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...their more adventurous dishes like the surprisingly good lobster quesadilla, and landubbers can dig into several decent pasta dishes as well. Good-old-boy memorabilia dot the dark wood walls and makes the place feel like a final club. For a more laid-back atmosphere and the same high-end menu, sit in the saloon downstairs...
...standard with a guy in a gorilla suit who not only sings and dances but bears balloons, candy and champagne. The classic chickengram is another option. Broadway Babies’ animal line generally runs $105-130. Also available: singing celebrity impersonators. Choose between Marilyn Monroe, Elvis and Pavarotti. These high-end telegrams cost about $200, plus tip. All this assumes, of course, that the gorilla guy can make his housecall sans keycard...
...Italy for tanning and are reimported as handbags and wallets. "This nation's alligator farmers are hurting bad," moaned Ted Joanen, chairman of the American Alligator Council. He needn't have worried: the USTR went after handbags and wallets with "outer surface of sheeting of plastics." But that outraged high-end department stores such as Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus...
Much of the Big Three's luxury lag has to do with changing consumer tastes. The high-end market has detoured dramatically from the posh, living-room-on-wheels tradition of Cadillacs and Lincolns that once defined upper-middle-class status. Today's luxury buyers, guided by the Information Age, are less extravagant, more practical and technologically sharper. "The status symbol used to be 'I've got money,'" says Jim Press, general manager of Toyota Motor Sales USA. "But here in the late 1990s, it's 'I've got good taste.' The days of conspicuous consumption are gone...
...laughs an unmistakable laugh--a Lucianne laugh, which begins as a moist chortle and inevitably escalates into an alarming smoker's cough before it subsides to a husky, satisfied sigh. This is how it goes during an evening with Lucianne Goldberg: martinis and heaps of red meat, high-end gossip and lots of cigarettes. And laughter--a great deal of laughter. With the scandal she midwifed and nurtured moving to an even bigger stage, Lucianne is determined to enjoy herself...