Word: valets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...once you preoccupy yourself with that question you're pretty much lost. It's all over Hollywood: you can see whether your stock has gone up or down in the eyes of the parking attendant." Gee: If a top director can feel threatened by a sharp glance from the valet guy at Morton's, either Nichols needs help or the valet should be an actor. (Which he probably is anyway...
...know the car you are driving is something special when the parking valet compliments you on it. After all, this guy sees and drives everything. So even though the Manhattan garage where I parked for an hour last Thursday afternoon was packed with Lexuses, BMWs and other luxury vehicles, I knew the attendant was right on when he commented that the $30,000 Ford Escape Hybrid I was driving was a "nice...
...millions of readers in scores of languages around the world, the name P.G. Wodehouse evokes a mirthful Edwardian realm of hapless dukes, fearsome maiden aunts and one very tolerant, quietly competent valet. Wodehouse, who died in 1975 at the age of 93, remains one of the best-loved English writers. Nearly all of his 100-odd novels and story collections are still in print. Wodehouse magazines and fan clubs dot the globe. Hardly a decade passes without a new movie or play inspired by his creations: the dim but affable Bertie Wooster, his long-suffering gentleman's gentleman Jeeves...
...Gershwin and Cole Porter. "Musical comedy was my dish," Wodehouse wrote of those happy days. "I would rather have written Oklahoma! than Hamlet.'" But the real money was in Wooster-shire. After a stream of popular stories about well-born wastrels, among them Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse introduced a valet named Jeeves. He paired the two to solve plot problems in The Man With Two Left Feet (1917), and the rest is history. To the many theories about the characters' origins, McCrum insightfully adds: "The cunning servant?foolish master has been a staple of comedy since classical times, and Wodehouse certainly...
...furnishings and a butler to draw your bath. Or consider the Enclave at the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, with 30 loftlike rooms that start at $375. It's connected to the main building by a 10,000-sq.-ft. outdoor garden and can be reached from an underground valet garage by private elevator. "There's very little signage," says Renier Milan, the hotel's general manager. "Unless you're part of the In crowd, you won't know it's there." The just-opened Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, also caters to customers who demand...