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...horrors of Nixon's Vietnam War strategy hit Hanks while he was working as a bellman for the Oakland Hilton in the mid-'70s. He was often tasked with shuttling guests to and from the nearby airport. Back then he saw the charter planes that periodically arrived filled with frightened Vietnamese orphans escaping totalitarianism. Once Hanks' movie career took off with Big (1988), he desperately wanted to make a first-class Vietnam War film. But by then, a second wave of Vietnam movies was in full swing (Full Metal Jacket and Good Morning, Vietnam came...
...rises, the frayed spirits of Las Vegas have risen too, at least a little. "You see it on the freeway - its stature is just ridiculous," says Marc Beltran, 24, who just got hired as a front-service bellman. "It's one of the nicest hotels, not only in Las Vegas but in the country, if not the world. Regardless of the rough economy, I think we'll still be successful...
...each journey. When he arrives--friendless and unannounced--his strategy for expanding his network frequently consists of walking up to people, saying hello and starting to talk about basketball in his train-wreck sentences. More often than not, they talk back. In Kazakhstan, a conversation with a hotel bellman led to the discovery of three raw but promising players at a club team. "Tony talks a lot, and that gets him into these places," says the Pistons' Hammond. "But he's also a very bright guy, and that shows up once he's inside...
RUNNER-UP: Through the Shopping Glass: A Century of New York Christmas Windows by Sheryll Bellman (Rizzoli; $35) Browse through some 70 holiday tableaux in this pretty (though too small) book. The displays are artful, kitschy...
...middle of last spring's hectic reading period and exams, FOP director Beth Bellman left Harvard for Iowa to pursue a Ph.D. in social psychology. The FOP student steering committee and the Freshman's Dean Office scrambled to locate a replacement...