![]() ![]() and Teddy White and Ira Gershwin and Comden and Green and Neil Simon and Josh Logan and Betty Bao Lord and Lauren Bacall and Herman Wouk and Richard Nixon and, formerly, Noël Coward and Moss Hart and George Kaufman and Cole Porter, among others. The beautiful lady’s husband is Irving Lazar, at 76 still the most renowned literary agent in the world-the tiny, manic, lone-wolf deal-maker, self-styled dandy, bi-coastal commuter, globe-trotter, connoisseur, agent and friend to Irwin Shaw and Truman Capote and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. So the beautiful lady and the reporter stare at each other for a while. ![]() ‘Don’t talk to that girl! Don’t tell her anything!’ Isn’t that strange?” “Irving said the strangest thing just now,” she said. It was the beautiful lady’s husband, and so she left the room to take the call in another office. The two of them were chatting for ten or fifteen minutes about movies, screenplays, stars, options, and the lady, who runs her own independent production company, was gracious, animated, opinionated, down-to-earth. They are silent, sheepish, like schoolgirls who have been collared in the hall by a teacher and sent to the principal’s office with no idea of the offense they have committed. ![]() The beautiful lady and the reporter sit facing each other on wicker sofas in the lady’s small but elegant Los Angeles office. ![]()
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