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Signing in at CLUB PET INTERNATIONAL in Chantilly, Va., is like registering at the Ritz. You have to fill out a lengthy pet profile for personality, allergies, temperament, health and special medical needs. In addition to daily boarding for $15.50 (under 35 lbs.) or $17.50 (larger beasts), there are "spa packages" with extra play periods, quiet times with one-on-one petting, a nature walk, a dip in the pool and treats like Frosty Paws ice cream. "There is so much kindness here," says Richard Rae, whose three Akitas have checked into Club Pet 30 times. "My dogs come...
...autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, is stuffed with lies, inventions and embroideries. Did he really, as he claimed, have to be restrained from throwing himself out of a window on seeing a locust in the room? Did he actually sit in the bar of the Ritz in Madrid and make cocktails out of his own blood? Did he truly associate animal glue, death and dung with sex? And how to square the youthful Dali--whom his fellow students at the Madrid Academy remembered as "bashful," "morbidly shy" and "literally sick with timidity"--with the self-corrupted publicity stunter...
...magazine, her diva demeanor is on parade. She tells us that her two best friends since childhood keep her grounded-but then we find out that these girls are also her "personal assistants." Meaning that she forks over a wad of cash and they "draw her baths at the Ritz." Now that's friendship. When traveling, Jennifer "requires that she sleep on sheets with a minimum thread count of 250 and that she be driven in a black Mercedes with a male driver" (hmmmm...). And she has the ability to demand the Body Shop's opening after hours in case...
...setting? A hotel room high within the warm confines of the Ritz Carlton. Outside, the snow-covered streets and gloomy sky create a somewhat fitting backdrop for an interview with the director of Reindeer Games, whose newest film is the latest product of a long and distinguished career. The creative mind behind films such as Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz,and Ronin is using the flowers as an example of props on a movie set making a statement. He has a few statements of his own to make, as Crimson Arts catches up with the legendary director...
Despite Harvard's second place ranking, Ritz Survey praises the University...