Word: valet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every glitzy costume the most faaaabulous! And then there's Debbie. To the owner and star of the Debbie Reynolds Hotel/Casino/Hollywood Movie Museum, smaller is better. It's also all she could afford. Reynolds bought and spruced up the 200-room Paddlewheel Hotel for just $10 million, which is valet-tip money to Steve Wynn. Debbie makes do with her own perky energy. And makes more of less. "Welcome to my new little theater!" she tells visitors to her nightly show. "Doncha think it's cute...
...companions are Vatican aides, Sister Tobiana, one of the Pope's Polish nuns-in-waiting, will serve family-style. With guests from outside the city-state, Angelo Gugel, the chief papal valet, dons a waiter's jacket for formal service. The menu is Italian: pasta or antipasto, followed by a meat dish with vegetables and salad, and either fruit with cheese or a Polish pastry for dessert. Asked if the papal cuisine was any good, a French Cardinal once responded: "Coming from Lyons, that's hard for me to say -- but there are a sufficient number of calories...
...buyers to rush into the market while they can still afford a home. Outside Atlanta, Jim and Amanda Arnold bought a two-story house last month instead of waiting until August as they had intended. "The Fed took the indecision out of home buying," says Jim, who runs a valet-parking service and had to borrow to make the down payment earlier than planned...
...several achingly small inches, he might so easily had ended the valet's search up and down the closet for Augusta's newest green jacket...
...jungle called Hollywood, there are two tribes. One is the brown-eyed honey drippers, the other the blue-eyed truth tellers. The honey drippers address their valet parkers as darling, glad-hand everyone who brunches at Patrick's, and make movies they hope the whole world will pay to see. The truth tellers take risks and make trouble. They sign up for roles in eccentric movies and turn down parts in surefire hits. They go their own way, never fretting if others don't follow...