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Most people balk at the cost of these memberships, but for the exceptionally wealthy it's spare change. "What are people going to do with their money?" asks Bill Fischer, founder of Fischer Travel in New York City (the agency is so select that its telephone number is available only by word of mouth). "They have the houses, they've got the fancy cars and drivers. The next things are luxury and privacy--and they're willing to pay for them." --BY MELISSA CERIA
...woman most famous for divorcing well is about to play TV matchmaker. In a fall Fox special titled Ivana Young Man, IVANA TRUMP will select eight twentysomething guys to vie for a "successful but lonely fortysomething woman." When wealthy men like Ivana's ex, Donald, trade in their wives for younger models, it's a tired cliche, but the older woman--younger man coupling still grips the public's interest. (Thanks, Demi!) In other words: Donalds of the world, you're fired...
Vonage is likely to lose some of that price advantage eventually, as the Federal Communications Commission figures out how to regulate Internet phone service. What Citron is desperately trying to avoid is a patchwork of state regulations--a logistical nightmare for Vonage. Since Vonage customers can select any area code they want and use their service not just at home but also anywhere they have a broadband connection, tax collection gets tricky. "How do I know where you are?" Citron says. "How do I know who to give the money to? I can't possibly get it right...
...house-size meal. At the Meritage restaurant in the Boston Harbor Hotel, guests can order just a spoonful of entrees like flash-fried Nantucket scallops, or chicken, porcini mushroom and truffle salad. Chef Pino Maffeo at L in Boston offers 4-in.-to-6-in.-high test tubes of select soups from his regular menu, while at 15 RIA in Washington, dessert, left, is served in a flight of shot glasses...
...Jordan" (Pantheon; 288 pages; $21) collects Mark Beyer's comic strip that ran in a select few alternative weekly newspapers during the early 90s. A tour de force of the form, it combines wild, fever-dream visions with dark, existentialist gag humor. Beyer takes all the clich?s of the traditional "laugh-a-day" strip and turns them inside out. The typically cute, bourgeois family of the dailies has been replaced by Amy and Jordan, a fear-filled, childless couple who live in a nameless city full of bugs, aliens, dirt and neighbors like Dame Head, who is just a head...