![]() “And if they say they don’t, they weren’t invited. “This is the party everyone wants to be at,” Jackie Collins said. Irving Paul (Swifty) Lazar, Hollywood’s best-known literary and talent agent whose tenacious deal-making and star-studded client list made him a pioneer in the packaging of modern motion. Over in a quiet corner, Al Pacino sipped coffee with Jack Lemmon across the room Rob Reiner and Billy Crystal gleefully passed Kathy Bates’ Oscar around their table and Jeremy Irons grabbed Glenn Close as she was about to leave, coaxing her “to come sit with me.” Of course she did. Pete Wilson (who was told he had to leave his bodyguards at the door-there just wasn’t enough room).īy now Madonna had moved over to sit on Beatty’s lap at another table. Then, in past the Israeli security guards strode Jodie Foster, Mike Ovitz, Phil Spector, Barry Diller, Mike Medavoy, Bob Daly, Debra Winger, Alan Dershowitz and Gov. Leading the charge were Madonna and Michael Jackson, who sat with Michael Douglas and Anjelica Huston, instantly making this the “A” table. ![]() Here were three years’ worth of People magazine covers in a room half the size of a basketball court. This is when the sheer critical mass of celebrityhood in an enclosed space makes the Lazar party such an amazing event. The median age in the room dropped 20 years in 20 minutes. Guests were just finishing dinner when the second party began with arrivals from the awards ceremony and Governor’s Ball at the Shrine. Among those dining together at the tables of 10 were Jackie Collins with Marvin and Barbara Davis, Gene Kelly with Angie Dickinson and Allan Carr and Ed McMahon with Don Rickles and Bob Newhart. Among his clients were actors Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant and Gene Kelly, actresses Lauren Bacall, Joan Collins and Cher, and authors. As soon as the telecast ended, the main course of grilled gulf snapper was served. He became famous as a motion pictures talent agent, representing many of the most popular Hollywood figures during the 1930s to the 1990s, as well as many literary figures. Until the Best Picture award was announced, the guests dined on Wolfgang Puck’s designer pizza and hors d’oeuvres. Born Samuel Lazar to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Fordham University and Brooklyn Law School in 1931. For 20 seconds, the Lazars’ 140 guests were in the TV world of zirconian necklaces and discount microwave ovens. Unfortunately, her set controlled the 14 monitors in the dining area. A waitress in one of the restaurant’s upstairs offices decided she’d rather watch the Home Shopping Network than the Oscars. It was after the guests were seated and the show’s opening number half over that the only real glitch of the evening occurred. ![]()
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