Each month a new volume arrived in an envelope and inside was a look at the awards by year. As a child, my parents indulged my love of Hollywood by gifting me a subscription to the Academy Award club. (Capote was still a Random Houseīut back to the Hollywood angle. Sniffed-he always called me “sonny” when he was pissed off-and he hung “IĬan see you don’t have the guts for this kind of thing, sonny,” Lazar Random House, or that Random House would let him go, and I said so. It seemed to me unlikely that Capote would want to leave House, while I was an unknown junior editor at a house not then famousįor fiction. On the best-seller lists, and was one of the bright stars at Random “Wanna do a deal with him?” At the time, Capote was high “Truman Capote,” Lazar said, way back at the beginning of our The story about Lazar offering up Truman Capote without his permission is a classic: With big name authors, Lazar would offer them up to rival publishing houses whether he actually represented the writer or not. Hollywood stars had an agent and Swifty Lazar to make deals for them. Given a bowl of celery and olives on ice and a basket of rolls." Korda in his reportage, reveals the truth about this super-agent-Lazar never considered himself an agent at all. Was swept to a red-checked table downstairs, opposite the bar, and Korda writes, "At “21,” I had only to mention Lazar’s name to be treated like royalty. Korda paints a picture of an agent, a short, perhaps foppish man with gigantic glasses who wielded power whether he was on the east or west coast. Korda is best remembered as an editor-in-Chief at Simon & Schuster.
More recently, Lazar's appearance on screen in " Frost/Nixon" reminded me what a player he was-Swifty represented ex-President Richard M. Decades later I would read Michael Korda's great piece, " The King of The Deal", which appeared in the New Yorker in March of 1993.
Irving "Swifty" Lazar was featured in one of my Academy Award books. And writers need agents to represent their work.
I had figured out that writers wrote movies.
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When I was a kid, besides reading books, I spent the remainder of my time in a movie theater. In order to get my original screenplay produced, I need an agent-a super-agent. I can't wait for that category-Best Original Screenplay-to be announced. I actually find that the build-up to the Academy Awards is maddening-I want to watch, I don't want to watch. I am a writer, so when Oscar time arrives, I find myself filled with anticipation. The 84th Annual Academy Awards air Sunday, February 26th on ABC. Chuck Pick at Spago's with Irving "Swifty" Lazar, super agent.
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