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Throwing a $200,000 Birthday Party
the Beverly Hills Hotel has always been a big meeting place for the celebs. Yeah, take the Polo Lounge, for instance. Yeah, the lounge used to have phones at the tables, and people used to— up-and-coming stars used to have people page them to the phones at the Polo Lounge so their name could be heard in the Polo Lounge. So it was, uh, it was quite a thing, you know.
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Were they competitive or were they, were they jokesters?
No, no, they were— it was totally cool. It was like, yeah, he was looking, he's like, yeah, I got it, turned his headlights on, you know. And then, but, you know, it was just very surreal.
Was the Beverly Hills Hotel like, at the time, was that like a big, uh, meeting place for a lot of big celebs? Like, is that like a place that everyone would always get dinner? How—
the Beverly Hills Hotel has always been a big meeting place for the celebs. Yeah, take the Polo Lounge, for instance. Yeah, the lounge used to have phones at the tables, and people used to— up-and-coming stars used to have people page them to the phones at the Polo Lounge so their name could be heard in the Polo Lounge. So it was, uh, it was quite a thing, you know.
Wait, what does that mean?
Like, so you would— you can actually get telephones. They bring telephones to your table.
Okay.