Living in Connecticut not far from New York City, they had purchased tickets for a Broadway play, made reservations to eat at a fancy restaurant after the show, and had reservations for a hotel not far from Times Square.
Impressionist McGowan, who will play Savile, had reservations about taking up the role but both felt it was "right thing to do", Maitland told the BBC.
The company's i-mode service, which allows users to make hotel reservations, play games and send e-mail by cell phones without connecting to an Internet service provider, has become a global trend-setter.
Buy tickets to a concert or play, or get reservations for that cool new hotel that just opened downtown.
"My role is to be a bridge between all the departments that have a role to play on this reservation," Mr. Stout said.
The mechanism at play is the reservation of spectrum in each market for those who do not, as Reuters wrote today, "already have substantial blocks of low-frequency airwaves there".
A corporate employee increasingly can use the same device, regardless of form factor, for everything from online banking to making dinner reservations, playing games, music, sending out tweets on Twitter and talking with friends on Facebook as well as working on sensitive corporate data.
Becky Mode's one-person play, about a harried reservations taker at a four-star restaurant where everyone and his grandmother want to eat, does as much to shake the foundations of the temples of haute cuisine as a squadron of flies in the vichyssoise.
But the real play here is restaurant reservations.
"I did have some reservations about playing myself.
