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...LAP OF LUXURY Even in the low-budget haven that is Southeast Asia, grimy Siem Reap is exceptional in its appeal to backpackers: it's easy to live on the cheap as you explore Angkor Wat. Yet within a five-minute walk from an unpaved alley of $2-a-room guesthouses, the elaborate Grand Hotel d'Angkor offers its top digs for?are you sitting down??$1,900 a night. The hotel has two 400-sq-m villas that come with everything a Hollywood star or head of state might want: two bedrooms with marble bathrooms, linens of Khmer silk...
...just one week to live, how would you spend the time? Would you surround yourself with relatives and loved ones? Or maybe pass your final days in a dark movie theater, reclining in your stadium-style seat, soda in one hand, Raisinets in the other and popcorn in your lap? Well, probably not the latter. But if, by some chance, there is someone out there who would indeed opt for a cinematic finale, then please pass over Life Or Something Like It—and not just because its subject matter would hit too close to home...
...California for the summer,” explains Mira. “I was auditioning for things, and I almost got a couple of big movies. When I didn’t get them, I was so disappointed, and as I was swimming laps in the pool, I thought to myself, ‘I’m going to get the next one, I’m going to get the next one.’ I was doing 50 laps, and between 20 and 30 I thought, ‘I’ll take a semester...
...whom Vidor fired and replaced with McKinney - couldn't have sold sexuality, with all its lures, all its destructiveness, the way Nina did. Before deserting Zeke for the last time, Chick douses his suspicions of her infidelity by walking toward him and purring, "Let cha baby sit on yo' lap and make ya feel so good." She takes a heavy breath before the word "feel", which she gives an extra erotic syllable. She perches on him, humming him senseless with "St. Louis Woman," then sashays off for her rendezvous with comeuppance. At her death, her huge eyes still glow...
...lawyers] treated it like a joke but they wanted it to be treated like a joke,” she says. “One of King’s lawyers said ‘even if King had written this book with my book on his lap, it wouldn’t have been plagiarism...