Word: owner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fashion families Versace and Ferragamo have hit upon hotels as brand extensions, while Island Records founder Chris Blackwell's laid-back Island Outpost retreats in the Caribbean have become destinations in their own right. With help from pals Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz, Andre Balazs, the owner of Los Angeles' fabled Chateau Marmont, recently added the Standard, a retro-kitsch palace for young, hard-partying hipsters, complete with inflatable sofas and an AstroTurf pool deck. Balazs hopes to create a chain of anti-Best Westerns...
...have heard of Eddie Gaedel. At 3'7, he is the shortest person ever to play in a major-league game. In a stunt in 1951, Bill Veeck, owner of the St. Louis Browns, sent Gaedel to bat. He instructed Gaedel to stand at the plate and not swing and Gaedel promptly walked on four pitches...
...Music Hall was in such a state of desuetude that at some performances less than 10% of the seats in the immense auditorium were filled. Hardy had a potent ally in his effort to yank the Davis painting back from MOMA. Jerry I. Speyer, the manager and co-owner of Rockefeller Center, is vice chairman of the museum's board...
...Some would hesitate to even call graffiti art--the law treats anything painted on a surface without the owner's permission as vandalism. But other members of the art world see a strange beauty in walls and doors scarred by markers and spray paint. The curators of the Trustman Gallery of Simmons College, near the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, have even had the good sense to devote an exhibtion to tag art: Graffiti is running through the end of the month...
...certain degree of delicacy highly attractive in a man. But in Hugh Grant this delicacy is taken to an almost absurd level, and it quickly becomes a defining motif of almost all of his films. Notting Hill, Grant's first feature of the summer, is no exception. As bookstore owner William Thacker, Grant revels in his characters inability to get anything in order, whether it's his business, his love life or his housing situation. Enter Julia Roberts as the hopelessly flaky and confused American superstar Anna Scott, and you have a match made in heaven. Watching these two lost...