Her majesty, the baroness of bagels:Lauretta Rosenwald,...
Her majesty, the baroness of bagels:
Lauretta Rosenwald, a patron of Nate ‘n’ Al’s deli restaurant in Beverly Hills, called us to say that waitress Kay Coleman wore $3 million in jewelry while serving tables the other morning.
Now here’s the unusual part.
Coleman modeled the same diamond necklace and diamond earrings that Whoopi Goldberg displayed on television later that night while emceeing the Academy Awards show.
All true, says Harry Winston Jewelers of Beverly Hills, which dressed up more than two dozen Oscar-goers this year.
Coleman, it turns out, has a wise-cracking relationship with frequent customer Laurence Krashes, a senior vice president for Winston. In recent weeks, she had been telling him, “You make arrangements for all the stars to wear your jewels at the Oscars. Why not me? I’m a star here.”
Krashes said later: “Well, she is the Empress of Beverly Hills, and I adore her. So I brought in the jewels Oscar morning and she wore them from 8 until 10. I was there the whole time.” He added: “And I had security with me.”
And how appreciative was Coleman?
“Larry King came in that morning, and she forgot I was even there,” quipped Krashes.
Coleman didn’t try to hide her diamonds as she served bagels and blintzes and other breakfast fare. She told more than one customer, “Look what I got for tips!”
It wasn’t chopped liver.
THAT’S ONE WAY TO DISPOSE OF LAUNDRY: Bill Ward of Torrance found a sign in a building that hinted at a violent atmosphere--which was odd even for L.A. since it was posted in a YMCA (see photo).
PARTY ANIMALS: The Genesis Awards, which honor artists who fight for animal rights, will hold its annual awards show Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton. Numerous celebrities are scheduled to attend, including one celebrity look-alike--for Babe, the pig thespian. Wonder what this oinker’s voice sounds like.
PAPA RAZZING: When it comes to animal rights, the plight of grunion is sometimes overlooked. We thought of the little critters when we learned that the Imitation Hemingway competition is under way again. Here’s a touching passage by M.R. Montgomery from the book “The Best of Bad Hemingway”:
“There is a mountain between Santa Monica and the Avenue of the Stars. The old ones say that a grunion once climbed it, far above the high-tide line and died there, and when the smog lifts in the winter, you can see it shining in the chaparral. No one knows why the grunion came so far from the ocean to a place where there is nothing to eat and no one to love.”
It doesn’t get any worse than that, we don’t think. But if you feel down to the challenge, you can send your one-page entry to PEN Center USA West, 672 S. Lafayette Park Place, Suite 41, Los Angeles, CA 90057. Deadline is April 15. And, oh yes, you have to mention Harry’s Bar and American Grill. Truly.
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Disgruntled Lakers star Cedric Ceballos went AWOL from the team recently to go boating at Lake Havasu, as you may have heard. The incident inspired publicist Don Franken to offer Ceballos the honor of launching the Orange County Boat Show on May 2 at the Anaheim Convention Center. “I figure that anyone who would give up $30,000 a day in fines to go boating must be a fanatic about the sport,” said Franken. For some reason, Ceballos’ agent has yet to respond.
