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...shakers who retire to the understated salons of the Lowell. "Our guests are from the worlds of film, fashion, finance and publishing," says sales-and-marketing director Lynne Davis. "They stay here because it feels like a home away from home." Translation: it has great security. So does XV Beacon, where you need a coded key card to work the elevator...
...small luxury hotels are not necessarily new, and even if they are, the management would rather you thought they had been around forever. XV Beacon in Boston, for example, opened for New Year's 2000, yet because it is nestled among the cobblestones and brick Federal architecture of Beacon Hill, it would never occur to you before entering that each of its bathrooms sports a flat-screen Bloomberg News display. The 61-room hotel's only exterior signature is its gold nameplate: xv beacon. By contrast, the Soniat House in New Orleans is draped in its history: it was created...
...McKillop, director of corporate communications for J.P. Morgan in Asia, was enthralled when he heard that the hotel operator at the Lowell had intercepted an unwanted early wake-up by graciously asking a caller in Tokyo whether she realized it was 4:30 a.m. in New York City. XV Beacon supplied an interior decorator for a guest's new home in Boston. And in addition to room service from Wolfgang Puck, the Hotel Oceana in Santa Monica, Calif., offers a triweekly jump on the day with a 6 a.m. "run" with hotel general manager Seth Horowitz...
...From that little summary, you can probably surmise that there are about a good six original minutes to be carved out of Gladiator's sprawling two and a half-hour frame. A beacon of innovation and creativity the film is not. And yet, much like its revered progenitors, Gladiator works on such an impressive scale that it is able to overcome its dearth of originality. Ridley Scott has always enjoyed a somewhat undeserved reputation as a visual virtuoso (White Squall? GI Jane?), but this is one project in which his supposed visual prowess is on display full-force. Taking...
...Shiverick notes, a “caucus room.” Thus, business, charitable and social interests all merged into a giant Brahmin front at the turn of the century. That front, moving with the intention of regaining some control of the city, mobilized itself in the clubrooms of Beacon Street mansions. And the old boys’ network, still unassailable, was born...