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...evacuated 700 years before, and where their descendants live in pampered placidity. EVE is as advanced--smooth, sleek, white, egg-shaped, with glowing blue eyes--as WALL?E is clunky. When he sits next to her on a bench at sunset (he must also have seen Woody Allen's Manhattan) and tries to hold her sort-of hand, EVE rejects him. It's nothing personal; it's just that she has been programmed to find plant life on Earth. And in a shoe at home, lucky WALL?E has what she's looking...
...have to, since the competition is revving up new hotel designs too. Hotel Indigo, which InterContinental Hotel Group launched in 2004, is rolling out in Miami, St. Louis, Mo., and 12 other locations. NYLO, created in part by an executive from Starwood's W, hopes to trade on Manhattan coolness. Even familiar faces like Wyndham, Hyatt, Marriott's Courtyard and Hilton's Garden Inn are getting wired...
...even more interesting question, yet one less scrutinized in the news coverage, was, What kind of women get into this business and why? Luckily, pay cable was made to answer such puzzlers. hbo is adapting the novel Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl into a series by Darren Star, creator of Sex and the City. But Showtime is first into the sack, with the British comedy Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Mondays, 10:30 p.m. E.T.), which asks, What's a nice young girl like you doing in an oldest profession like this...
...realtors, says residential real estate sales to foreigners have doubled in the past 15 months. The uptick in foreign interest helps explain why New York City real estate prices are up 11% over last year in an otherwise tanking marketplace. "It's bucking the trend," says Moriarty of the Manhattan market. Foreigners "see it as a long-term investment. Part of it for them is owning a piece of New York...
Foreign companies were the buyers in four of the top 13 U.S. commercial real estate deals in 2007, according to Real Estate Alert newsletter. Another foreign acquisition of notable Manhattan real estate was the Dubai-based Jumeirah group's 2006 purchase of the Essex House on Central Park South...