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...RITZ...
...band wore tails and tank-top T shirts and stood knee-deep in water before a crowd of 600 first-nighters. It was all part of the premiere puffery for The Ritz, the new movie based on Terrence McNally's Broadway comedy, which opened last week in New York. The film, set in a gay hotel-bathhouse, stars Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller and Rita Moreno, who created the party's splashiest scene when she hopped onto an island pedestal in the pool. "The photographers were just dying for me to fall in the water, but for that...
Died. Charles Ritz, 84, trim, soldierly chairman of the original Ritz Hotel on Paris' Place Vendome; in Paris. "Personal attention to the guest is everything," said Ritz, son of the hotel's founder. "I myself, to be friendly, send each guest a bottle of champagne and my card when he checks in." Fly-fishing was his avocation, and he spent much of his time angling in the streams of the world. His 1959 book A Fly Fisher's Life boasted an introduction by his friend and frequent customer Ernest Hemingway...
Join the tables at the Ritz in Decadence of all description...
About half of the former Angolans have gone to the impoverished north of Portugal, where many came from, looking for work and help from relatives. Every day the local papers are filled with lists of people seeking long-lost relations. About 250 have been put into Lisbon's Ritz Hotel for lack of space elsewhere. The rest of the refugees are living in wretched shantytown camps, in hospitals or schools. The government pays for this through a new agency, established to help the newcomers, with a budget of $160 million. Hundreds are squatters at Lisbon International Airport...