In the early 1980s, Geng gets sober and begins a career as a theater actor and repeat guest on "Miami Vice".
Resorts typically give holiday bookings first to repeat guests who visit year after year.
SOUTHERN SUITES -- All SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama are offering a discount of $10 a night to repeat guests through Sept. 30.
Factor in the elevated customer service granted to repeat guests and it's easy to see why globetrotters like Sonia Lai, a small business owner who travels approximately 200,000 miles each year, strongly advise signing up.
"This event is different than everything else," said Mr. Freston of Chopper Dave's, a repeat guest.
He is a repeat guest of Mr. Boren's, having delivered the commencement address at the university last year.
He has been a quarterback on the Yale football team, a repeat guest on "The Colbert Report" and, in 1992, one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people.
Ms. Jolie, the actress and United Nations good will ambassador, is a repeat guest, as is Bill Clinton, who is now in the conference business himself, having organized the Clinton Global Initiative last September in New York.
He spent 1979 through 1986 as Jackpot Jackson, a young doctor on the CBS series "Trapper John, M.D.," and as late as last season was a repeat guest star on "Frasier".
Mr. Cruz, who was a repeat guest at the Rand Paul filibuster show, began his first question by making the obvious allusion, referring to Mr. Paul as a "modern-day 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' " joking that his effort would "surely be making Jimmy Stewart smile".
