15-Dec-2006  (yacht cruise)

• 'Pyrotechnics (San Jose Mercury News)
Board a Hornblower Holiday Cruise Imagine kissing your New Year's honey on the deck of a yacht beneath a raining sky of fireworks. Sound ideal? It'll cost you a pretty penny, but you only celebrate New Year's Eve once -- a year! Choose from four five-hour cruises, from an all-out four-course dinner package with hosted bar and live band to a scaled-down hors d'oeuvres, chocolate fountain and ...
• 'Looking for New Year's plans? 10 ways to ring in 2007 (San Jose Mercury News)
This New Year's Eve, get out of your fuzzy slippers and off your couch to celebrate this grown-up holiday with pizazz. Hire a sitter, get decked out, meet up with friends, have a toast and dance the night away.
• 'What the Kiwi gossip mags say (Stuff)
It's the festive season but there is little Christmas cheer in the gossip mags this week. A cancer scare and a horrible honeymoon make the headlines, along with one celeb who won't be on Santa's 'good' list this year.
• 'Tom and Katie's Coming-Out Party (E! Online via Yahoo! News)
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes traded an Italian castle for the Beverly Hills variety Saturday night, as the newlyweds were feted by some of the most powerful players in show biz at the home of Cruise's longtime producing partner, Paula Wagner, and her husband, Rick Nicita.
• 'Set sail for luxury: Fulfill your fantasies with cruise on Heiress' former private yacht (Boston Herald)
A BOARD THE SEA CLOUD -With the British Virgin Islands slipping past on either side, I looked up at a complex web of lines and masts supporting al- most an acre of sail that stretched 178 feet into...