Bobby Zarem, the colorful New York publicist who repped Ann-Margret and Diane Keaton, contributed to the Oscar campaigns for Dances With Wolves and Shakespeare in Love and helped create the “I Love New York” campaign, has died. He was 84.
Widely regarded as the Big Apple’s king of publicity in the 1970s and ’80s, Zarem died Sunday morning in the same home in Savannah, Georgia, in which he was raised. Bill Augustin, a friend and colleague, tells The Hollywood Reporter.
In 1974, with a loan from restaurateur Elaine Kaufman — at whose eponymous Upper East Side showbiz hangout he dined twice a ...
Widely regarded as the Big Apple’s king of publicity in the 1970s and ’80s, Zarem died Sunday morning in the same home in Savannah, Georgia, in which he was raised. Bill Augustin, a friend and colleague, tells The Hollywood Reporter.
In 1974, with a loan from restaurateur Elaine Kaufman — at whose eponymous Upper East Side showbiz hangout he dined twice a ...
- 9/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Bobby Zarem, the colorful New York publicist who repped Ann-Margret and Diane Keaton, contributed to the Oscar campaigns for Dances With Wolves and Shakespeare in Love and helped create the “I Love New York” campaign, has died. He was 84.
Widely regarded as the Big Apple’s king of publicity in the 1970s and ’80s, Zarem died Sunday morning in the same home in Savannah, Georgia, in which he was raised. Bill Augustin, a friend and colleague, tells The Hollywood Reporter.
In 1974, with a loan from restaurateur Elaine Kaufman — at whose eponymous Upper East Side showbiz hangout he dined twice a ...
Widely regarded as the Big Apple’s king of publicity in the 1970s and ’80s, Zarem died Sunday morning in the same home in Savannah, Georgia, in which he was raised. Bill Augustin, a friend and colleague, tells The Hollywood Reporter.
In 1974, with a loan from restaurateur Elaine Kaufman — at whose eponymous Upper East Side showbiz hangout he dined twice a ...
- 9/26/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Producer Al Uzielli has optioned Brian McDonald’s memoir Last Call at Elaine‘s which Stigmata and The Proposition screenwriter Rick Ramage will adapt for television. McDonald was a bartender of 11 years at the former famed New York restaurant and had a prime first person Pov of the establishment’s crossroads of show business personalities and notable literary figures which included Woody Allen, Kurt Vonnegut Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, George Plimpton, Kirk Douglas, Michael Caine, Jackie Onassis, and Mick Jagger to name a few.
The project in particular is a personal one for Uzielli whose father was in the Manhattan restaurant business during the 1980s and a close associate of late restauranter Elaine Kaufman. Uzielli had many meals and celebrations at Elaine’s; its focus being an Italian menu. If you were a plebeian, it was a challenge to get a table at the venue. After Kaufman...
The project in particular is a personal one for Uzielli whose father was in the Manhattan restaurant business during the 1980s and a close associate of late restauranter Elaine Kaufman. Uzielli had many meals and celebrations at Elaine’s; its focus being an Italian menu. If you were a plebeian, it was a challenge to get a table at the venue. After Kaufman...
- 3/4/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
HollywoodNews.com: Jane Fonda‘s biographer, Patricia Bosworth, was saluted last night by Broadway producer Judy Gordon on the Upper East Side. Patti’s book, “Jane Fonda: The Public Life of a Private Woman,” is a New York Times bestseller, the latest of Bosworth’s many terrific tomes (do read her much acclaimed bios of Montgomery Clift, Diane Arbus, and of her own father, the lawyer for the Hollywood Ten).
Gordon’s A list guests included famed actor Michael Murphy, Kathryn Altman (widow of famed director Robert Altman), author Stephen Schlesinger and his legendary mom Alexandra, former French Vogue editor Joan Juliet Buck, Olympic champ and sports analyst Dick Button, writer David Black, famed director (and yes, the father) Robert Downey Sr., legendary Broadway and “Saturday Night Live” choreographer Pat Birch, producer Dennis Grimaldi, and writer-producer Maria Cooper Janis (who also happens to be the lovely daughter of Gary Cooper). After the party,...
Gordon’s A list guests included famed actor Michael Murphy, Kathryn Altman (widow of famed director Robert Altman), author Stephen Schlesinger and his legendary mom Alexandra, former French Vogue editor Joan Juliet Buck, Olympic champ and sports analyst Dick Button, writer David Black, famed director (and yes, the father) Robert Downey Sr., legendary Broadway and “Saturday Night Live” choreographer Pat Birch, producer Dennis Grimaldi, and writer-producer Maria Cooper Janis (who also happens to be the lovely daughter of Gary Cooper). After the party,...
- 9/29/2011
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
Andy Warhol with Elaine Kaufman. Photograph by Jonathan Becker. From its opening in April 1963 to its sudden (and perhaps temporary) shuttering a near half-century later on May 26, 2011, Elaine’s was a refuge for writers. The late Elaine Kaufman’s regulars were her family, and what a family they were—from Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, and George Plimpton to Woody Allen, Michael Caine, and the most legendary Saturday Night Live players. As A. E. Hotchner, a longtime patron, wrote in the July 2002 issue of Vanity Fair, Elaine’s “has a menu that makes food critics blanch, décor that will never get into Architectural Digest, prices that rival those of the Four Seasons, waiters as frantic as traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and an autocratic reservation system based on whimsy and privilege.” And yet, it endured—the literary world’s most beloved scarlet saloon. (Related: “Out to Lunch with Elaine Kaufman,...
- 5/26/2011
- Vanity Fair
The Nyt reported today that Elaine's, the venerable Manhattan saloon thrust into limbo last year following the death of its legendary proprietress Elaine Kaufman, will shutter permanently next week. The closure marks the end of a cultural institution made famous in the work and lives of numerous New York authors, journalists, actors, filmmakers and other artists. Perhaps chief among them: Woody Allen, an Elaine's regular for decades who immortalized the Upper East Side hotspot in the opening scene of his 1979 classic Manhattan. At a press gathering today in New York for his new film Midnight in Paris, Movieline solicited Allen's reaction to news of Elaine's closing its doors.
- 5/17/2011
- Movieline
I moved to New York City in 2004 with two goals: first, to attend and complete journalism school; second, to blow my first freelance paycheck on drinks and dinner at Elaine's. Because, you know, that's Where Writers Are (or at least Were) Supposed to Go. I managed the first goal without much difficulty. The second eluded me, alas, after Elaine Kaufman herself threatened to kill me.
- 12/6/2010
- Movieline
(Legendary New York restaurant owner Elaine Kaufman has died at age 81, a staggering loss to Gotham's social scene. Elaine's restaurant was a favored hang-out for celebrities, largely because Elaine would use her less-than-shy demeanor and imposing physical presence to ensure that no one pestered the stars. Long time ABC radio film critic Bill Diehl shares his memories of Elaine in this exclusive column for Cinema Retro)
By Bill Diehl
This photo was taken last year when I dined at Elaine's with my one-time intern, Emily Smolar, now a producer at Paula Zahn's "On the Case." Emily took the photo. I reminded Elaine that I first met her in the late 1960s when Wnew's Jim Lowe took me up to her restaurant at 88th and Second Avenue. "Elaine," he said, "I want you to meet one of the newest member's of our Wnew staff, newsman Bill Diehl." And as I recall Elaine said,...
By Bill Diehl
This photo was taken last year when I dined at Elaine's with my one-time intern, Emily Smolar, now a producer at Paula Zahn's "On the Case." Emily took the photo. I reminded Elaine that I first met her in the late 1960s when Wnew's Jim Lowe took me up to her restaurant at 88th and Second Avenue. "Elaine," he said, "I want you to meet one of the newest member's of our Wnew staff, newsman Bill Diehl." And as I recall Elaine said,...
- 12/4/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
I had a perfect introduction to Elaine’s, Elaine Kaufman’s legendary New York City restaurant: I was first brought there in what must have been the winter of 1980 by the late, great Claudia Cohen, then editor of the New York Post’s Page Six. Claudia knew everybody, from Elaine’s favorite strays, seated at what was known as the Family Table, across from the bar, to all the regular bold-face names. We got our own table, not far from one that included Claudia’s recent paramour Albert Finney, then starring as Daddy Warbucks in Annie. Plunging into the banter among the tables,...
- 12/4/2010
- by Cyndi Stivers
- EW.com - PopWatch
Elaine Kaufman, the well-known owner of legendary New York City restaurant Elaine's, has died, according to The New York Post. She was 81 years old.
Kaufman, who had been in failing health, died at 12:20 p.m. at Lenox Hill Hospital, a spokeswoman for the restaurant told the paper. She died from complications tied to emphysema.
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Born in 1929, Kaufman grew up in Queens and spent her early years hanging out backstage at theaters around the city. She opened Elaine's in 1963 with just $12,000 and the restaurant quickly became a go-to spot for writers in the area. Kaufman was known for...
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Kaufman, who had been in failing health, died at 12:20 p.m. at Lenox Hill Hospital, a spokeswoman for the restaurant told the paper. She died from complications tied to emphysema.
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Born in 1929, Kaufman grew up in Queens and spent her early years hanging out backstage at theaters around the city. She opened Elaine's in 1963 with just $12,000 and the restaurant quickly became a go-to spot for writers in the area. Kaufman was known for...
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- 12/3/2010
- by Kate Stanhope
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Elaine Kaufman has died at age 81 today of complications from emphysema. Kaufman's upper East Side eatery Elaine's was the toast of Manhattan for decades, a watering hole where Gotham filmmakers, pols and journalists mixed it up every night. Kaufman, whom I remember from my days at New York Newsday as a kind heart behind a tough exterior, was also a fixture at the Deauville Film Festival until about five years ago. There, she kept up on films and gossip in equal measure. She was truly a New York institution.
- 12/3/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Elaine Kaufman, who became something of a symbol of New York as the salty den mother of Elaine's, one of New York City’s best-known restaurants and a second home for almost half a century to a bevy of writers, actors, athletes and other celebrities, died Friday in Manhattan. She was 81. Her death, at Lenox Hill Hospital, was caused by complications of emphysema, said Diane Becker, the restaurant’s manager. Read more at The New York Times. Related Articles:...
- 12/3/2010
- The Wrap
Photograph by Jonathan Becker on May 14, 2002 for Vanity Fair.Elaine Kaufman, proprietress of the eponymous Upper East Side restaurant Elaine’s, died today at 81. Kaufman was also a fixture on the New York literary, media, and intellectual scenes: since its opening in 1963, Elaine’s clientele has included Charlie Rose, David Halberstam, Jules Feiffer, Nora Ephron, and Terry Southern, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer, among others. According to The New York Times, in 2003, the New York Landmarks Conservancy named Kaufman a Living Landmark. But as Gay Talese, also an Elaine’s regular, wrote in a May 1983 issue of New York magazine, “The celebrities are not determining factors in the restaurant’s enduring presence in New York. Its success is due rather to Elaine herself, an ebullient woman with a large heart that she extends selectively to a group of New Yorkers who are too disorganized to arrange their own dinner parties or nightlife,...
- 12/3/2010
- Vanity Fair
Elaine Kaufman, the brassy owner of the legendary East Side establishment Elaine's had died at 81.
The New York Post reports that Kaufman who had been in failing health and died at 12:20 p.m. Friday at Lenox Hill Hospital. She died from complications stemming from emphysema.
A memorial service was expected to take place sometime next year, although no date has been set.
Kaufman opened Elaine’s on East 88th Street in 1963 with just $12,000 and it instantly became the place where writers loved to down beers.
The 5-foot-5 Kaufman took care of a group of writers and reporters at the restaurant that included Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Gay Talese, Nora Ephron and David Halberstam,...
The New York Post reports that Kaufman who had been in failing health and died at 12:20 p.m. Friday at Lenox Hill Hospital. She died from complications stemming from emphysema.
A memorial service was expected to take place sometime next year, although no date has been set.
Kaufman opened Elaine’s on East 88th Street in 1963 with just $12,000 and it instantly became the place where writers loved to down beers.
The 5-foot-5 Kaufman took care of a group of writers and reporters at the restaurant that included Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Gay Talese, Nora Ephron and David Halberstam,...
- 12/3/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tina Mabry's "Mississippi Damned," an independent American production, won the Gold Hugo as the best film in the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival, and added Gold Plaques for best supporting actress (Jossie Thacker) and best screenplay (Mabry). It tells the harrowing story of three black children growing up in rural Mississippi in circumstances of violence and addiction. The film's trailer and an interview with Mabry are linked at the bottom.
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,...
Kylee Russell in "Mississippi Damned"
The win came over a crowed field of competitors from all over the world, many of them with much larger budgets. The other big winner at the Pump Room of the Ambassador East awards ceremony Saturday evening was by veteran master Marco Bellocchio of Italy, who won the Silver Hugo as best director for "Vincere," the story of Mussolini's younger brother. Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi won Silver Hugos as best actress and actor,...
- 10/23/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Irish film maker Alan Cooke has won the NY Emmy for Best Writing for his documentary 'Home' at the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Awards at the weekend. Home' had received an additional two Emmy nominations at the awards for Best Documentary (Producers Dawn Scibilia and Alan Cooke) and Best Photography (Dawn Scibilia). The doc is a reflection on Alan Cookes immigration to New York. Surrounding questions of the concept of home, it features interviews with Liam Neeson, Susan Sarandon, Mike Myers, Alfred Molina, Colin Quinn, Rosie Perez, Pete Hamill, Fran Lebowitz, Frank and Malachy McCourt, Elaine Kaufman, Drew Nieporent, Vinny Vella and Armand Dimele. (Woody Allen appears in TV/Cable version only)...
- 3/31/2009
- IFTN
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