Word: chauffeur
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...went home expecting to be pampered, as usual. My mother would feed me all my favorite foods, drive me everywhere, and leave me alone when I needed to do work. But Fate conspired against me, sending my beloved mother-cum-chauffeur off to work for 90 hours a week and leaving a still-unlicensed 20-year-old stranded. Not only did her new job deprive me of a trustworthy ride; all of a sudden, dinner wasn’t being purchased, the dishes weren’t being washed, and trash wasn’t being taken...
...tough, noble P.I. was a natural for Hollywood. He has been played by Robert and George Montgomery, by James Garner and James Caan, but Bogie did it best in Howard Hawks' 1946 version of a novel whose plot was so labyrinthine, even Chandler couldn't say who killed the chauffeur. There's also Bogie's Baby, Lauren Bacall, as the distressing damsel, and a trunkload of noir atmospherics...
...designs, exploited through corporate tie-ups with half a dozen companies including General Electric, and emblazoned on posters, cups, plates, decals, and medallions, make him the grooviest thing going. He zaps about Manhattan with his blonde, beret-crowned wife in a decal-covered 1952 Rolls-Royce with a liveried chauffeur. What will he do for his U25 (under 25) audience, when the psychedelic fad fades? "Something like what I'm doing now, but more cosmological, a blending with outer space," explains Max. "But I don't want to bring out my ideas for the 1970s before the public...
...scandal. For example, there was J. Seward Jr.'s messy 1965 divorce, before which his wife had shot a private detective sent to monitor her extramarital trysts, not to mention the mishaps of Daughter Mary Lea, who once charged that her second husband had a homosexual affair with their chauffeur and plotted her murder. Then there were publicized allegations about a grandson injecting the family dog with heroin, and his brother planning to blow up a police station...
...General Motors. So let's say this: The man doesn't like sitting in the backseat, not in his personal life, certainly not as a businessman. Most mornings he drives himself to work in a Jeep Grand Cherokee, arriving at the office by 10:30. He can afford a chauffeur, of course, since he's worth an estimated $9 billion, a fortune built over a half-century of buying and selling assets from airlines to real estate, casinos, hotels, movie studios and automakers. Yet while many octogenarians may aspire to improve their golf score, Kerkorian keeps thinking big and shows...