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Agent Swifty Lazar, Pioneer Deal-Packager, Dies at 86 : Hollywood: He parlayed boldness into a star-studded client list and hosted legendary Oscar night parties.
Irving Paul (Swifty) Lazar, Hollywood’s best-known literary and talent agent whose tenacious deal-making and star-studded client list made him a pioneer in the packaging of modern motion pictures, died Thursday night.
The agent died at his Beverly Hills home of kidney failure, according to friend and social secretary Teresa Sohn. He was 86.
Dubbed Swifty after he accepted a dare and made five movie deals in one day for his friend Humphrey Bogart, Lazar had since the 1940s commanded record-setting fees for hundreds of writers, producers, directors, choreographers, composers and lyricists around the world.
For more than three decades, Lazar’s famed Oscar night party--held most recently at Wolfgang Puck’s Spago restaurant--had made him a celebrity host as well.
Distinguished by his shiny, bald head and black-rimmed Mr. Magoo glasses, the 5-foot, 2-inch Lazar had a giant reputation as a tough, sometimes brazen negotiator. He liked to say he could assemble the essential elements of a movie from his clientele--all except the actors, whose constant need for reassurance, he said, usually made them too time-consuming to h
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Swifty: My Come alive and And over Times
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Swifty Lazar: Evolved Heart, Evolved Style
The first reference I can remember seeing to Irving Paul Lazar was in S. J. Perelman’s Paris Review interview. Mr. Perelman, himself a notably stylish and fastidious traveler--I believe he drove a Mercedes along the Silk Road as far as Tashkent--mentioned in passing that the only man he knew who could step off an airplane anywhere in the world with his hands in his pockets was Irving Lazar.
I was a youth when I read that passage, and did not understand what a resonant tribute it was: a compliment paid by one great stylist to another. As a wordsmith S.J. Perelman was impeccable; as a traveler, like most of us but unlike Irving, he tended to get frazzled.
Irving Lazar’s style, at home or abroad, did not tolerate frazzlement. He stepped off the plane with his hands in his pockets--excellently turned pockets, too--minus such impediments as the suit bags, claim checks, diaper bags, crumpled tickets and lost composure that burden most mortals when they travel.
A mere six weeks before Irving’s death I dined with him at Chasen’s. He was in a wheelchair then. When we returned home he wheeled himself around his house for a while, looking for some object or other to give me; while he wandered and considered, remembering the shop off Bond Str