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Marilyn Monroe’s favorite restaurant......the Villa Nova in Beverly Hills.
...Or a lesson in how to get seated fast in Hollywood!
When
I was working at the post office in Beverly Hills back in the 60’s I
had read that Marilyn often ate at the Villa Nova ...Italian
food...green spinach noodles were her favorite.
I decided I’d try it out.
You
have to dress well or that won’t even seat you...so I put on my only
suite, dress shirt and tie and headed there for an evening meal.
As
I entered there was a line of folks waiting to be seated and I
thought...well anyway...it was a good idea. I spotted at least two
celebrities (from tv) in the line and almost turned around to leave when
the maitre’d approached me and said “your table is ready”.
Ok...I was surprised...but I followed him and sat down.
I
was to discover later how this speedy seating arrangement worked in
Hollywood. A friend at work told me if they know who you are they seat
you accordingly...if they’ve never seen you before...you’ll get
priority treatment because they don’t want to make a mistake if you’re
some nova rich dude or a brand new shining star yet to gleam.
Wow...hooray for Hollywood!
...the meal was fine...by the way...and expensive!
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When
my sister Sallee and her husband Steve came from New York City for a
visit to our Stone House farm in Illinois & they discovered that
none other than Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong was playing at a big fair
about 20 miles north of there.
They said they wanted to see him in New York City but could never get tickets.
We hopped in the car and went to the Winnebago County fair and got great seats and ole Satchmo was in fine form!
We enjoyed the show immensely and I was happy to do them the favors as they had done much for me in the past.
Also...when
I was at 30 Rock getting ready to fly the Saigon for NBC News I was
able to give them a short tour of NBC’s studios. They met David Brinkley
(Sallee was thrilled) and she joked to him that she worked for RCA in
the floors above them dozens of years and had never seen NBC!
She
checked out Johnny Carson’s office (he was still doing his Tonight Show
in NYC) where a fire had broken out a few days earlier. Smelly but not
too much damage. I told her Paul Newman was shooting a film in one of
the NBC studios but they wrapped it up the day before.
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