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United Talent Agency shoots for the stars with new screening room
The numbers on United Talent Agency's new 130,000-square-foot Beverly Hills digs are notable. The Civic Center Drive property includes a 158-piece art collection, 11 conference rooms and a private plaza that can accommodate as many as 500 people....
Tags: Television Industry, Arts and Culture, Movies, Entertainment, Johnny Depp
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Former Hilton executive named to head L.A. tourism board
A former executive with Hilton Hotels Corp. has been named president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board. Ernest Wooden Jr., a former executive vice president for global brand management at Hilton, was named by the board...
Tags: U.S. Airways, Tourism and Leisure, Thomas Edison, Travel, Brooklyn (New York City)
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Phone numbers and websites for hotels, and hotel associations
Major lodging companies' phone numbers and websites are listed below. Several hotel and motel brands may be managed by one umbrella company. Thus, different chains may share central reservation staffs and Internet systems. It's why Internet users...Tags: Corus Group Plc, Station Casinos Incorporated, Red Lion Hotels Corp., Four Seasons Hotels Inc., United Kingdom
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More for Your Money: Locating a travel, shopping or dining deal by GPS
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterChecked in lately? On your smart phone, that is. If you had, you might have scored discounts on drinks, meals, shopping and other travel goodies just for letting friends and businesses know your whereabouts. Or even racked up points in a hotel's...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Virgin Group, Ltd., Forrester Research Incorporated, InterContinental Hotels Group Plc, The Walt Disney Co.
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The Morning Fix: Albrecht's back (again)! Apple luring CBS and Disney to take a bite. Crashing China.
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before deciding if the new tarmac delay rules will have unintended consequences. Tempted to bite the Apple. CBS and Walt Disney Co. are two of the big media companies considering a deal with Apple Inc.'s Internet TV...... -
More billionaires take Buffett's pledge to give it away
Money & CompanyWarren Buffett and Bill Gates say theyâve gotten pledges from 38 other super-rich Americans to give most of their wealth away to charity or other philanthropic causes during their lifetimes or at their death. In an announcement Wednesday, Buffett said..... -
States taking an interest in 'green' hotels too
Special to The Los Angeles TimesThey plunk down hotels in the middle of some of the nation's most beautiful settings: Santa Barbara's East Beach, Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, the Florida Keys. The reasons are clear, but the environmental footprint can have a significant negative...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Transportation Industry, Waste Management Incorporated, Environmental Issues, Hotels and Accommodations
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Paul Bocuse could make French fast food the next nouvelle cuisine
Special to The TimesREVERING la bonne cuisine as they do, many French are still fighting the good fight to hold the line against le fast food. But long gone are the days when the mention of a cheeseburger could earn you a Gallic sneer and protesters drove tractors into a...Tags: Wolfgang Puck, Quiche, McDonald's, Mushrooms, Gramercy
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Hotels hop on the 'green' bandwagon
Special to the Chicago TribuneIn case you haven't noticed, hotels are going green, doing their part to be ecologically friendly. You might call it the Al Gore effect, although the movement began before "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award this year. The green efforts go...Tags: Chicago Hotels, Electricity Production and Distribution, O'Hare International Airport, Movies, Energy Saving
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PASSINGS
Gregory R. Dillon Hilton hotel executive Gregory R. Dillon, 86, a Hilton Hotels Corp. executive who was a confidant of company founder Conrad Hilton and chief executive Barron Hilton, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, according to a statement from...Tags: Barcelona (Spain), Justice System, U.S. Army, Defense, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Nobody does it better, they say
WHERE TO STAY if you want the best of the nation's upscale hotels? At an Omni, according to the 2005 North America Guest Satisfaction Index Study, released in July. J.D. Power & Associates, a Westlake Village marketing firm, conducted the survey. Omni...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Mega-ship to outsize seas' reigning Queen
Special to The TimesCOMING soon to an ocean near you: a cruise ship larger than the Queen Mary 2. The heaviest, widest, largest cruise ship ever built was recently launched in Finland, moving from dry dock to the water so it could be completed. The 158,000-ton Freedom of...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Sailing, Tourism and Leisure, Wireless Technology, Shipbuilding
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