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...press junket was for the opening of the new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts and it was being held for members, sustaining members, contributing members, patrons, benefactors, papal nuncios, photographers, brie-eaters, and people from Weston. The Intern and the Foreign Car Driver had to come in early through a back door and were talking to some models from Filene's who were hired, to stand perfectly still, like mannequins, throughout the new wing to advertise the latest fashions. One woman was wearing the latest in sweatsuit technology, complete with gamma ray sunglasses. The rest were attired...
...debut of Julie Andrews. "Clearly they perceive the film first as the baring of my wife's breasts and second as a comedy," he protests. Paramount scrapped the campaign when Edwards threatened to remove the scene. Next, he tangled with the studio over the cost of a press junket, finally paying the $110,000 tab himself. "I want to tell you that various people are repeating lines right out of the script," he cries. "It is life imitating art. Every day, by phone or telex, they validate...
...Middle East policy. Moreover, they pointed out that Kissinger's own status in the Reagan camp has never been defined, and the notion that he was "representing" the President-elect could cause confusion abroad. All in all, they would have been happier if Kissinger had skipped the junket-or at least seen more of the pyramids and less of the press...
Makarova's venture is being backed (at an estimated cost of more than $250,000 a week) by James M. Nederlander, head of his family's large theatrical organization. Present plans call for a U.S. tour in the spring and a possible European junket after that. Makarova wanted to be artistic director of the American Ballet Theater, her main performing base since she defected from the Soviet Union ten years ago, but lost that post to fellow Emigré Mikhail Baryshnikov. Her new venture not only gives her control over a company but allows her to choose roles...
...with turquoise trim, took off from Auckland Airport. Coddled by a solicitous crew of 20, the 237 passengers settled down to a hefty breakfast as they began an exotic aerial voyage: an eleven-hour, 7,189-mile flight over the savage, frozen scenery of Antarctica. The $365 tourist junket, of a kind that has become popular in Australia and New Zealand in recent years, had been advertised as "a voyage to the end of the world...