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White House Counselor to the President Dan Bartlett calls Gottesman "a walking mood ring," the unquestioned authority on whom the President wants in his limo, what member of Congress he may accept in his office on Air Force One and whether it is wise for a top aide to bring up a particular topic at a particular time. "Blake is so humble and professional that advisers much older than he rely on his advice instead of resenting him," says Reed Dickens, 28, who has filled in for Gottesman...
...were gypsies, Sooni and I. two sisters in saris surrounded by tuxedoed strangers. But instead of taking our Banjara bullock cart to the nearest water hole, we were in a limo en route to the Oscars, where our first film, Salaam Bombay!, was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film. It was 1989, before private media exploded in India, before the government even recognized filmmaking as a legitimate industry. Armed with just good wishes and some telegrams from family and friends, we spent a riotous few days in the luxury of the Beverly Wilshire, being taken to lunch by Billy Wilder...
...Watching The Simpsons in the limo...
...surcharge on air deliveries from 12% to 13.5%. Even local pizza parlors, which have been adding a dollar or two to the bill, will reach the push-back point if the upward trend continues. "The pain at the pump this summer is going to be on truckers, taxi drivers, limo drivers, airlines, shipping companies. The question is, Do they pass it on?" says Joe Stanislaw, an independent energy adviser for clients of Deloitte & Touche...
...Well, why wait? Now you can just pay to be admitted. The French company Soirée de Star provides the kinds of experience usually reserved for Kate Moss, Brad Pitt and their A-list cohorts: head to a premiere, paparazzi in pursuit; then step out of a stretch limo onto a red carpet to pose between beefy bodyguards as snappers jostle for position and an adoring press pack asks you to tell them how you came to be quite so fabulous. Anyone can stage their night as a notable with Soirée de Star's celebrity-status package...