![]() Infuriated, Lazar made every journalist at the party leave mid-evening immediately after the Oscar telecast ended. Several years back, “Entertainment Tonight” reporter Barbara Howar ventured inside Spago with her camera crew after Lazar told her expressly to keep cameras outside. One complaint from a reclusive star about intrusive questions and the media person in question may find himself/herself quickly shown to the door. Reporters may not take notes or pester guests. One false move can cause the gracious host to become a tiny tyrant. Unlike the Oscar show, which credentials hundreds of journalists for backstage reporting, Lazar is very particular about who covers his affair and how it’s done. Lazar, who turned 80 last week, can be found in close proximity to the front door greeting guests while keeping a bespectacled eagle eye on the TV broadcaster or two allowed to do interviews in the restaurant’s foyer. Many of the invited guests are downtown as nominees, presenters or heads of studios with nominated films therefore, the dinner itself won’t be served until after the show. The early crowd, the one arriving at 5:30 at the West Hollywood restaurant, sips cocktails and nibbles Wolfgang Puck-style hors d’oeuvres-tiny pizzas of duck, salmon and sausage. Past guests have included: movie stars Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Barbra Streisand, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson movie power brokers and moguls Barry Diller, Mike Ovitz and Jeff Berg international jet-setters Sir James Goldsmith, Sid Bass and Mercedes Kellogg business moguls Malcolm Forbes and David Murdock and all-around celebrities Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Walter Cronkite, Johnny Carson and ad infinitum.Įxplains Lazar, “We limit our invitations to people we personally like and care about, then we also invite people that we might not know, but whom we admire.” The guests run the gamut from rich, famous and powerful to the very, very rich and legendary.
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