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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...NAIVE YOUTH, I went to parties for the free alcohol, the food, the networking and the vague hope of finding a woman willing to give it up. I used to?and this is embarrassing to admit?turn down the gift bag. That's right: I'd walk out the door, waving my hand in a superior, negative gesture, somehow hoping that it would make me look cool, that the publicists would think I really cared about them and their event, which was important because they were women with things to give up. Besides, I figured the gift bags were full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Give | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...gift bag, always a staple of weddings and kids' parties, got a shot of steroids in 2001 when the Oscars started handing out bags of really pricey stuff to presenters. When the red carpet became a well-covered event unto itself, clothing and jewelry designers figured out that they got more attention by lending items to nominees than they did by paying for a prohibitively expensive Oscars commercial. Inadvertently, In Style magazine had created a black market for celebrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Give | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...scented candles demanded a way in. Back in 2000, Los Angeles' Distinctive Assets (DA), the largest awards-show gifting firm, had trouble persuading companies not only to donate free stuff to celebrities but also to pay DA for the privilege. For this year's MTV Video Music Awards show bag, MTV set the minimum at $250 a gift. Distinctive Assets' 2005 Grammy bag was worth $30,000 and included free LASIK surgery, a membership at Sports Club/LA and a weekend at the Valhalla Shooting Club. The company even custom-builds some bags: an extra gift for a huge star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Give | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...gift bag has trickled down to every local charity function, and Distinctive Assets is constantly asked to do bar mitzvahs, weddings and dinner parties, which they sometimes will as a favor to a big client or celebrity. Madison & Mulholland, a gift-bag company in New York City, even produces bags several times a year for United Airlines' first-class passengers and the Hampton Jitney, which is a commuter bus between Manhattan and Long Island, N.Y. ?People who go out to the Hamptons are trendsetters,? says Jane Ubell-Meyer, who founded Madison & Mulholland four years ago. We will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Give | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...supplied. Krug will even throw in three bottles of its Grand Cuv?e to help get the party started?and with a trunk like this, how could one fail to make an entrance? It certainly beats showing up with half a dozen cans of beer in a plastic supermarket bag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Trunk Call | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

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