Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questions, the most predominant one being, quite simply, "Why?" Amos built her style and reputation around her unique and passionate keyboarding skills. Why are a lead guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer so necessary now? Was it to better showcase the songs off her latest album, from the choirgirl hotel, which does not contain as many all-acoustic songs as her previous albums have? Or is it precisely because Amos now wants to play in arenas like the Fleet Center, with its copious quantities of seats and t-shirt sales and the opportunity to play on an enormous stage with...
LOCATION Usually held in one of a succession of very posh hotels in North America and Europe. This year in June it was held at the Turnberry Hotel in Scotland, across the street from a top golf course...
...scene that played out two days later at a nearby hotel was a little less by the book. Flanked by armed guards, Christopher So, the man who led Los Angeles police to Markhasev, took center stage and pocketed a $100,000 reward for helping solve the case. The check was issued by the National Enquirer, which had posted the hefty reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Cosby's killer. For his payday, the tabloid had generously outfitted So in a baseball cap sporting the cheeky logo ENQUIRING MINDS...
These were the sorts of thoughts one had while sitting with Brown, Weinstein and Galotti last Thursday afternoon in the midtown Manhattan hotel room where they had been holed up taking phone calls and giving interviews since announcing their new venture the day before. With assistants and publicity folk fluttering about like bridal attendants, one had the feeling of being at the white-hot center of the world. If there is to be a culture clash between Brown and Galotti--both used to the bottomless largesse and stylish cool of Conde Nast--and the more profane, tightfisted world of Miramax...
DIED. KAY THOMPSON, in her 90s, entertainer and creator of the Plaza Hotel's most memorable guest, six-year-old Eloise; in New York City. Thompson was a successful nightclub performer who appeared as a Vreelandesque fashion editor in the movie Funny Face, but her most enduring character was Eloise, an irascible girl whose mischievous exploits while living in New York City's Plaza Hotel Thompson first chronicled in a 1955 book. Originally targeted for adults but beloved by children ever since, Eloise starred in three more best-selling books and a line of merchandise...