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As Macaulay hits the news – just found fabulous article by Sean Hardy in the Independent from 1995 about his Christmas with the former child star, involving private jets and Europe’s best hotels.
Excerpt here, then enjoy via the link
My Christmas with Macaulay Culkin
Stretch limos, Lego snow, reindeer on the menu… Sean Hardy looks back at his oddest Christmas – in the bosom of the child star’s family
Teachers find themselves up to some funny business just before Christmas – explaining to your mates the glitter in your hair, lying to small children about Father Christmas. The real meaning of Christmas – by which of course I mean shopping – gets left till after the end of term. Except, that is, for one Christmas when I decided to do some freelance work. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young movie star in possession of a publicity entourage must be in want of a tutor. It’s an odd job, nearer nannying than classroom teaching, but it has its returns, particularly if the “classroom” is the travelling circus of a European publicity tour – in the run-up to Christmas. ..
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I’m Posting every day in 2011!
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I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.
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My client ASA has been flat out for the last few weeks. They are aviation security experts who have been under huge demand for help.
The ASA Group, an Asian specialist VIP aviation security services provider with a base in Bangkok, reports that its phones are ‘ringing off the hook’ with requests for assistance from travellers and security companies concerned about the situation in Thailand. This week the group has moved people including families and exchange students away from troubled areas. Simon Wagstaff, ASA’s managing director said: “Many people are frightened about what is happening here. The situation is fluid and changes daily. It is important to stress that people want to move as much for convenience as for safety. Their daily lives are affected by the lack of facilities available.” It is difficult to enter and exit the hotspots, where shops are closed and utilities such as running water, electricity and Internet are intermittent if present at all.
Wagstaff adds: “We are warning our clients to stay away from the troubled areas. Some tourists have unwisely been going to the protest sites to gawk and take photographs. That is a bit like those people who get out of the car at a safari park to pet the ‘cuddly’ lions.” ASA is urging visitors to keep a close eye on the news, and make plans for an alternative means of getting out of the country if necessary. They should also ensure that they carry a phone number for a security specialist firm should trouble flare up suddenly.
Wagstaff says: “We are escorting people to and from the airport, since the troubled areas are constantly changing and we know where to avoid. If people are coming I would strongly recommend hiring a security firm that knows what it is doing.”
In recent months ASA has been called on several times to assist VIP passengers to leave the country, and helped corporate aircrews and passengers exit Thailand after demonstrators seized control of Bangkok’s International Suvarnabhumi airport. He added: “If any executive aviation travellers are worried about the situation in Thailand at the moment, they are welcome to call us. We give a daily update to an international security and intelligence newsletter, which is subscribed to by thousands of businesses and individuals worldwide, so we have up to the minute information.”
Gulrstream’s director of corporate communications Robert Baugniet was kind enough to show me around the company’s current flagship Gulfstream G550 aircraft at Asian Aerospace. Gorgeous cabin!
