Word: bellboy
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Please Support Our Travelers. The travel industry is asking Congress and President Obama to stop slamming executives for traveling. The decrease in business travel, the industry says, hurts the local economy, down to the bellboy and hotel housekeeper who are laid-off due to decreased occupancy. A survey by the U.S. Travel Association says that 20% of companies (that have not received taxpayer assistance) have canceled events due to recent focus on boondoggles. Which means, lots of rooms open in Vegas...
...director, Lewis put on film some of the most complex comic constructions - The Ladies' Man's open, multi-story set, The Bellboy's plot-ignoring series of sight gags (with Jer as the unspeaking hotel employee) - since the early masterpieces of Buster Keaton. Where Lewis went wrong was in also trying to be Charlie Chaplin: laying on the ennobling sentiment, but with a trowel. What the movies lacked was an audience interlocutor; without a figure like Dean Martin, viewers could laugh at Jerry but not always root...
...wrong about Jerry Lewis and the French were right. In his 10-year run as Dean Martin's goony pal, Lewis was the master of extreme physical and verbal comedy. As the auteur and star of another decade's worth of prime movie farces, from the near wordless The Bellboy to the daft poignancy of The Nutty Professor (in a dual role as both himself and Dean), he bent the medium as smartly as he distorted his own body. This 10-film set deserves a Légion d'Honneur medal, or at least your grateful patronage...
PRINCELY DIGS I knew I was going to like the Souvannaphoum Hotel as soon as the rumpled bellboy showed me into its best suite and began pointing out its features. "There's no television," I said, as my eyes adjusted to the crepuscular gloom. "Correct, sir," he replied, beaming. Then he bid me a pleasant stay and turned on his heel, with nary a hint of the smarmy loitering or obsequious entreaties that generally accompany the importuning of tips in expensive hotels...
...prince's old bedroom, where he spent his twilight years reliving old glories and plotting who knows what intrigues under the watchful eye of the government, added to the Souvannaphoum's mildewy colonial charm. As did the chilled bottles of Beer Lao served up by the smiling bellboy...