• A bespectacled Jennifer Aniston joined three girlfriends for dinner at Ty Lounge in New York City's Four Seasons Hotel. The actress, who nibbled on wild salmon and sipped Grey Goose vodka with limejuice, repeatedly broke into laughter as the meal went on. "The ladies seemed to be having a really good time together," a witness tells PEOPLE.
DOHA, Qatar -- It was like that moment at the end of a courtroom drama when a decisive witness is unexpectedly called, dramatically turning the outcome of the case on its head. Suddenly, the mood changed completely; suddenly, the verdict did not seem quite so clear cut. As a piece of PR it was a masterstroke. As a reflection of the impact a single man can have it was hugely revealing; a case study in convincing. For all the technical, objective criteria, for all the logical thinking, personality can still persuasive. Especially if you chose the right personality.
"Times have changed," the star of The Switch says. "[Women] have so many options these days"
A tip to hotel owners: For happy customers, offer wireless internet and a free breakfast, be sure to have smoke-free rooms and keep the level of service consistently high across your properties.
See how the newlyweds tied the knot during their sunset ceremony in Hawaii
The couple, who recently got engaged again, tied the knot on the Big Island last week
The august body names its Top 10 on the big screen and small
The 30 Rock star kids Katie Holmes, Renée Zellweger and Julie Andrews
"Is it really true that you have falafel in America," an educated, English-speaking Syrian asks me at the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus. And if so, he wondered, "what do you call it there?"
A bomb threat at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills sends stars to street
After spending nearly five decades building the Four Seasons Hotels out of a motor lodge he started in 1961, Four Seasons founder and CEO Isadore Sharp is telling his story. It's captured in his new book, "Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy," which hit bookstores this week.
The athlete marries Stacey Gardner – a Deal or No Deal model – in Beverly Hills
Nicole Richie's baby pictures? Now, that's hot!
Britney Spears's wild ride left the troubled pop star car-less Monday night, after cops impounded her abandoned vehicle.
The photographer who gave Britney Spears a lift to her Studio City home after she abandoned her car with a flat tire Monday night has detailed their brief ride
together, saying the pop star spent most of the ride sending text messages.
Jack Black and wife Tanya Haden are adding another baby to their family, the actor said Saturday.
Add one more wrinkle to the nation's real estate crisis: Britney Spears is looking for a new home.
In Seattle, a homeowner is offering round-trip airplane tickets to anywhere in the world, plus a six-night stay at a Four Seasons hotel to anyone who will just, please, buy the house he has on the market.
Lawyers for Britney Spears and Kevin Federline faced off in a hearing Monday to hammer out a holiday visitation schedule for their children. According to Federline's lawyer, the former couple agreed to share time with Preston, 2 and Jayden James, 1, over Christmas.
Britney Spears is taking "security measures" to protect her children, her attorney says.
Van Halen held a press conference Monday to announce that they're finally hitting the road with their newest member, 16-year-old Wolfgang Van Halen.
Josh Hartnett needs a smoke. He wasn't planning on lighting one up, but as soon as his agent leaves his suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles he opens up the balcony windows overlooking West Hollywood and grabs a pack from the nearby room service cart.
Britney Spears arrived in Miami on Sunday for a concert at Mansion - but she had some important business to attend to first.
Tom Arnold filed for divorce from his wife, Shelby Roos, on Monday after nearly five years of marriage.
FSB: Mother's day giftsupdated: Thu May 03 2007 18:22:00
New products that Mom and Earth will love, designed by small companies.
SI.com: Andy's the manupdated: Wed Jan 17 2007 13:04:00
In my past few columns, I've given a few updates on my rehabbing from back surgery and getting back on tour. But honestly, watching another of my fellow pros gear up for what will probably be a big year is almost as exciting as my eventual return to the court.
CNNMoney: Stocks get a bounceupdated: Mon Nov 06 2006 09:27:00
Stocks bounced Monday morning, recovering after last week's drubbing as investors eyed a slew of corporate deals and geared up for Tuesday's congressional elections.
It's 8 A.M on Friday, Sept. 29, and HP CEO Mark Hurd and I are having coffee in a basement meeting room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C. Dressed in his unvarying uniform - dark suit, ...
HP CEO Mark Hurd has now been through the iconic cauldron of raising his right hand at a Congressional hearing, swearing to tell the truth and nothing but, and having his strained visage beamed electronically across the land.
The most troubled sector of the housing market, the one that will fall first and fastest, is the condominium market. Typically cheaper than houses and easier to buy, sell or rent out, condos are catnip for investors.
Business 2.0: Pineapple and Pamperingupdated: Wed Mar 01 2006 08:16:00
What do a $5.3 billion fruit brand, a luxury hotel chain, and a medical insurance company have in common? Nothing--until they form a joint venture to get into the spa business. In August, Dole Food...
Just before America's Thanksgiving holiday, Arun Sarin, CEO of Britain's Vodafone, found himself across the Atlantic calming irate investors. The company's Nov. 15 earnings announcement contained a number of surprises: lower profit margins in Japan, an $8.6 billion tax bill, and slower-than-expected growth in Europe. Vodafone shares fell 11% on the news, one of the biggest one-day drops in the company's history. In an interview at New York's Four Seasons Hotel, Sarin talked with FORTUNE's Janet Guyon about perception problems, future growth, and the joy of watching television on a mobile phone.
All too often, hotel fitness centers are small and crowded, closed when you want to use them, or outfitted with obsolete equipment. But that's no reason to flop on the bed and order a burger and fr...
Fortune: All the rageupdated: Mon Mar 21 2005 00:01:00
SOME THINGS YOU GET A FEELING about but don't quite understand. You see stuff and get an overall picture of what's going on, but the whys and wherefores don't arrive on time with the observation. S...
FSB: Best New Tastesupdated: Tue Mar 01 2005 00:01:00
Vermont Butter & Cheese Cultured Butter, $19 a pound To support herself while studying in France, Allison Hooper, 45, milked goats on local dairies. She returned to her native New England and a dec...
Fortune: HALL OF FAMEupdated: Mon Jan 24 2005 00:01:00
These 22 companies have appeared on our list every year since its 1998 inception.
Wegmans Food Markets employees have reason to smile, as the grocery chain topped Fortune magazine's eighth annual list of "100 Best Companies to Work For."
CNNMoney: Swells on the slopesupdated: Wed Jan 05 2005 15:19:00
Money talks everywhere. But on American mountains these days, it practically shouts.
John Kerry and President Bush, packing their own pencils and wearing their own makeup, will shake hands at 9:02 p.m. ET and then scoot promptly back to their 50-inch-tall podiums, 10 feet apart, in an auditorium with a temperature controlled "according to industry standard." They're not allowed, under any circumstances, to touch each other again.
While all eyes have been on billionaire Paul Allen's adventures in space--the Microsoft co-founder recently spent more than $20 million launching a manned spaceship from the Mojave Desert--he's qui...
In the early days of budget travel, low fare airlines catered for tourists on a shoestring budget, but now no-frills airlines are casting their spell over business fliers as well.
U.S. stock markets were set to open higher Friday after a surprise minor upward revision to the fourth-quarter gross domestic product number.
Michael Dell is an unlikely proponent of patience. After all, he couldn't even wait until he finished college to start a direct-sales computer business in his dorm room at the University of Texas. ...
It's 110 degrees in the shade, but you'd never know it inside the air-conditioned Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph whisking you from Dubai's new $550 million airport to the Burj Al Arab Hotel. Shaped like...
FSB: The Big Pretzelupdated: Wed Nov 01 2000 00:01:00
The "beautiful people" dressed in black, dining at tony sidewalk bistros? Yo! I thought this was Philly! Visitors to the birthplace of independence are discovering, as did the delegates to this yea...
FSB: Our Kind of Townupdated: Sun Oct 01 2000 00:01:00
It's not hard to be a fan in Chicago. With the Bears (football), Blackhawks (ice hockey), Bulls (basketball), and Cubs and White Sox (baseball, of course), Chicago is the proverbial sports-crazed t...
FSB: Tea Party Townupdated: Sat Jul 01 2000 00:01:00
Boston is a charming contradiction of a city. It is steeped in colonial history yet more European than American in character. The city is home to a bewildering array of tribes: blue-blooded Brahmin...
I was browsing in the underbrush that morning when the phone rang. Not much was going on. The shrubs were tasty due to the thawing snow that had watered them recently. That always makes them plump ...
What's Wall Street's best martini bar? A lot of Street types pick the FiftySeven Bar at the Four Seasons hotel. If by "best" they mean pretentious, then they've got it right. FORTUNE's outing there...
1. The new Lincoln Town Car. I get to LAX and there it is, gleaming at the curb. A complete redesign of the basic box Dean Martin rode in. A rounded snout. Heavy duty grillwork. My driver isn't a t...
If all your nights on the road are spent in the same old cookie-cutter hotels, next time treat yourself to some style. In the past year or so, a bunch of one-of-a-kind high-concept hotels have surf...
Japanese moguls made a big splash in the Eighties by buying trophy hotels at trophy prices. Now, oil-rich potentates are back in the game, scooping up these jewels at a discount just as the busines...
Tired of schlepping your golf clubs around with you when you travel? Odyssey Sports is willing to bet that you are. This Carlsbad, California, company has just launched a golf club leasing program ...
Fortune: HOME, SWEET HOTELupdated: Mon Dec 19 1988 00:01:00
Isadore Sharp knows the problems of living out of a suitcase. And how. As a child in Toronto, Sharp, now chairman of the swank Four Seasons Hotels chain, lived in 15 different houses in 16 years. H...
Canada's plans to liberalize trade regulations and attract more foreign investment have a growing number of U.S. executives wondering when they'll be packing for a trip north. Many also wonder what...
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