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...better to make money off a casino than Danny Ocean himself? GEORGE CLOONEY and Rande Gerber (a.k.a. Mr. Cindy Crawford) are building a swank new Vegas hotel-casino, part of a $4 billion Barcelona-themed mini-city called Las Ramblas, opening in 2008. World-famous architect Brad Pitt may pitch in, but, says Clooney, "I'm not sure we can afford him. He spends time with Frank Gehry." In the meantime, Clooney is hard at work picking chefs ("I've been spending hours and hours eating") and setting the ambiance. The vibe will be a mix of "a James Bond...
...Open. Sure, like a normal girl, Sharapova is a bit of a mall rat. But a normal girl doesn't morph into the highest-paid female athlete on the planet in one year. She doesn't have a corporate sponsor like Motorola throw her 18th-birthday party at a swank Manhattan nightclub, pack it with 500 people and hire Maroon 5 to rock out. And a normal girl certainly doesn't walk the tightrope between sports and sex, sparking a mini-furor at a Toronto tourney because her two stadium banners were a tad too revealing...
Buying an apple can be a revolutionary act. Don't believe it? Read The Real Food Revival: Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel, a new book by Sherri Brooks Vinton and Ann Clark Espuelas (Tarcher/Penguin). Galley Girl had breakfast with Vinton, 37, at a swank midtown Manhattan restaurant and chewed the (non-trans...
...visitors to Budapest are up 37% during the first quarter of 2005; international arrivals in Warsaw in March were up 35% to 509,000; and Serbia has announced $2.8 billion in subsidies to kick-start tourism there. But having skimped on the fares, it seems many tourists want to swank it up in style. Warsaw now has eight five-star hotels - twice as many as in 2002. Hungary is building two of them a year and Bulgaria already has 23. Particularly popular are the five-star spas and "wellness" centers. For now, supply is outpacing demand, meaning typical room rates...
...airily: "We'll renovate a couple of subway stations, et cetera, et cetera." Planners of housing for the poor realized years ago that isolated high-rise flats foster a dangerous anomie. Condo buyers may be unlikely to join street gangs, but Television City will be an interesting experiment: extreme swank and large-scale alienation, together for the first time...