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...wouldn't want to stay at a hotel where the smallest room is called the Playpen? Just ask Nicole Kidman, Jude Law or Adrien Brody, all of whom frequent Soho House, New York City's members-only hotel. Given its huge, funky rooms designed by onetime British Elle Decoration editor Ilse Crawford and unique services such as child care on weekends and private movie screenings, it's no surprise the hotel has starred in a Sex and the City episode. If the reported 500-plus waitlist is a turnoff, no need to leave the neighborhood: Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson...
While the Pixarians aren't really boys, they are guys (all the top creative types are male) who radiate a benign youthfulness. The company, with headquarters in Emeryville, Calif., outside San Francisco, is a giant playpen, a kind of Erector-set tree house. Games and gadgets clog the office of head Pixie John Lasseter, whose uniform is a blindingly gaudy Hawaiian shirt. Nemo's begetter, Andrew Stanton, 37, looks a dozen years younger and decades more innocent. He, Lasseter and the rest seem like boys in love with their computer toys...
...It’s fun. It’s like going to your playpen everyday,” she said. “Surgery is taking unsolved problems from the clinic and wrestling with them. You get over your frustration...
Besides, she had to consider her companion on these adventures. The windows of the Prius are just the right height for Morrissey's black Lab-mix, Cinders, to hang out her head and enjoy the breeze. And the backseat is ideal for a doggy playpen, with a black quilted seat cover and a bowl on the floor. "We're a modern California family," jokes Morrissey. "Dog, car, career woman...
...make ends meet, Brennetta slashed her living expenses and took a second job teaching a youth choir. It was an exhausting time. She set up a playpen in her office to keep Imani with her at work. Even the smallest tasks could be a trial. "Try taking a shower holding your baby in your arms," she says. She remembers talking to a student one day when her mind suddenly went blank. "I was so tired," she says. "I was an emotional wreck." Things are smoother now that Imani is nearly four and relatives are nearby to pitch in; indeed, Brennetta...