Word: hostesses
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...more than a decade ago. I was invited to a dinner at Fulvia Ferragamo's home, a sumptuous apartment filled with tapestries and paintings. The food cooked by the family's chef was delicious. The wine was from the Ferragamos' Tuscan vineyard, Il Borro. Every detail, down to the hostess's warm greeting, spoke to the family's generosity and enthusiasm for life, qualities they inherited from Salvatore himself. I often think of that evening as a barometer of luxury, a measure of what it means to live with style?whether it's in reference to food, fashion or manners...
...host club is a uniquely Japanese institution, catering to women seeking to drink with attentive and attractive but unthreatening men. Hosts constantly clean up the table, make drinks and refill glasses, light cigarettes and pamper clients. It's an inversion of the traditional ginza hostess venue, i.e. a gentleman's club without striptease or lap dancing. And it's not cheap. A bottle of '60s-vintage Dom Perignon goes for $10,000, and a few hours of non-sexual entertainment costs some of the more addicted customers as much as $100,000 a month...
...power grab by the Federal Government, and key Republicans, including TIME co-founder Henry Luce, thought he would be a fresh face for the GOP. Willkie had changed his party registration in 1939, but not all party regulars appreciated the interloper; Willkie's supposedly grass-roots campaign, quipped Washington hostess Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had sprung from the grass of 10,000 country clubs. Still, a tumultuous Republican Convention picked Willkie to be Roosevelt's third opponent...
There's one tiny bit in Darjeeling that shows what Anderson can do. The camera tracks along a corridor of train compartments. In each is a different character, glimpsed for just a few seconds: the Sikh trainman, the hostess, Peter's wife ... and Bill Murray as a businessman also seen briefly at the film's opening. It's a graceful series of snapshots into the lives of Darjeeling's subsidiary characters. Maybe Anderson could make a film about each of them. And perhaps collaborate on the screenplays with Owen Wilson. It could be therapeutic...
...room at a posh shinjuku crab restaurant, five twentysomethings surround Noboru Koyama, 60, CEO of Tokyo cleaning company Musashino. Koyama looks at his watch--it's 8:30 p.m.--and announces that the party is moving. "O.K.," Koyama says briskly, "we'll do hotel bar, sushi, drag-queen show, hostess club, in that order." The young salarymen, who volunteered to spend Saturday night with their boss, gasp. "We're going...