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Hilton arrived shortly before 1 a.m., as Sean Paul’s 2003 hit “Get Busy” blared on the club’s speakers. While partygoers screamed with enthusiasm, the blonde starlet strolled through a VIP section packed with Grey Goose-swilling Harvard Lampoon and Final Club members, eventually settling at a visible corner table...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: One Night With Paris: Socialite Parties with Spee Boys and ’Poonsters | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...friends during a bar-hopping birthday party in Chicago last November. Many of the responses were hostile ("You vain vain [expletive]," one read), but a woman, Mandy Johnston, took the job--delivering to the guys afterward an elaborate package of digital photos and prints and, during the evening, unexpected VIP stature: the crew skipped to the front of the line at several clubs. "We got in faster because of Mandy. People thought, These guys are important people," Barker says. He's considering hiring her again, perhaps for his upcoming 30th-birthday weekend in Key West, Fla. "Celebrities are always whining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Own Personal Paparazzi | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...considered himself lucky to have the opportunity to watch this classic. The 2,000 tickets available for Prince Igor ranged from just 300 seats at the cheapest price (380 renminbi, or close to $50, a considerable amount for most mainland Chinese) to 122 VIP seats (at 2,008 renminbi, or $250, each). Liu believes that most of the seats in the best section were set aside for government and Communist Party officials, who he says were among the quickest to vacate them at the intermission. "I think only 10% of the audience are true music lovers," said a man surnamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling the allure of a night at the opera | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...considered himself lucky to have the opportunity to watch this classic. The estimated 2,000 tickets available for Prince Igor ranged from just 300 seats at the cheapest price (380 Renminbi or close to $50, a huge amount for ordinary citizens) to 122 VIP seats (at the Olympiad-alluding price of 2,008 RMB or $250). Almost all sold out in no time, apart from those set aside for government officials. "I think only 10% of the audience are true music lovers," said a man surnamed Song, who hovered around the theatre in freezing temperatures hoping to find a cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Incredible Audible Egg | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...Apple with the Big Mikan (satsuma orange), as Tokyo is sometimes called. A high-ceilinged space - an anomaly compared with the usually cramped nightspots the city is known for - is tastefully divided into smaller and more intimate zones, from lounge and dining areas to an invitation-only VIP room for those can't-be-disturbed celebs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bearing Fruit | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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