Osama bin Laden nearly 10 years after the devastating attacks he ordered on September 11, 2001 that forever changed the world. I happened to be catching up on season two of “24,” the part where a nuclear bomb has gone off in Los Angeles and Jack Bauer is on a...
What to Get the Couple Who Has Everything: How About a Charitable Donation, Or Some Priceless Perfume?
You wouldn’t dare attend a wedding without sending a gift, but you’ve got to hand it to Prince William and Kate Middleton, whose nuptials on Friday will be attended by less than 2,000 people but watched by untold millions around the globe. The royal couple has requested that donations in honor of their matrimony be made into a fund that will support 26 charities in Commonwealth countries from Kenya to Canada, although...
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...
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