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London leads the world in pricy hotel rooms, typically $192, but not in everything. A three-course dinner for four at a leading Paris restaurant will run $525. And drinks and entertainment at a Tokyo nightclub can produce a tab of $486 for four. Surprisingly, Lagos, Nigeria, is the world's fourth most expensive city to visit. The bill for a week's rental of a moderate-priced car there is $603, plus 83? per mile...
...stage and vaudeville star when she began her Hollywood career at 18, but her professional success was punctuated by repeated personal disasters, including recurring drinking bouts, fits of depression and failed marriages. Her book's popularity helped launch a final comeback ("My 94th," she quipped) that got her nightclub dates and Broadway and film roles...
...indeed visited Dish of Salt three times (once with Times Managing Editor Seymour Topping). As for its claim to be "an authentic and elegant Cantonese restaurant," she added: "It was just plain dreadful and very expensive. If you found that kind of Chinese food in a Las Vegas nightclub, you'd say, 'Well, for a Las Vegas nightclub, this is what I would expect.' I have had better chow mein at the Copacabana in the '40s." Mimi was also "very seriously thinking" of talking to her lawyers...
...worst part of the day was after dinner when the Spa provided a nightclub act which THEY were convinced was chosen specifically to irritate the hell out of them. Something was wrong with every show and they would start talking loudly while the act was on stage, only to be countered by noisy, wet "sssh"ing. Before long the comedian ("He's talking down to us." "Ssshhh") or the duo ("Her voice is too loud" "Sssshh") couldn't be heard at all. And that's when they started walking out. ("You can't hear these people...
...with American writer Clifford Bradshaw (Travis Epes) the day he arrives in Berlin. The two commence a life of charming self-deception: he fools himself and his family into thinking he is writing a novel that never materializes; she believes in the vacuous glamour of her role as a nightclub entertainer...