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She loved the rush of promotion and press junkets, moving from five-star hotel to five-star hotel, a massive shift from her time as a theater actor.

He visited Israel for 10 days on a literary junket run by critics of Israel and returned to write, by his own account, a one-sided, wholly impressionistic indictment of the country.

“They have a nice little junket for a couple of weeks, they hear a couple of cases and then they’re flown out again,” he said.

At a press junket for her new sci-fi movie Atlas last week, Lopez dismissed a question concerning reports of problems with her marriage.

Movie stars, however, are still forced to run the promotional gauntlet, taking part in the endless junket interviews and red carpet appearances written into their contracts.