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...proud to have his name on this car." Royce, an engineer, met Entrepreneur Charles Rolls in 1904 at Manchester's Midland Hotel, and the first Silver Ghost was on the road three years later. Rolls died in an air crash in 1910, but Royce went on to launch the posh Phantom series in the 1920s and to acquire Bentley Motor Ltd. in 1931, two years before his death...
...Chester family is perhaps the world's most picked on family. After waiting for several hours in line at a posh restaurant, the last five lobsters are taken from right under then noses by the restaurant's most special customer (who also had the decency to cut the line right in front of the Chester clan...
Were it not for a few telltale antennas and a curious whitewashed rooftop coop, the handsome brick edifice in San Francisco's tony Pacific Heights could be easily mistaken for a small, posh hotel. In fact, the owner is the Soviet Union and the occupants are at least 41 Soviet officials. That is an unusually large number of diplomats for a consulate in a medium-size American city, but the Soviets did not come to the Bay Area to stamp tourist visas. About half the consular officials, the FBI estimates, are actually spies...
...lead to the very top of the social order. That is just fine with Director Ritchie, whose best work (Smile, The Bad News Bears) is acutely observant of manners and morals on every rung of the American ladder. Here everything from the way members treat servants at a posh tennis club to direct-mail advertising receives a glancing satiric blow from his camera. Even the car chase in Fletch is witty and believable and something an adult can attend without flinching. As the adolescent revels of summer wear on, that alone could make it a movie to cherish...
Established in 1939 as a cozy little celebration of film art, the festival is now a giant bazaar, full of hagglers and houris, that draws 35,000 visitors each May. Israeli-born Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, now based in Los Angeles, set up shop at the posh Carlton Hotel, and by the end of the 13-day festival their company, the Cannon Group, had cut $65 million worth of movie deals. Or was it $90 million? When money talks in this town, the details sometimes get lost in translation...