Hotel screened all employees who waited on the Chinese to make sure they had no inordinate prejudices against them.
The hotel screening rooms offer not only professional projection equipment but also stylish quarters suitable for private receptions.
Every evening the hotel screened a film in the outdoor cinema, so after dinner, while Bridget was putting Laila to bed, I settled down with Marley.
TriBeCa Grand Hotel Screening Room, 2 Avenue of the Americas, at White Street, (917 513-9867, free, but R.S.V.P. is required (at www.scion.com/route/dig-info.html).
At a special screening of Hot in Cleveland, TV Land's first original sitcom, to air on Wednesday night, White, ladylike and elegant in black sequins, was irrepressible, her timing impeccable, shouting out: How do you like it so far?, just as the Crosby Hotel screening room went dark.
BEFORE you tear yourself away from the hotel plasma screen and embark on the tour proposed by this column, consider this: Do you find it impossible to dislodge a catchy tune from your brain?
Even today, in the gloaming, with nothing left to prove, Jerry Rice is in perpetual motion, always the child from Crawford, Miss., catching bricks from his father, always the college football player from Mississippi Valley State with the stride of a gazelle, dashing across Bill Walsh's hotel television screen, each man unaware that their paths would cross.
Then there was Robin McGrath's hotel-lounge screen - a table and chair set divided to give a sense of privacy to people wanting to use the hotel lobby.
