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Throwing a $200,000 Birthday Party
Like, so you would— you can actually get telephones. They bring telephones to your table.
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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 th…
Wait, what does that mean?
Like, so you would— you can actually get telephones. They bring telephones to your table.
Okay.
And so they would— people would page people, oh, telephone call for Michael Douglas or Humphrey Bogart or Elizabeth Taylor, and then they would bring it to the phone, or they'd have the phone at the table.
Oh my God, just so your name was heard inside the Polo Lounge.