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...were married in a traditional Jewish ceremony at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City. Tova said that many of their mutual friends flew out from Harvard to attend...
...book Packaging Girlhood. The not-so-subtle pressures of this marketing can damage self-esteem and feed worries about body image and appearance later in life, the sisters say. They also link it to a celebrity-obsessed culture that undermines adult women by glorifying glamour figures like Paris Hilton while neglecting those women engaged in more serious pursuits. (See the worst business deals...
...position to argue with an out-of-body Emeril experience, so he got off his couch in Los Angeles and enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. He worked his way up to chef de cuisine at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton and got fired as chef at Rocksugar, the Cheesecake Factory's attempt at Asian street food, before he found his calling in a kitchen on wheels.(See pictures of food truck meals...
...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...
...contagious," said an underage drinker - you could tell by the giant X's drawn on their hands - between shots of Southern Comfort. "Any time there's less government, there's more freedom." And there were rumors of and invitations to after-parties in various hotel rooms from the Washington Hilton to the home base at the Wardman...