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...Morocco"? Lyons heard it there and so reported. What did Artur Rubinstein's wife cook for dinner the night before? The pianist gave Lyons the answer (Polish chicken) at the Côte Basque. Was it true that Jacqueline Susann met that other author, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., at Sardi's? Lyons was there as a witness...
...night she spotted Tom Ewell dining alone at Sardi's. "Hi, I'm Sue Mengers, and I wish you would answer my calls," she twittered gaily, dropping her business card in his soup. Giggles, apologies-and before the evening was over Ewell had signed. She wined and dined Tony Perkins for eight months until he hired her. She pursued Paula Prentiss and Husband Dick Benjamin even through Paula's nervous breakdown, visiting her at the hospital "when no one else would," recalls Benjamin; five years later they signed. Grins former Partner Korman: "She would have made...
Stampeded in recent years by voracious freeloaders, the New York Film Critics decided to make their awards ceremony strictly a private affair. The bash at Sardi's was closed to reporters and all but a few pressagents and publicists. The critics did relent enough to let in the winners and their stand-ins, like John Gielgud, who collected the Best Actor's prize for Laurence Olivier (Sleuth). Liv Ullmann not only grabbed the prize as Best Actress (Cries and Whispers) but picked up three awards for her director Ingmar Bergman (Best Director, Screenplay and Picture awards for Cries...
...writers over the years included H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner, Louella Parsons, Ben Hecht, George Jean Nathan and Heywood Broun, who was fired. When it carried Walter Winchell's "Beau Broadway" column in the 1920s, the Telegraph was studied as closely as Variety at Broadway restaurants such as Sardi's and Lindy's. Even in recent years the paper kept five staffers on the show-biz beat. One of the most popular writers in the 1950s was Columnist Tom O'Reilly, who used to write a Monday piece. As Saul Rosen, 66, the paper...
...running. "He has an internal clock," says Wife Sylvia, "and the alarm is always on. We should have a fire pole in our room." TIME Correspondent Jill Krementz jogged along with Lyons on his recent rounds. After a light breakfast (juice, coffee, Rice Krispies), the legman is off to Sardi's, the first stop on a whirlwind tour of mid-Manhattan's choicest restaurants. Already he sounds like Alice's white rabbit: "I'm late, I'm late...