Both guests and the press are told to be in their seats long before that for security reasons, so you find yourself leaving the Beverly Hills Hotel in evening clothes at 3 in the California afternoon while more rational folks are heading for the beach.
Using millimeter wave technology, which the TSA says emits 10, 000 times less radio frequency than a cell phone, the machine scans a traveler and a robotic image is generated that allows security personnel to detect potential threats -- and, some fear, more -- beneath a person's clothes.