Ritz
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(Redirected from The Ritz)
Ritz or The Ritz can refer to:
Hotels:
- Ritz Hotel, a hotel overlooking Green Park in London
- Hôtel Ritz Paris, a hotel in Paris, France
- The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC, parent company to the Ritz-Carlton hotel brand
People:
- César Ritz (1850–1915), hotelier
- Walter Ritz (1878–1909), theoretical physicist
- Rosalie Ritz (1923–), pioneering courtroom artist
- Gerry Ritz (1951–), Canadian federal politician
- Janet Ritz, author and musician
- David Ritz, author
- The Ritz Brothers, comedy team from the 1920s through the 1960s
- Ritz Malheur, a fictational character in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Music
- Puttin' on the Ritz, a popular song by Irving Berlin
- Ritz, a rock song by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
- The Ritz, a barbershop quartet that won the International Championship in 1991
Television, theatre, and films:
- The Ritz, a BBC television series in 1987
- The Ritz, a Broadway play by Terrence McNally
- The Ritz, the film version of the play
Rock clubs
- Ritz, a rock club in New York City in the 1980s
- Ritz, a 1970s Austin, Texas rock club, in which Roky Erickson recorded a live album
- The Ritz, a Manchester, England rock club, in which Ian Gillan and The Charlatans have both recorded
Other uses
- Ritz Camera Centers, in the United States
- Ritz Video, a chain of video rental stores in the United Kingdom that was bought out by Blockbuster Inc.
- Ritz Crackers, a brand of snack crackers
- Ritz, a lunar impact crater located on the far side of the moon
- Ritz Malheur, a major character in the Final Fantasy Tactics Advance game
- Ritz Metro, a Mexican snack.
- Ritz Newspaper, sometimes Ritz Magazine, the defunct monthly UK fashion and gossip periodical published by David Bailey and David Litchfield.
