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...time for lunch. The 18-day, hassle-free millennium package costs $75,000. Who's buying? "The percentage of travelers who are millionaires is staggering," says David M. Weber, managing director of two-year-old R. Crusoe & Son. His company has sold all 80 places on one millennium junket--around the world in 24 days through developing nations on private jet, at $44,950 (double occupancy)--and started on a second...
...Four Weddings and a Funeral) and director Roger Michell (Persuasion) allow to develop confidently, digressively. William, for example, finds himself obliged to pretend he's a journalist for a fox-hunting magazine interviewing all those connected with Anna's latest release, a horseless sci-fi epic, at a press junket. On another occasion, he's mistaken for the room-service waiter and patronized by her movie-star boyfriend (a funny, uncredited Alec Baldwin, trying hard for noblesse oblige and delightfully missing the note...
...suffers from stage fright. "It's anxiety and fear that create adrenaline, which for me is petrol," she explains. Worst of all, she says, is actually watching herself onscreen. She has never seen some of her movies, and only watched Shakespeare in Love to prepare for a U.S. press junket. "I'm very squeamish about it," she admits. "Once I see it, I regret what I've left undone. It's why I love the theater." Going to see the Bond films, though, is different. "Oh, yes!" she says, speaking in actressy italics, as she tends...
...Bech Is Back (1982). The five stories that make up this new installment of the saga show an older and grumpier Bech still worrying about his long bouts of writer's block and finding ways of getting away from his desk whenever he can. On a State Department-sponsored junket to communist Prague in the mid-1980s, Bech meets dissident Czech writers and begins to envy them for living in a place where literature is considered important enough to suppress...
...space race again. The world's first space-bound bureaucrat -- Yuri Baturin, a former security adviser to Boris Yeltsin -- blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Thursday, heading for a two-week stay aboard Mir. NASA, of course, has sent lawmakers into orbit; Senator Jake Garn took a junket on the Space Shuttle back before the Challenger disaster, and John Glenn heads off in the fall. But never has America put a presidential aide in space. Can this one fly? "We can teach anyone to become a cosmonaut as long as he's not an idiot," said...