Hedy Lamarr was one of the most glamorous Hollywood film stars of the 30s and 40s. She was born in Vienna, Austria, and rose to fame as one of MGM’s most well-known actresses, starring alongside actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer, Spencer Tracy, and Clark Gable, as well as other leading males. But few ...
When Tishman Speyer bought Rockefeller Center—previously owned by the Japanese Mitsubishi Estate—Jerry Speyer decided to overhaul the entire complex and give it a makeover. Unfortunately, this closed the center, including The Sea Grill restaurant, where I had worked for a couple of years. Before this happened, Paul Emmett, one of Restaurant Associate’s Vice Presidents, approached ...
In the mid-’90s, Al Pacino was dining quite a bit at Trattoria Dell’Arte as he was living nearby, on 57th & 8th Avenue. At the time, Pacino was riding on the successful heels of his recent film Scent of a Woman (1992) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, completed director Brian De ...
Natasha Richardson & Liam Neeson
Jackie Onassis
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
Max Roach
Keith Jarrett
Sammy Davis Jr.
Arthur Miller
Diana Ross
Richard Widmark
David Rockefeller
George Balanchine and Tanaquil Le Clerq
Sam Cohn
Tom Jones
Al Pacino
Charles Bronson
Éric de Rothschild
Tanaquil Le Clercq
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