A world of thanks to all those around the world who have contributed to this book: The Boeing Company, Alexandra de Borchgrave, Mel Brooks, Leslie Caron, Daniel Cohen, Howie Cohen, Roger Choukroun, Renee Corbally, Tad Dowd, Francesca Drommi, Eddie Gilbert, Olivia de Havilland, Louise Duncan, Joanne and Jerry Dryansky, Ralph Elder, Dodge Fielding, Frank Filerino, Karen Mason Fitzgerald, Nandu Hinds, Barbara Warner Howard, Patricia Geoghegan, Gisele Galante, Virginie Guyonnet, Chilla Heuser, Isabelle and Marc Hotimsky, Priyanka Krishnan, Stephane Lambert, Kenneth Jay Lane, Jim Lowenstein, Jose Luna, Musée Air France, Pan Am Historical Foundation, Dr. Ivo Pitanguy, Marie-France Pochna, Michael Pochna, Rupert Prior, Eduardo Rabel, Eric Rayman, Annie Reiner, Carl Reiner, Rex USA, Victoria and Jack Risko, Dana Ruspoli, Tony Scotti, Adam Shaw, Penn Sicre, Jean Signoret, Jacques Silberstein, Nadia Stancioff, Mimi Strong, Gay Talese, André Terrail, Taki Theodoracopulos, Charles Trueheart, Sylvie Vartan, Dimitri Villard, Freck Vreeland, George Weidenfeld, Sandy Whitelaw, Ron Winston.
Special thanks to my agent, Dan Strone, an epicure in the grand Jet Set tradition, who believed in this project, with both his heart and his stomach; to his assistant Kseniya Zaslavskaya, a maestro at securing photographic permissions; and to my editor, Susanna Porter, who had a wonderful ability to keep this high-flying book grounded enough to cast its spell on both armchair dreamers who are still down on the farm as well as glittering globetrotters who’ve seen Par-ee and everything else.