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Some months ago, during one of his periodic fund-raising drives for Monocle, a quarterly magazine of political satire, Editor Victor Navasky, 31, put the arm on Playwright George (The Seven Year Itch) Axelrod in Hollywood. Axelrod allowed that he could comfortably spare $12,000 for the cause, but he refused to part with anything but advice. "Satirists should starve," said he. In seven years of publishing Monocle, Editor Navasky has learned that starving is just about all contemporary satirists...
...tourists. La Scala, which serves mediocre Italian food, and Chasen's, where steak is cooked under white-hot rock salt, used to be No. 1 and No. 2. Now everyone is crowding into The Bistro-perhaps because nearly everyone is a stockholder: Laurence Harvey, Tony Curtis, George Axelrod, Otto Preminger, Robert Stack, Jack Lemmon, Jack Benny, Dean Martin, Merle Oberon, Sam Spiegel...
...expert, Ichthyologist Herbert Axelrod, puts the proper aquarium proportion at two gallons of salt water to an inch of fish-a limit of five 2-in. fish in a 20-gal. tank. Sea horses-such improbable creatures that many people think them mythical-are less active and need less tank space; so slow are they, in fact, that they must be segregated from most other fish, or they will starve to death...
...soon after the war. Swiftly, his list grew until it included George S. Kaufman. Herman Wouk, S. N. Behrman, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, George Cukor. And as his personal legend developed, Lazar found himself caricatured in the work of his clients: Hart lampooned him gently, and George Axelrod mortalized his little friend as Irving ("Sneaky") LaSalle, the Hollywood literary agent in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
...established superstars, like Gary Cooper). For all his gregariousness, he can be cruel without reason, successfully plays the domestic tyrant. At dinner one evening, his wife Audrey announced brightly: "Darling, do you realize this is our anniversary?" Replied Wilder: "Please-not while I'm eating." Says Playwright George Axelrod: "Billy is essentially, not personally, mean. Most of his meanness goes into his work. He sees the worst in everybody, and he sees it funny...