Word: limo
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...chatted with the group in the parking lot as they waited for their limo to take them home. I discovered that they were not as raw as they had been made to seem. In fact, they had been going five years and had been previously signed to the record label run by.... Michael Jackson! But they had left Michael because after his initial gush of enthusiasm, they felt neglected...
...purest of Hollywood art forms, the pitch: This parking lot encounter had been preordained. The movie "Traffic" had won four Oscars that night - and here I was standing with one of the co-founders of the legendary rock group Traffic! (This was a stretch, and one of 12-seater-limo proportions!) Her final statement would win the Oscar for Outstanding Publicity Pitch (While Being Upstanding... Barely.) She proceeded to tell me that Hanson, the group I had just seen entering Spago, had just been determined to be Big Fans of Dave Mason and Traffic. (An influence I freely confess that...
...between entrepreneurs--dotcom and otherwise--and the artists, community activists and working people, many of them Latinos, who have lived there for decades. Increasingly, standard-issue low riders and banged-up Toyotas are being edged out by Volvos and SUVs. Over on Mission Street, Foreign Cinema, a limo-flanked, chichi restaurant that opened up right across the street from La Taqueria, legendary purveyor of my favorite cheap burrito, has become the latest target of neighborhood rage. And in nearby Noe Valley, the rundown Victorian duplex where I rented a two-bedroom for $600 a month sold last year...
William Fugazy, a friend of Mario Cuomo's, was known as the limo king of New York until he landed in bankruptcy court in 1997. Convicted of hiding $75 million from creditors, he was sentenced to two years' probation. Justice rejected his petition last year because guidelines require applicants to wait for five years after conviction. Clinton ignored the guidelines...
...party raged on I wandered to the exit and accidentally found myself in the limousine line. I watched as satin-jacketed valets summoned stretch limos by number. Then, when these surrealistically elongated vehicles arrived, they would bellow out the name of the chief passenger. I felt rather underdressed in this line, not least since I had no limo, and I didn't think my car would arrive on its own however loudly it was called. Not having a limo at a Grammys party I realized, made me a member of the 1 percent. I slipped away quietly into the night...