Saint Tropez à Go-Go

July 31, 2005

looking like the unlikely offspring of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Darth Vader, the trio grinds to club music next to a crowded outdoor pool by the beach. All around are UV-soaked men and topless women, their skin as oily and brown as freshly unwrapped Slim Jims, who lie sprawled like lotus eaters on billowing white canopy beds and mattresses. White-clad waiters rush about with water-beaded buckets of Champagne as a blonde in a white bikini begins to do acrobatic contortions, much to onlookers’ delight. It’s business as usual at Nikki Beach...