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Subject: Re: New Blind Item


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Gina
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Date Posted: 02:40:00 09/22/08 Mon
In reply to: Gina 's message, "Blind Item from 2004" on 11:24:29 09/21/08 Sun

I want to know who this is. My first thought was Russell Crowe or perhaps Alic Baldwin. Hum, anyone have a clue who is so smug to behave this way. Made me laugh when I first read it because i8t reminded me of John Cusak's part in American Sweetheart.When the limo driver gets involved in the dispute about who is going first. Cracks me when he says, "You know, some people say I look like you, not look like you so much but have the essence of you." LOL He replies by saying, "Can you put that partition up." Then he says, "I am getting a peep talk from my driver." I laugh so hard, I think that movie is so funny. Anyway, anyone have a guess who this blind item is about?
http://www.laineygossip.com/Star_Treatment.aspx?IsMicro=0

Star Treatment

How does he roll?

Private plane on someone else’s dime with specific requests about the type of aircraft…like it’s not enough to bypass commercial flying, you need to fly in a particular model. But that’s just the beginning.

He can only travel in matching (like MATCHING!) SUVs with police escort. Three of them. One left empty. And then a sedan. Why the sedan? Because his lower level staff are not allowed to ride in SUVs. They are beneath SUVs. His staff must also stay in a hotel separate from his.

Then there’s eye contact. No eye contact under any circumstances. If his driver happens to have to idle for more than 15 seconds with him in the car – say they’re packing up gear, or waiting for a delivery – the driver must exit the vehicle until the fleet is ready to move.

Speaking to him of course is out of the question. Speaking in his vicinity is even worse. The only voice he wants to hear is his own. You can talk…but only when he gives you permission. There’s actually a hand signal for that. It comes from his manager.

Hotel staff learn this lesson quickly. Imagine asking someone if he wants fresh towels and have him stare back at you, behind sunglasses, not answering, the silence filling up the room like a flood, how small that person must feel, that person who works and busts her ass for minimum wage, not even to be acknowledged, to feel the message from a millionaire that she is not worth engaging? Not even a nod?

If he walks past you in the hall, you must turn your back. If you don’t turn your back he’ll stop walking. His team will stand in a wall around him for fear that you might breathe on him. Worse still, they will harass you. They will intimidate you. They will treat you like a criminal and report you to make sure you are punished.

All of this and more, communicated without shame, without embarrassment, executed as though it’s the most natural way to behave … these are His Rules.

Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 9:03 AM

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