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...condominium, evidence of Schrager's master plan to combine hotels with full-time residential properties--at $5 million to $10 million apiece. He is about to announce a 10,000-unit residential, retail and hotel complex in Las Vegas, inspired by the Tivoli Gardens, Central Park and a Tuscan town square. In a softening housing market, the Las Vegas project will be a stern test of Schrager's vision. "Everything Ian does has levels of influence," says Ross Klein, president of W Hotels Worldwide. "He's an innovator, and this balancing of full-time and overnight property is what people...
...lottery, he decides to repair his Karma by righting every wrong he's done. With naive teddy-bear brother Randy (Ethan Suplee, above left), his feral, conniving ex-wife (Jaime Pressly) and her sweetly spacey new husband (Eddie Steeples), he ineptly cuts a swath of penance through his small town. Earl is a cartoony fella--he perpetually looks as if he just lost a battle with the Road Runner--but Lee gives him a mellow decency. This story of a bad man going good badly is a redemptive riot...
Albany's an ace place for grommets and grommettes. White-powdered beaches overlook whales flipping in King George Sound, all set in a landscape seemingly formed to fire the youthful imagination: from Mount Many Peaks to the crumbling ruins of the town's whaling past. Says 15-year-old surfer Wade Costello: "Everything you need is here...
...Ceduna, the clean coastal town famous for its oysters, is home to the westernmost of the state's four roadblocks. "He's the bad bugger," says Provis' offsider, Brian "Flash" Hoffrichter, 63, brandishing a dried specimen of the Mediterranean variety (Ceratitis capitata), which is not much bigger than a grain of sand. A gruesome color photograph on the wall shows the damage its maggots can inflict on oranges. "Doesn't look real nice, does it?" Hoffrichter says. "Little things can do big damage...
...Town traffic is free to come and go through the roadblock, and Provis and Hoffrichter know the local number plates by heart. Eventually headlights cut through the gloom outside. "What have we got here, Geoff?" asks Hoffrichter, peering into the night. "A local?" Provis has the sharper eyes of the two. "Very local," he says, waving the car through...