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...button in your room at the Peninsula in Hong Kong, and a softly lit path helps you find the bathroom. If someone rings while you're caught short, don't worry - the telephone digitally filters out the sound of running water and bathroom echoes. TECHIE JEEVES At the Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur, an "IT butler" gives advice on everything from crashed software to the in-room sound system. At Singapore's Grand Hyatt, the butler is virtual - you do all your ordering of new towels and other services through TV commands. MOBILE HELP Restaurants at the Tokyo and Otaru Hiltons...
...Superman; calling Kaufman Clark Kent would be something of a stretch. For anyone who’s seen Kaufman’s 2002 meta masterpiece Adaptation, though, the resemblance can’t be denied. Here, in a sunlit conference room on the second floor of the Boston Ritz-Carlton, is living evidence that Cage was nearly perfect in his on-screen portrayal of that self-referential script’s author. Kaufman has the same quietly intense air as his film double, leans over in the same way to burst out with a self-deprecating jab or an enthusiastic...
...TOUCH...NOT Lots of people go to Bali for vacation. A few even get sent there for business. And if they are really lucky, they get to stay at the Ritz-Carlton resort. Now that the hotel has wi-fi in its conference room, business users can get more work done before they venture into...
...that trains chimps for Hollywood. Trainers, she says, repeatedly kicked, punched and beat chimps with hammers to make them obedient. Nonsense, says Sid Yost, owner of Amazing Animal Actors, which rents out chimps for TV productions. His chimps, he says, are "affection trained" and "live like at the Ritz-Carlton." And they probably look great in tuxedos. --By Margot Roosevelt
...joint six-night, eight-day Hong Kong and Lion City package for as low as $1,098. China Airlines has a three-night two-for-one special from the U.S. West Coast starting at $949. The special promotions appear to be working. Most upper-end hotels, like the Ritz-Carlton and the Island Shangri-La, are reporting more than four out of five rooms booked. "Just look at the lobbies," says a relieved Mark Lettinbichler, chairman of the Hong Kong Hotel Association...