Gucci head honcho Tom Ford was booked into a room just along the corridor from mine, and ubermodel, Mark Vanderloo was practically a permanent fixture in the lounge bar.
If the fall of Fifa's head honcho won't do it, the Mill wonders what exactly it would take for the gossip-mongers of football to grind to a halt.
"Why be a honcho for Rossi and Son?" Mr Andrew asks.Such individualism and diffidence towards outsiders hinders co-operation and consolidation.
Its efforts to persuade companies to drop the prices of TV shows have been rebuffed by all except News Corporation and Disney, on whose board Steve Jobs, Apple's head honcho, sits.
AHIP honcho Karen Ignagni responded that the industry acknowledges the difficulties, but that from their perspective the problem continues to be rising medical costs that leave them with few options.
Japan's sudden opening to the world, a world war, and then forty years of an economic boom put quite a few Japanese words and concepts into the Anglophone mind: kamikaze, futon, haiku, kabuki, origami, karaoke, tycoon, tsunami, jiu-jitsu, zen and honcho are all common English words that nowadays can be used without any reference to Japan.
Bosses must confront a growing army of critics from within the capitalist system: look at the way that Apple's head honcho, Tim Cook, has been roasted by angry investors.
The moment may not always be quite so public, nor quite so mission-critical, but when an underling is going around badmouthing the head honcho, something has to be done.Jack Welch, a former boss of General Electric, has no doubt that President Obama did the right thing by, in Neutron Jack's words, "taking out" General McChrystal.
Although his father was a big BBC honcho, he joined Britain's first cable channel, Ten.It may have been a historic moment; but that is not the way it looked at the time.
But Mr Phillips is a top honcho of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has run Mexico for 70 years by being exactly the opposite, and which if he is right may well find the voters have given it reason to wish it had carried on that way.
She was made dean of the Harvard Law School by Larry Summers, who was then the head honcho at Harvard and is now Mr Obama's economic adviser.
