![]() ![]() While other “Prizzi’s Honor” nominees Robert Loggia and William Hickey arrived later in the evening, co-stars Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston never materialized. The director, gracious and charming, was first among everyone’s stated disappointments about the Oscars (he lost to Sydney Pollack). Huston, whose emphysema required that he wear a tube around his neck connected to a supply of oxygen, spoke at length with Caine and Shepard. The most honored guest was unquestionably John Huston, who arrived shortly after the ceremony ended and entertained a steady stream of visitors to his table for the next few hours. These are the people I grew up with,” he said. The most comfortable of the younger guests seemed to be Gene Kelly’s son, Tim, who sat on a flight of stairs with a date, amiably surveying the action. “But it’s the best I had,” Michael said with a grin and a shrug. Wham! heartthrob George Michael seemed more at ease as he passed through the crowd, although his white T-shirt and blue cotton blazer didn’t quite conform to the Lazars’ time-honored black-tie dress code. Molly Ringwald materialized with a date around 10:30, looking uncomfortable and nervous. The Lazar gala remains a bastion for Hollywood’s 35-and-up crowd, although some younger faces joined the party this year. Outfits ranged from belly-baring sarongs to beaded turbans and ostrich-feather headdresses to full-poof, white prom dresses that looked as though they had sprung from parachutes. James Stewart, George Burns, Johnny Carson, Walter Matthau, Jacqueline Bisset, Alexander Godunov, Michael Caine and Glenn Ford were among the crowd watching the Oscars on numerous television sets scattered throughout chef Wolfgang Puck’s chic Sunset Strip eatery.įashion statements were almost incomprehensible here this year. While organizers of the academy-sanctioned Governors Ball struggled to provide star glamour (see accompanying story), the Lazars’ party-held once again at Spago-was effortlessly awash in the stuff from the moment it started at 5 p.m. However, for the last quarter decade, Lazar and his wife, Mary, have provided the only constant on a night known for its serendipity-a 200-plus person party chock-full of the famous and real famous (the near-famous need not even apply). He seems a most unlikely party animal, this tiny, bald and bespectacled, almost-an-octogenarian literary agent. Superagent, was living up to his nicknames as he deftly handled the guests at yet another of his star-saturated Academy Awards parties Monday night. He greeted Barbra Streisand, made sure that Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange and Kathleen Turner were comfortable, paused to chat with John Huston and bantered briefly with Steve Martin. ![]()
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