With its hot bodies and pulsating dance clubs. Thats all a marketing reinvention of a much older miami beach. No, we need to go back 50 years or month when caddies with tail fins were pulling into the newest, glitziest hotel in the west. The fountain bleu. Steven gaines wrote about the era in his book fools paradise. It became a destination for the rat pack, frank sinatra, major stars were a at the fountain bleu, and lots of movies were being filmed there as well. He needed a queen to preside over his palace. He found one in a former cocacola model named bernice. With her beauty and effortless charm, bernice turned out to be the perfect host to entertain the gangsters and guests who made the fountain bleu in its day. They lived in the hotel in a penthouse suite. Then came along a young prince, ben novak, jr. Ben jr. Would be trotted out to shake the hands the likes of jfk, then it was back in the Hotel Elevator to home. Birthday cakes came from room service. And the kids who came to th