2013年07月26日
another mother is no concern
When reminded that this year an actor sued the internet site IMDb for ruining her career by publishing her real age, Collette laughs. ''But it's honest. That's so funny,'' she says. ''I'm proud of my years, man. I'm doing some exciting things and kind of feel very lucky and fortunate, so that's crazy talk.''
Proudly 40, then, Collette is an actor incredibly well regarded by her peers. She is known for completely inhabiting characters, physically and mentally, yet she still loves to have fun. On The Way Way Back, she enjoyed being the big kid with the other big-name actors - Carell, Alison Janney, Sam Rockwell - while the young actors were the focus, revelling in a set with two directors who created ''a relaxed, easygoing vibe''.
When she realised that Liam James, playing son Duncan, and Rockwell had many scenes around and on the waterslides at Water Wizz, while Collette's Pam never has a ride, there was one solution for an actor who puts as much work into relaxing on set as working: ''I did it about 30 times after they closed one day.''
Collette is now playing in New York, based there for Jerry Bruckheimer's Hostages, her first significant role in a free-to-air American television series. ''I play a surgeon who has been chosen to operate on the president of the United States of America, and the night before this well-publicised surgery she and her family are taken hostage and they try to convince her to do all the wrong things to the president.''
Observing that the role is of another mother is no concern. Collette cringes only at the suggestion she might be playing an all-action surgeon. It is a Bruckheimer show, after all, but, while the show will unfold in a real-time style similar to the series 24, Collette promises to deliver another unique character.
A long list of future roles awaits, and Australia has its share - ''I love working at home,'' she says. And what about theatre? Collette's first roles were a school production of Godspell and the lead in a Bicentennial musical. A few Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir roles later, she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2000 for her performance in The Wild Party on Broadway. ''I'm definitely open to it,'' she says of treading the boards again. ''[It's] just a matter of the right thing, and scheduling, because, man, if you've got to do it night after night, you want to love it and find it endlessly interesting.''
Proudly 40, then, Collette is an actor incredibly well regarded by her peers. She is known for completely inhabiting characters, physically and mentally, yet she still loves to have fun. On The Way Way Back, she enjoyed being the big kid with the other big-name actors - Carell, Alison Janney, Sam Rockwell - while the young actors were the focus, revelling in a set with two directors who created ''a relaxed, easygoing vibe''.
When she realised that Liam James, playing son Duncan, and Rockwell had many scenes around and on the waterslides at Water Wizz, while Collette's Pam never has a ride, there was one solution for an actor who puts as much work into relaxing on set as working: ''I did it about 30 times after they closed one day.''
Collette is now playing in New York, based there for Jerry Bruckheimer's Hostages, her first significant role in a free-to-air American television series. ''I play a surgeon who has been chosen to operate on the president of the United States of America, and the night before this well-publicised surgery she and her family are taken hostage and they try to convince her to do all the wrong things to the president.''
Observing that the role is of another mother is no concern. Collette cringes only at the suggestion she might be playing an all-action surgeon. It is a Bruckheimer show, after all, but, while the show will unfold in a real-time style similar to the series 24, Collette promises to deliver another unique character.
A long list of future roles awaits, and Australia has its share - ''I love working at home,'' she says. And what about theatre? Collette's first roles were a school production of Godspell and the lead in a Bicentennial musical. A few Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir roles later, she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2000 for her performance in The Wild Party on Broadway. ''I'm definitely open to it,'' she says of treading the boards again. ''[It's] just a matter of the right thing, and scheduling, because, man, if you've got to do it night after night, you want to love it and find it endlessly interesting.''
2013年07月26日
HotelFlex lets you check in and out of
Most would agree that the worst part of traveling is timing the hotel check in. Either you get off a redeye and have to figure out what to do all day while waiting to check in, or you arrive late at night and waste money paying for a room you didn’t get to use all day.
Enter HotelFlex. Part of Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch, the startup wants to change the way hotels operate so guests can check in and check out at whatever times they want – and pay accordingly wigs short hair.
So if you just need a place to sleep and check in at midnight but leave town the next morning at 7am, you’d pay a lot less for the room than someone checking in at 3pm and out at noon.
Or you could check in five hours late and leave five hours late and pay the same price as you would for standard check in times.
There are also benefits for hotels – they can generate additional revenue by getting guests to pay a little extra to check in early to rooms that would otherwise be empty during the day.
Right now the pricing is essentially pro-rata. Meaning HotelFlex will take the total price of the hotel and divide it by 20 hours, which is the standard one-day hotel window. They then multiply this hourly rate by how many hours you spend in the hotel. While this simple formula works well enough, the startup wants to tweak this to account for things like variable demand. This way hotels could charge more if a lot of guests want to check in early on particular morning, or tempt guests to extend their checkout at a discounted rate on a slow weekday CHINESE MEDICENT.
HotelFlex has no plans to become a full-fledged booking platform – right now they are providing hotels and the property management systems they use with the technology to let guests book rooms with varying check in and check out times. In return the startup takes 15 percent of any extra revenue generated by the hotel.
HotelFlex’s cofounders, Max Shepherd-Cross, Pete Turnbull and Rich Turnbull explained that properties like this integration because it lets them entice guests to book directly through their own website, where there customer acquisition cost is much lower than a third-party platform like Expedia. That being said, eventually HotelFlex wants to eventually integrate with third-party booking platforms, so people set on using these sites can still make these types of reservations .
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/28/hotelflex-lets-you-check-in-and-out-of-a-hotel-at-whatever-time-you-want/15:36 2017/8/1
Enter HotelFlex. Part of Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch, the startup wants to change the way hotels operate so guests can check in and check out at whatever times they want – and pay accordingly wigs short hair.
So if you just need a place to sleep and check in at midnight but leave town the next morning at 7am, you’d pay a lot less for the room than someone checking in at 3pm and out at noon.
Or you could check in five hours late and leave five hours late and pay the same price as you would for standard check in times.
There are also benefits for hotels – they can generate additional revenue by getting guests to pay a little extra to check in early to rooms that would otherwise be empty during the day.
Right now the pricing is essentially pro-rata. Meaning HotelFlex will take the total price of the hotel and divide it by 20 hours, which is the standard one-day hotel window. They then multiply this hourly rate by how many hours you spend in the hotel. While this simple formula works well enough, the startup wants to tweak this to account for things like variable demand. This way hotels could charge more if a lot of guests want to check in early on particular morning, or tempt guests to extend their checkout at a discounted rate on a slow weekday CHINESE MEDICENT.
HotelFlex has no plans to become a full-fledged booking platform – right now they are providing hotels and the property management systems they use with the technology to let guests book rooms with varying check in and check out times. In return the startup takes 15 percent of any extra revenue generated by the hotel.
HotelFlex’s cofounders, Max Shepherd-Cross, Pete Turnbull and Rich Turnbull explained that properties like this integration because it lets them entice guests to book directly through their own website, where there customer acquisition cost is much lower than a third-party platform like Expedia. That being said, eventually HotelFlex wants to eventually integrate with third-party booking platforms, so people set on using these sites can still make these types of reservations .
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/28/hotelflex-lets-you-check-in-and-out-of-a-hotel-at-whatever-time-you-want/15:36 2017/8/1
