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But on clarifies that summer baseball stadium devises afternoon, we were just three guys under an unholy prayer tower, a few miles from the world's busiest border crossing, staring into an empty pool like soothsayers seeking meaning in tea leaves. I couldn't say what was happening in Las Vegas that afternoon, but I felt, all at once, very close to the place and very far from it. --(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX)GUIDEBOOKTravelBy car from Los Angeles, it's 132 miles to Tijuana (and drivers need to buy Mexican insurance before crossing the border) Visitors can park in a commercial lot on the U. S side, then walk across the border and catch a taxi. Or park at the Old Town Transit Center near downtown San Diego, then catch a 56-minute trolley ride to the border on the Metropolitan Transit System's Blue Line ($5 for a day pass) and walk across. Or take a Mexicoach bus ($8 to $36 round trip, mexicoach ) south from Old Town or the U. S. side of the border. TourGuides Fernando Garcia (fernando ultimatebaja ) and Maria Curry (marucurry yahoo ) each offer customized historical tours. StayHotel Coral & Marina, No. 3421, Kilometer 103 Carretera Tijuana-Ensenada, Zona Playitas, Ensenada, (800) 862-9020, hotelcoral . Weekend rates $160 to $850; weekdays are usually 10% less. Rosarito Beach Hotel, No 31 Blvd. Benito Juarez, Rosarito, (800) 343-8582, rosaritobeachhotel Rates $69 to $500. Marriott Tijuana, No 11553 Blvd.

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But the news is not good: Yom Kippur begins Friday evening and continues Saturday. )Things were not always so cushy . Peter Guber, producer and former chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures, says when he started in the business in the 1970s, "if somebody took an extra two days off, or a week off, they were looked at askance. "Now, Guber says, "I find people leaving in October for Christmas vacation. "But that's not to say work stops entirely dolphin football stadium . "It's very difficult to turn off my BlackBerry," confesses "Shopgirl" producer Ashok Amritraj He says he works two to three hours a day when on holiday dolphin nfl . In fact, until cellphones are banned on pool decks and ski lifts, Hollywood will never go dark . Marlins LandShark Stadium For the uninitiated, a primer on the art of loafing:Hawaii and Cabo San Lucas are the de facto destinations when it comes to easy, no-brainer escapes dolphin stadium . Acceptable accommodations? The Four Seasons Resort in Maui and Hualalai (i. e. Kona); in Cabo, the super-duper luxury palais Las Ventanas and Esperanza. (Also, in nearby San Jose del Cabo, there's the One&Only Palmilla, where services include sunglass-wiping pool girls and, for some guests, pre-loaded iPods. )Downsides? Industry saturation is a hair away from becoming ugly, particularly on the Big Island, where BlackBerrys and script-reading sunbathers are as abundant as leis. At the Four Seasons in Kona, "the scene at the pool is unbelievable," says Claudia Katz, a producer and partner in the animation studio Rough Draft "It's all actors and agents and cellphones.

I hung out at the kids' pool--before I even had kids--just to hide. "When Katz recently wrapped work on "The Simpsons Movie," she headed to the Four Seasons Resort in Punta Mita, Mexico--slightly calmer in the off-season--where she learned that she had missed Britney Spears by a week and was able to check out the "Simpsons" trailers while lolling in the pool's Wi-Fi area. Relationship-polishing is not an L. A. -only exercise . In lieu of "wolfing down a 40-minute lunch at the Grill" last year, Guber took a five-day trip to the Grand Canyon with 10 businessmen, including Lionsgate Chief Executive Jon Feltheimer and Steve Bornstein, president of the NFL Network, to "develop relationships with people I'd met but never got a chance to spend time with. ""When there are no cellphones, and there's no way out but down the river, you learn to get along in an environment you're not used to," Guber says dolphin stadium baseball . "It's 'Lord of the Flies' or get along. "Jets are the new yachts Though, of course, they require an invitation Gone are the days when the Warner Bros dolphin stadium concert Florida Marlins LandShark Stadium . jet regularly transported its brass--and stars such as Barbra Streisand and Clint Eastwood--to the studio's then-off-site compound, the Villa Eden in Acapulco Roger Daltrey - wikipedia Florida Marlins LandShark Stadium - sunlifestadium . (There also was a pad in Aspen, Colo. ) Today, more hustling is required to "find someone who has a jet," says one agent who asked not to be identified. "There are agents who spend hours trying to find a ride. " (Hello, Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay!)Even on the playa, there are standards. For those who associate the Burning Man festival with a week sans designer water, consider the Grand Hotel at Ashram Galactica in Black Rock City, Nev. , where Chris Weitz, cowriter and codirector of 2002's "About a Boy," and screenwriter/producer Matt Eddy host other Hollywood bohemians while getting their burn on.