“That’s what friends are for,” said Puck who, with his wife, had bedsided the too-sick Lazar in his ailing months. WOLFGANG PUCK and wife Barbara Lazaroff hosted the gathering afterward. told touching stories of Lazar’s affection for children - including his own son, Michael. But he was the best literary man!” Bette Bao Lord (“Spring Moon,””Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic”) called him “a pal for all seasons,” and said, “No matter how imaginative anyone was, no one could ever have invented him”… Although the Lazars had no children, George Stevens Jr. Perelman’s comment about Lazar: “He was the only man who would arrive out of a plane, train, or a boat - with his hands in his pockets.” McMurtry said Lazar never edited any of his material - he never read –“not even the book jacket quotes. Lazar would have loved noting Ray Stark, before services began, leaning over to Dominick Dunne and telling him the Menendez jury was coming in! Dunne dug into his pocket and pulled out his portable phone.ĬHRISTOPHER HART SAID his father Moss was Lazar’s first client and he noted, “Of all his big deals, packages, etc., the invention of himself was his greatest creation.”…Gene Kelly emotionally read words sent by friend Peter Viertel in Switzerland … Larry McMurtry recalled, as a boy, reading S.J. At the present time, I have fun representing Larry McMurtry, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Bette Bao Lord and authors such as Ali MacGraw, Angie Dickinson and Joan Collins … If one’s time is up, somewhere somehow, there is a beckoning and you just go, ready and well dressed for the occasion.” Ertegun noted that Lazar was a “fearless gambler - generous, elegant, and above all, a great friend.” He was also sometimes Machiavellian. Soon after that, Truman Capote, Elia Kazan, Georges Clouzot and Gloria Vanderbilt became clients, followed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Theodore White, Lauren Bacall, John Huston, Arthur Rubenstein and David Brinkley. In the ’40s there were Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Quentin Reynolds and others, in the ’50s came Richard Brooks, Lindsay Crouse, Dorothy Parker and George S. I used to terrorize the other agents when I was 40, but I’m not doing bad right now … My own philosophy has been to never miss a trick, to be in as many places simultaneously as I can … Every decade has brought new and exciting writers and friends and projects that I have enjoyed. Eighty-one! Oh, how I wish I were younger. He wrote: “I have done everything my way, perhaps selfishly, but here I am almost 81 years old, (at the writing) looking back at a life with few regrets. He had excerpts from Lazar’s upcoming book, “Swifty” (Simon & Schuster). A TRUE INSIGHT INTO LAZAR’S PHILOSOPHY was read by his close friend, record mogul Ahmet Ertegun.
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