For some in the working class here--the random cab driver, small-time actor, bellhop--Slim's fat-cat wealth is reason enough for suspicion.

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Perhaps it's to be expected in an industry where everyone, from the booking agent to the bellhop, is famously discreet.

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That's what you expect the bellhop to say as he points you toward the labyrinthine hallways of the Banff Springs Hotel .

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Tipping is part of traveling, from the skycap who checks your luggage to the bellhop who takes your suitcase to your room.

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Mr. Palsson, a bellhop, has no interest in whale and other traditional Icelandic foods such as smoked sheep head, goat testicles and rotten shark.

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The bellhop was gone, and so was my car key.

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Three minutes later, I found someone who called a bellhop.

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When we visited new Five-Star winner Mandarin Oriental, Boston, for example, everyone from the housekeeper to the bellhop knew our name, and the room service attendant who delivered breakfast suggested we take a house umbrella on a rainy day before we even thought to do so ourselves.

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