Preminger needed 50 stitches near one eye after Lazar hit him with a water glass.Īngie Dickinson, however, didn't clout Mr. He made headlines in 1965 after a scuffle with director Otto Preminger at New York's 21 Club. Nixon, Noel Coward, Tennessee Williams, Irwin Shaw, John Cheever, Art Buchwald, Ira Gershwin, Moss Hart, Lillian Hellman, John Huston, Alan Jay Lerner, Richard Rodgers, Herman Wouk, Bob Woodward and longtime friend Ronald Reagan.Īnother of his clients, Quentin Reynolds, the writer and commentator, gave the agent a silver box inscribed, "Lazar is our shepherd, we shall not want." Over the years, his clients included Cole Porter, Ernest Hemingway, Faye Dunaway, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard M. He sold Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple" when it was only a five-sentence summary, a 1966 Newsweek article said.
In the 1960s, when such mega-deals were unheard of, he sold Truman Capote's novel "In Cold Blood" for $500,000 and the musical "Camelot" for $1.4 million. Lazar, who wore trademark oversize dark eyeglasses, called himself the Prince of Pitch, and he won record fees for his clients with his coaxing, coddling and bluster. Irving "Swifty" Lazar, 86, the legendary Hollywood talent agent whose image as a dapper, elfin dealmaker with Coke-bottle glasses and bald dome made him a caricaturist's dream, died of kidney failure Dec. Wigglesworth of Wheaton, and misspelled the name of a daughter, Mary Patricia Fissell. It also gave an incorrect name and town of residence for another son, Arthur M. Wigglesworth of Arcadia, Calif., from the list of survivors. Wigglesworth, which appeared yesterday, omitted a surviving son, Pierre G.
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