SOCIAL CLIMES : Q&A; : So What’s on Your Night Stand?
What do you have on your night stand?
Dr. Stanley Frileck, Brentwood plastic surgeon, president of the UCLA Plastic Surgery Society.
“I have tons of stuff. I keep a lot of books there, I’m in the middle of 10 books all the time.
“I also keep a sketch pad in my drawer. What I do is basically designer surgery. When people come in thinking they need a face lift or an eye lift, it’s usually never that simple. So I design variations on certain procedures. Sometimes I get stuck, I can’t quite figure out what to do, and ideas often come to me around midnight, 1 in the morning.
“I also keep an old breast implant in my drawer--I use it as a paperweight. It’s made of silicone gel, I’ve had it about four or five years. It’s one of the textured kind, they’re very good paperweights.”
Anthony Ausgang, artist .
“Well, my night stand is actually an old Eatmore Apple crate from the 1930s. On it, there’s an old stove timer that I’ve turned into my reading lamp, a cheesy traveler’s clock I bought on Canal Street and, for protection, your standard knife. There’s also a bizarre-looking heater that looks like an NFL face mask but I turned that into my love light. You gotta have a love light by the bed.”
Bonnie Kyle, general manager of Bulgari, Beverly Hills .
“I have a little duomo clock from Bulgari that’s about 3 1/2 inches high. And I have a little guardian angel to look over me that someone gave me when I joined Bulgari. It’s darling, it’s just precious. I believe in it--I believe its powers are working. And I think that in 1994 its powers are going to be working even more. Then I have my phone, with two lines. I couldn’t do without it. I’m always on the phone, to New York, to Europe. And then a pad because I’m always making notes. I only sleep four or five hours a night, that’s all I need.”
Bob Flanagan, poet, artist, performance artist , much of whose work deals with the experience of having cystic fibrosis.
A back scratcher, a bronchial dilator, ear plugs, blindfold, clothes pins . . . well, sometimes these things get scattered around the room and are not on the night stand. Oh, yeah, there’s a Japanese alarm clock that, instead of an alarm, has a domineering male voice that screams, ‘1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . WAKE UP!’ ”
James Beriker, co-owner of Rustica restaurant in Beverly Hills .
“In a way, my bedside is pretty representative of who I am and where I’m going. I have a stack of old menus that I’ve collected over the years, probably from about 1974, 1975. There are menus from my father’s (Kermin Beriker) restaurants that he created, one from a bistro in Paris and old Spago menus from when my brother was there. I just love them. I love to think of the thought processes that went into them. I look at everything, the four corners, the writing, even the food stains. They help me think about our own menus.”
Tom Salter, owner, Hollywood Athletic Club:
“My god, I’d have to take a look. The TV Guide, for sure. A glass of purified tap water, photographs of my grandchildren and whatever I’m reading currently--”Lasher,” that’s Anne Rice, “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” and another mystical book of writings by Oscar Ichazo. My watch, a pen, a telephone--nothing really.”
Beck, singer/songwriter
“Some raspberries, a hatchet, a home pregnancy test, the L.A. Times and a Zippo lighter.”
Jerry Magnin, owner Polo/Ralph Lauren, Beverly Hills:
“You want a whole list? A Tiffany clock, lots of reading material on food and wine, two Peter Mayle books on Provence that I’ve already read but I like to look through to remind myself how great it is there, and an antique alligator portfolio for no other reason than it looks good.”