Word: schwartzes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Arthur Schwartz, 83, Broadway and Hollywood composer who with his chief lyricist, the late Howard Dietz, wrote some of the most sophisticated show tunes of the '30s, including Dancing in the Dark, Something to Remember You By, You and the Night and the Music, By Myself, and later, and perhaps most memorably, the show-biz anthem That's Entertainment;'m Kintnersville...
...Marlyn Schwartz, 40, a 15-year veteran of the Dallas Morning News, has never been married. Without husbands, children and mortgages, what could be funny? Plenty, to Schwartz, who reported school and court news and wrote obituaries before turning to a humor column six years ago. Her three-times-a-week column turns a seen-it-all eye on the singles life...
...Landers once called her for advice (on writing about divorce, a Schwartz specialty). When the Hell's Angels hired a p.r. firm to upgrade their image, Schwartz went to the party expecting anything. She reported they were wearing designer jeans and had an ice sculpture. They sent her flowers after missing an interview. Says she: "They were mortified...
...Schwartz shamelessly takes ideas from friends' experiences. Says the writer: "It's easier to find new friends "than new columns." She also digs a working woman's elbow into dippy socialites and celebrity puritans like Diet Doctor Nathan Pritikin, whom she took to a Dallas taco joint. While he showed her how to eat healthily even there, she thought ravenously of "guilty nachos." Discovering Orlando, Fla., Schwartz announced, "Forget singles bars, forget computer matchmaking, forget gourmet dating clubs. If you want to meet a man, head straight for Disney World . . . I was there last week...
...whisked to his suite by a secret elevator. The books abound in learned footnotes and pleasant trivia (the pianist at the Waldorf's Peacock Alley uses an instrument once owned by Cole Porter, who lived in the hotel). New York restaurant critiques, by Daily News Food Editor Arthur Schwartz, are deft and sometimes devastating. At the toplofty "21" Club, the guide observes, "it is surprising how democratic the cooks and waiters are: no one gets terrific food or service...