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There is something creepy about cruising the darkening streets of Beijing sunk in the velvet upholstery of Madame Mao's 1970s Red Flag limousine. My feet propped up on the jump seat?just as Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's third wife, liked to sit on her own tours of the capital?I sip champagne, nibble caviar and nod as my 20-year-old tour guide, Maggie, recounts tales of China's glorious communist past. As we pass Tiananmen Square and its floodlit portrait of Chairman Mao, I've suddenly had enough. Unable to take more of Maggie's garbled history...
...Leena Srivastava, director of tourism at IDMI, the firm that's bringing the concept to life. The newly appointed monarchs will then board their appropriately splendid carriage. "The interior of the aircraft will be like a palace," gushes Srivastava. Imagine opulent lounges lined with carpets, hovering attendants behind heavy, velvet curtains. "We're going to make it more comfortable, more luxurious, more ... palatial...
...When you get to your seat in this beautiful courtroom, there is a handmade goose quill pen waiting for you at your seat. Then the clerk comes out and announces the Justices, who come in through a velvet curtain. The courtroom was packed; the pressroom was packed. Every seat was filled...
Behind the Velvet Curtain...
...hard work come to fruition last Friday night when the Boston premiere of Soul Slide entertained a crowd of about 100 people. Held in trendy Atlas bar at the bottom of Jillian’s, the atmosphere was more final club than ski lodge. Guests perched on velvet-sided barstools under subtle lighting as Top 40 pop music played in the background. Numerous televisions hung from the ceiling and three huge screens behind the bar showed the film, which combined sweeping shots of traditional freeheel skiing interspersed with footage of daredevil stunts...