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...publish a small, photocopied newspaper called Film Times, sell subscriptions to the major studios for $50,000 a year and fill the page with lots of quotes from me and people with names like Roger Ebert and Richard Corliss. Unfortunately, when I ran my plan by Roger Ebert, the owner of a sign company in Lewisville, N.C., he declined. "I wouldn't have time to fool with that right now," he said. When I asked if I could use that quote, he said, "Yes," and hung up. Thus my first issue contains this review for Evolution: YES! YES! YES!--ROGER...
...puts people in a romantic mood," explains Pig 'N Whistle co-owner Chris Breed, who wants to double the number of fourposter beds because of the enthusiastic response. "Customers kick back, have a nice meal and become very intimate with each other." The seductive dining usually doesn't go beyond nuzzling and kissing. But for a $300 to $500 tab (in contrast to the usual "bed menu" of $75), you can stretch out with your dinner date all night long. Or at least until closing time...
...Generally, old is bad, and antique is good," observes part-owner Cathy Bedor. "And this hotel is one of a few exquisite properties in the country that made it over the hump of being old to become antique." Bedor admits the hotel's reputation was shot by the time she and her partners bought it but says, "Guests were longing to have any excuse to come back." Many since have--along with new ones, attracted by affordable packages celebrating music, history, dance, sports, holidays and food...
...bathe whenever they want and laugh to their heart's content. They can book at the last minute, stay for just a day or two and find many programs designed just for children. The hotel, rated four-star by Mobil, still delivers on the best of its original owner's dream--that it "should present a home-like and wholesome simplicity...inviting the traveler to rest a while, shut in from the busy world outside...
Located on 26 acres of the Coronado peninsula in San Diego Bay, the hotel has been the setting for more than 30 movies and television shows. It was home away from home to 10 Presidents and countless celebrities. But when its last private owner died in the early '90s, it began to slip into obscurity...