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...Skiing at St. Moritz has been a sought-after winter break ever since, and spurred the expansion of Badrutt's little hostel into what is, four generations later, the regal Badrutt's Palace, the most exclusive, luxurious hotel in town. Past clientele include Aristotle Onassis, Brigitte Bardot and Alfred Hitchcock. Luckily, for the not-so-stupendously rich, prices drop by up to 20% for the late summer season, with double rooms at $266 per night. Continuously updated over the years, the labyrinthine 200-room hotel is an eclectic mix of architectural styles, so whether your tastes are grand, chic...
...Skiing at St. Moritz has been a sought-after winter break ever since, and spurred the expansion of Badrutt's little hostel into what is, four generations later, the regal Badrutt's Palace, the most exclusive, luxurious hotel in town. Past clientele include Aristotle Onassis, Brigitte Bardot and Alfred Hitchcock. Luckily, for the not-so-stupendously rich, prices drop by up to 20% for the late summer season, with double rooms at $266 per night. Continuously updated over the years, the labyrinthine 200-room hotel is an eclectic mix of architectural styles, so whether your tastes are grand, chic...
...Angeles. Though he specialized in adapting popular stage works such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Hello, Dolly! for movies in the 1960s, he achieved his greatest glory a decade earlier with the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis film Sweet Smell of Success and Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. Lehman never won an Oscar, but he became the first screenwriter ever awarded an honorary...
DIED. EVAN HUNTER, 78, author who, under the pen name Ed McBain, defined the genre of the gritty, graphic police procedural novel; of cancer of the larynx; in Weston, Conn. Under his real name, he wrote the acclaimed 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but none approached the popularity of his 87th Precinct series, which, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, followed the personal and professional lives of a team of utterly human cops solving brutal crimes and paved the way for countless crime writers and hit TV shows like Hill Street...
...Music and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he achieved his greatest glory the previous decade, when he used his background in publicity to craft two glorious Broadway vipers, J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) and Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), for the film Sweet Smell of Success, and wrote Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. In 2001 he became the first screenwriter to be awarded an honorary Oscar...