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...Billiard Club, which opened in August and takes in an estimated 1,500 customers on weekends, has a downstairs Safari Room, where players shoot pool amid zebra skins, mounted sailfish and a stuffed bobcat. In Boston, Jillian's Billiard Club has a private room, furnished as an English gentleman's library, that rents for $30 an hour. "It's becoming a glamour sport," observes Ed Irwin, a banker by day and a player by night...
...forces of commerce) is having an attitude. Enough with Sting's image as the politically correct artiste extraordinare who can rock out with the boys, jam with Black jazz musicians, do the classical thespian thing, father a host of love children and be just the eccentric country gentleman donating his time and energy to worthy causes. I mean, aren't we bohemian? Gimme a break...
Loos' most famous work is the novel, Gentleman Prefer Blondes, which she thought might amuse her friend H.L. Mencken. The fame of that book and the subsequent play made Loos wealthy and famous (she had nothing to do with the Marilyn Monroe version most of us are familar with, though she admired Monroe's performance) but it occasionally overshadows the truly impressive scope of Loos' achievement...
Such is vanity that Stern's clients sometimes have unrealistic visions of the sort of person they could reasonably expect to attract as a mate. "We had this gentleman, very bright but average looking, certainly no Tom Selleck, and he described someone who looked like Farrah Fawcett. Well, there's no way. Only a 10 can ask for a 10." That means compromise, as one of Stern's clients, whom we will call Lucy, quickly found. She was 37 and divorced and was after the sort of man who sets hearts pounding on L.A. Law. She was introduced to Nigel...
...noted that the Harvard club representatives who contacted him for the event were "the most polite people I've dealt with," while "one particular gentleman [from the Yale club] was sufficiently rude...