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as Beverly Sills and Luciano Pavarotti all have or have had homes within a small radius of Lincoln Center.

If you happen to be a news or talk-show aficionado, New York City is your mecca. Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings, and Phil Donahue are among the numerous personalities who live here.

Comedians often cite the bustling mosaic that is New York as inspiration for their best material. Joan Rivers tapes her television show in New York. Rodney Dangerfield owns a comedy club on the Upper East Side. Woody Allen makes his movies almost exclusively in Manhattan, and when he's hun-gry he visits the Carnegie Deli to eat pastrami with fellow funnymen like Bill Cosby, Milton Berle, and Henny Young-man.

Manhattan scores with sports celebrities, too. Joe Namath, 0. J. Simpson, and John McEnroe are frequently spotted at the city's hottest restaurants. One popular hangout for athletes is Mickey Mantle's Restaurant and Sports Bar, where the "Mick" himself is often on hand signing autographs.

Celebrities tend to cluster at certain restaurants. Often these eateries are owned by fellow entertainers. Others, like Sardi's and the Russian Tea Room, are New York landmarks that have been serving Manhattan's elite for years. Celebrities also frequent a select few ultraswank hair and beauty salons. Stars can be spotted at these establishments any day of the week.

A majority of celebrities residing in Manhattan prefer to live in areas bordering Central Park. Some stars opt for the serenity and sophistication of the Upper East Side. Many ra-diate toward the artsy Upper West Side. Still others prefer to project a chic downtown persona and therefore reside in the cutting-edge neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Tri-beca.

star trekking

Some of your favorite stars are a dodgy lot. Brooke Shields enters a 57th Street movie theater just before the credits roll, sits in the back row, and retreats as the final tine is spoken. Sunglasses and a kerchief do little to conceal Sophia Loren as she shops the pricey 5th Avenue boutiques close to home. Katharine Hepburn promenades through town in slacks, her chin held high, as befits the independence of spirit for which this Hollywood legend is renowned. Al Pacino enjoys dis-

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guising himself as pal Dustin Hoffman as he watches roller skaters in Central Park. David Letterman dons shades for his stroll down Canal Street, wishing he could duplicate the chameleonlike skills of neighbor Robert De Niro, known to take extreme measures to recreate his body for a particular film. (Just about the only technique Robert hasn't used in his char-acter preparation is plastic surgery-not yet, anyway!)

Other celebrities, however, enjoy the commotion and ad-oration that come from fan recognition. Madonna loves teas-ing hordes of admirers with her escapades as she roves about town. Bar and restaurant owners Patrick Swayze, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Matt Dillon consider their fame critical to building the clientele of their respective es-tablishments. Michael J. Fox and Bill Cosby bend over back-ward to accommodate their throngs of loyal fans.

As in any exact science, there are rules to follow when one hopes to spot a favorite celebrity. Always be alert and aware, since some of your most awe-inspiring discoveries will happen when least expected. Stars clothe themselves at the same stores we browse in and they buy food at our neighborhood grocers. Their dogs do not walk themselves, but, like ours, they pull on a leash attached to a human hand. And when a child needs to be taken to a piano lesson, the youngster musn't be kept waiting, even if Mommy or Daddy has to interrupt that phone call about a multipicture deal.

If a face appears familiar but is dismissed as an imposter because of a hat, mustache, scarf, or glasses, you've probably been too hasty in your judgment. I'll never forget the time Bob Hope told me emphatically that I was mistaken, he wasn't the celebrated comedian-actor-golfer. I found that the jokester had put one over on me when moments later the man holding open the limousine door said, "Good morning, Mr. Hope." Cher is one of many performers who dress in clothes one would never expect to see on so flamboyant a star. She enjoys Man-hattan because here one can dress down without fear of dis-approval. Seeing Christie Brinkley with her glowing face unobstructed one day and covered in dark glasses and kerchief the next can create havoc for stargazers.

Frequenting the places your favorite stars are known to fancy can turn chance into probability. If you know that a particular celebrity enjoys being seen in a certain Gotham eatery, by all means make a reservation. If the star owns the restaurant, he or she is even more likely to be there. Hairdressing salons are also wonderful for spotting all kinds of celebrities. For a few extra dollars, why not get those bangs trimmed at a salon that caters to your favorite performers? Charity events and Broad-

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way openings are also perfect stargazing occasions. Hoping to he noticed, the rich and famous do themselves up and turn on the charm.

Just remember that celebrities, like yourself, need their privacy. Never disturb them while they enjoy a meal, converse with a friend, or relax at home. If the opportunity to meet them arises, tell them how much you enjoy their work. Be courteous. The courtesy they show in return may surprise you.

the star sleuth

Madonna jogging through Central Park lacking make-up and having her hair bundled up under a baseball cap cleverly screening those trademark features, Joan Rivers walking dog Spike down Madison Avenue, Michael Douglas and Dustin Hoffman lunching in adjoining booths at the Russian Tea Room, Brooke Shields munching popcorn at a local cinema- these are but a few of my celebrity sightings during just the last several months.

Whether I am uptown or down, indoors or out, whether it's day or night, a celebrity often appears. A number of sight-ings have occurred near areas cordoned off to accommodate film crews. New York can seem like a film studio's back lot, with the multitude of features, commercials, rock videos, and television shows being shot all over town.

I am puzzled that so many journalists portray New York as a city where no people in their right mind would ever reside. That view obviously is not held by the thousands of major celebrities who call Gotham home.

In researching the whereabouts of stars' homes, as well as their favorite restaurants, hairstylists, and health clubs, cre-ative methods were called for. Long talks with doormen, wait-ers, beauticians, dry cleaners, butchers, and elevator operators were important. Horse-drawn carriage drivers and chatty cab-bies were excellent sources of information.

After double- and triple-checking such sources, I realized that a trip to the city's Bureau of Records would be worthwhile. Long hours of verifying ownership reports proved most valu-able.

I discovered more than one thousand homes of celebrities in Manhattan. My conclusion was that New York City is the home of stars. This island is where the rich and famous began their careers and where they have come to reap the benefits now that they've reached their goals.

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UPPER UPPER WEST SIDE

STARS IN THE AREA

Kevin Bacon Robert Duvall Michael J. Fox Mick Jagger Tatum O'Neal Tony Randall Arnold Schwarzenegger Beverly Sills Meryl Streep Barbra Streisand

NUMBER	ADDRESS	NAME
1	6 West 77th Street	*Peter Allen (deceased) Nancy Friday Bonfire of the* Vanities**
2	100 West 78th Street	Christopher Reeve
3	101 West 79th Street	Boy George Billy Jean King Cleo Laine
4	118 West 80th Street	Christopher Walken
5	15 West 81st Street	Liv Ullmann
6	11 West 81st Street	Teri Garr Nastassia Kinski
7	211 Central Park West	Tatum O'Neal John McEnroe Peter Jennings Diane Sawyer Mike Nichols Helen Gurley Brown Isaac Stem Beverly Sills Tony Randall Phyllis Newman Adolph Green Rock Hudson (deceased) Meyer Lansky (deceased) Margaret Mead (deceased)
8 9	241 Central Park West 123 West 85th Street	Richard Dreyfuss Howard Rollins
10	10 West 86th Street	Christine Lahti
11	271 Central Park West	Meryl Streep Mark Hamill Jane Pauley Garry Trudeau Laurence Luckinbill Lucie Arnaz

12	275 Central Park West	Arnold Schwarzenegger Maria Shriver
13	27 West 87th Street	Linda Lavin
14	176 West 87th Street	Jackee Harry
15	113 West 88th Street	Earl "the Pearl" Monroe
16	279 Central Park West	Yasmin Khan Miles Davis (deceased)
17	285 Central Park West	Ed Bradley Joyce Randolph
18	55 West 90th Street	Barbara Hershey
19	300 Central Park West	Michael J. Fox Tracy Pollan Faye Dunaway Garrison Keillor Tuesday Weld Pinchas Zuckerman
20	320 Central Park West	Barbra Streisand Dianne Wiest Swoosie Kurtz
21	250 West 94th Street	Barnard Hughes
22	710 West End Avenue	Ronnie Spector
23	666 West End Avenue	Charles Grodin
24	585 West End Avenue	Raul Julia
25	173 Riverside Drive	Diahann Carroll Vie Damone
26	155 Riverside Drive	Margaux Hemingway
27	137 Riverside Drive	Kevin Bacon Kyra Sedgwick
28	257 West 86th Street	Robert Duvall
29	225 West 86th Street	Isaac Bashevis Singer (deceased)
30	118 Riverside Drive	Anne Meara Jerry Stiller
31	110 Riverside Drive	Babe Ruth (deceased)
32	225 West 83rd Street	Harvey Fierstein
33	470 West End Avenue	Penny Marshall
34	465 West End Avenue	Barbara Barrie
35	440 West End Avenue	Jill Clayburgh
36	304 West 81st Street	Mick Jagger
37	390 West End Avenue	Network Eyewitness Heartburn
38	365 West End Avenue	Tony LoBianco

This trendy area between 75th and 96th streets attracts a broad range ot famous entertainers, intellectuals, and arty eccentrics. Barbra Streisand, Mick Jagger, and Beverly Sills are examples

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of the varied creative luminaries who populate the Upper, Upper West Side.

This tour will take you through a hodgepodge of architec-tural delights, beginning with the beautifully designed building that was the former home of Peter Allen and ending with the residence of Tony LoBianco.

Since residents are noticeably more relaxed and friendly than in most other parts of town, the celebrities you might pass on the tour will probably reflect that attitude. Remember always to be friendly and courteous, and never disturb a star at his or her home or in a restaurant.

A diversity of interesting-looking residents in a setting of extraordinary buildings makes this a perfect location for feature films and television shows. Scenes for NBC's "Law and Order" are frequently shot close to the Hudson River. And just about every street near the American Museum of Natural History has been used in a major film. Such movies include The Fisher King, starring Robin Williams; Neil Simon's Chapter Two; and The Pick-up Artist, with Molly Ringwald.

The area to be covered on this tour is bounded by West 75th Street on the south, West 96th Street on the north, Central Park West on the east, and Riverside Drive on the west.

*Starting Address:*	Central Park West and 77th Street
*Length of Tour:*	2 Hours, 35 Minutes
*Best* Starting Time:	10:00 A.M. or 2:00 P.M.
*Subway:*	A, B, C, or D to 81st Street
*Bus:*	7, 10, 11, or 79
*Bring Along:*	Canteen, breath mints, and trendy clothing

the tour

Our journey begins a few doors away from Central Park West, on 77th Street. From the subway stop at Central Park West and 81st Street, head south down Central Park West. Make a right on 77th Street. On your left will be our starting point.

One block north on Columbus Avenue, at 101 West 79th StreetR is a building with a fascinating mix of celebrity occupants. One spacious pad belongs to flamboyant vocalist Boy George, whose outrageous theatrics have made him one of the most successful British ruck stars to hit the States. This singer-songwriter is a perfect fit, especially when in costume, for the freethinking spirit New York's West Siders are known to possess. Other residents of this prestigious building include outspoken tennis pioneer Billie Jean King and singer-actress Cleo Laine, known for her role in The Mystery of Edwin Drood on Broadway.

A block further north and a few doors left of Columbus, at 118 West 80th Street⁴ lives actor Christopher Walken, a native New Yorker known for his exceptional work in dozens of movies, including The Deer Hunter (1978). Since Chris-topher has also appeared in over a hundred plays, he appre-ciates his home's proximity to New York's Theater District.

Brunch at Sarabeth's Kitchen, 423 Amsterdam Av-enue, (212-496-6280) reminds one of waking up in a Vermont country inn. Enjoy the aroma

of freshly baked bread and pastries as you dine on homemade delicacies. A major lunching spot for actors, models, and soap stars, this cozy eatery is a stargazer's paradise. The restaurant is on Amsterdam Avenue, only a few doors west of our present location.

We now walk to 81st Street, turn right, and head two blocks east toward Central Park. Great dramatic actress and natural beauty Liv Ullmann has a luxury apartment at 15 West 81st Street.⁵ Born in Tokyo, but of Norwegian descent, Liv spent part of her childhood in Gotham and returned to New York in later years to star in many Broadway hits. Nominated for two Academy Awards, Liv is also active in UNICEF and other major charities.

One afternoon, Liv Ullmann tore down a New York 5 street in hot pursuit of screen legend Greta Garbo. Liv was hoping to discuss her role in Anna Christie, one which her follow Swede had made famous decades before. Unfortunately. Gurbo the Great got away, so we'll never know whether she was following her credo. "I tunr to he alone,", or if she had simply seen Liv's performance and wasn't impressed.

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the office as he is at home. This fellow ABC journalist, cohost of "Prime Time Live," lives in the Beresford with her husband, Mike Nichols, the film and stage director who's earned six Tony Awards. He's won an Oscar, too-for his direction of The Graduate, the 1967 film that introduced the world to Dustin Hoffman.

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peter Jennings seemed at ease as he signed for deliveries arid checked tenants' IDs while sitting in the Beresford's lobby during the summer of 1991. The anchorman had turned doorman'for-a-day because the regular workers were on strike.

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Also residing in one of the Beresford's three illuminated towers are author-publisher Helen Gurley Brown and her New York-horn husband, filmmaker David Brown. Helen's best-selling book, Sex and the Single Girl was the launching pad she used to take over and revitalize Cosmopolitan magazine.

Violinist Isaac Stern, who plays some two hundred concerts a year, has an elegantly furnished home in the same building, as does another legendary musician, Brooklyn-born opera star Beverly Sills, known as "Bubbles" to friends and fans.

Yet one more show-biz resident of the Beresford is Tony Randall. Tony, who moved to New York at age nineteen to study acting with Sanford Meisner, is best known for his role as the obsessive Felix Unger on the hit comedy series "The Odd Couple." Actress Phyllis Newman and her husband, New York-born lyricist Adolph Green, are another celebrity couple in the star-studded building.

Rock Hudson had a six-room home in the Beresford until his death in 1985. Shortly after his death, a number of his belongings were taken from the residence and sold for charity at a New York auction house. Underworld boss Meyer Lansky and anthropologist Margaret Mead also had homes in the Beresford. Meyer was a resident through the 1940s while Mar-garet lived there until her death in 1978.

This area's unique character has made it a location site for many film and television productions. The Pick-up Artist (1987), starring Molly Ringwald, was set in the vicinity of the Museum of Natural History. The horses in the Robin Williams movie The Fisher King (1991) came down 81st Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues. In Neil Simon's Chapter Two (1979), James Caan had his home on 76th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. TV's "The

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Equalizer" and "The Hard Way" were filmed at the Beacon Theater, 2142 Broadway, as well as on neighborhood streets; and on West End Avenue, Paul Sorvino is contantly seen acting in scenes for "Law and Order." Many of these location sites lie along the route of this tour.

Our next stop is the residence of energetic and likable Brooklyn-born actor Richard Dreyfuss, who resides three blocks north along the park at 241 Central Park West.⁸Richard won an Academy Award for Best Actor in The Good-bye Girl (1977). Shot in Gotham, the film costarred Richard's fellow West Sider Marsha Mason.

We now head a block north to 85th Street, turn left, and proceed just past Columbus Avenue to our next residence. At 123 West 85th Street⁹ is the home of actor Howard Rollins. His neighbor, at 10 West 86th Street¹⁰ is actress Christine Lahti, who received an Academy Award nomination for her supporting role in the 1984 film Swing Shift. She resides one block north and one block toward Central Park from Mr. Rollins.

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Christine Lahti abandoned her maiden N.Y. City acting job because she lacked proper tolerance for the freezing cold and snow. Working as a mime in Central Park only a few feet from her present home, Christine decided that indoor employment was more to her liking. She felt a white painted face that turned red would not be convincing to her customers.
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Around the comer and a block north along the park resides delicately beautiful leading lady of American stage and screen Meryl Streep. Her home is at 271 Central Park West.¹¹ Born across the river in New Jersey, Meryl originally moved to the Big Apple with the hope of becoming an opera singer, and for a time she studied with Beverly Sills's voice teacher. In the same building resides actor Mark Hamill, known for his role as Luke Skywalker, the boyish hero of the Star Wars trilogy.

Television reporter Jane Pauley and her husband, Garry Trudeau, creator of the "Doonesbury" comic strip, also have their home at 271 Central Park West. Other residents of this

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Amsterdam Avenue, (212-724-4707) on the same block. The regular customers of this seafood lover's emporium include Shelly Winters, Alec Baldwin, Peter Max, and George Bums.

Next, head north to 88th Street, turn right, and walk east. One hundred thirteen West 88th Street¹⁵ is the home of former New York Knickerbocker Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, one of the flashiest players in basketball history. If you see Earl driving up to his town house in a Rolls-Royce, he might be returning from one of his frequent meetings with troubled

youth.

If you have extra time, you might enjoy a five-to-ten-minute stroll-north one block along Columbus Avenue and west one block on 89th Street-to the neighborhood horse stable! The Claremont Riding Academy, at its unlikely 175 West 89th Street location, is always prepared to rent mounts to such celebrities as Diana Ross, Jacqueline Onassis, and William Hurt for leisurely trots through Central Park. In the 1981 movie Eyewitness, William Hurt opened the gates of this hundred-year-old landmark, allowing the horses to roam free and help him overpower a murderer.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch-anyway, east along 89th Street to Central Park West, then south one block to 279 Central Park West¹⁶ -we have the home of Yasmin Khan, daughter of actress Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan. In the same building lived jazz trumpeter Miles Davis until his death in 1991. One of music's true innovators, the legendary jazzman's influence will be felt by generations of jazz artists to come.

Backtracking a block along Central Park, we come to a classically designed building at 285 Central Park West,¹⁷home of broadcast journalist Ed Bradley of "60 Minutes." Ed, whose spacious home is decorated with art and photos from his work and travels in Asia, takes full advantage of neigh-borhood eating establishments and works out at a local health club six days a week.

Two hundred eighty-five Central Park West is also home to actress Joyce Randolph. Joyce is remembered as Trixie Nor-ton, wife to Art Camey's Ed, in "The Honey mooners," Jackie Gleason's popular television series of the fifties.

Walk two blocks north to 90th Street and stroll west. Fifty-five West 90th Street¹⁸ is where sensuously beautiful actress Babara Hershey has her residence.

Carmine's 2450 Broadway, (212-362-2200) is a popular, inexpensive family-style restaurant with a Little Italy atmos-phere that you might want to partake of one evening. The

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only drawback is the usual hour-long wait for a table. Even stars like Kevin Bacon have been Coo hungry to wait. The restaurant is reached by directing yourself west on 90th Street a couple of blocks, making a right on Broadway, and heading a few doors north.

Kevin might have skipped the wait at Carmine's to head up the street to another favorite restaurant. At 2452 Broadway, the Pumpkin Eater (212-877-0132) features healthy, naturally prepared foods. One waitress gloats about serving Alec Bald-win, who tipped her a $100 bill for no other reason than that he liked her.

We now return to Central Park West and one of the hottest buildings in town. The Eldorado, 300 Central Park West,¹⁹attracts the most famous of stars with its beautiful twin towers and richly decorated lobby. The Art Deco structure was used by writer Herman Wouk as the fictional residence of his heroine Marjorie Momingstar. East to Central Park West and south a short distance will place you at the Eldorado.

Superstar of television and film, Michael J. Fox is one of the many celebrity inhabitants of the Eldor-ado. Actively involved in a number of New York charities, Michael recently made an unusual donation to the New Dramatists (an organization devoted to as-sisting up-and-coming playwrights): a very snappy "doodle" that was auc-tioned off at the Russian Tea Room. Ironically, Mi-chael's real-life wife is ra-diant actress Tracy Pollan, who played his girlfriend on the hit television serial "Family Ties."

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Michael J. Fox hasn't let his fame hide his friendly nature. Recently spotted in front of his Central Park West residence, loading his automobile with bundles of diapers, the superstar treated on-lookers to a smile and a few soft-spoken words.

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The Eldorado is also home to lovely leading lady Faye Dunaway. Faye, whose career was launched in 1962 when she joined the Lincoln Center Repertory Company, has starred in such blockbusters as Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Chinatown (1974), and Network (1976). In the same building resides writer and radio host Garrison Keillor.

Another blond actress who lives at the Eldorado is Tuesday Weld, a native New Yorker typecast as a sex kitten in many other film and TV roles. Also living in the building is violinist and conductor Pinchas Zuckerman. This virtuoso is regarded as one of the finest musicians of our time.

Superstar of stage, screen, and recording, Brooklyn-born Barbra Streisand resides at 320 Central Park West²⁰ only a couple of blocks farther north. Barbra worked in Manhattan as a switchboard operator and then as a theater usher before winning a Greenwich Village nightclub contest. Soon after that victory, she appeared in I Can Get It far You Wholesale, the 1962 musical revue in which she played opposite her hus-band-to-be (and ex-husband-to-be), Elliott Gould. She then starred as Fanny Brice in the sensational 1964 Broadway mus-ical hit Funny Giri. Finally, in 1970, she was presented with a special Tony Award as Actress of the Decade. A few years back, Barbra tried to move crosstown to 1021 Park Avenue but was rejected by the building's board of directors. Seems the stodgy East Siders wanted to avoid the spotlight that fol-lows this top celebrity everywhere she goes.

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When a superstar calls for emergency medical assistance, the problem may be critical. Recently, Barbra Streisand could not return to the set of The Prince of Tides until her favorite manicurist rushed to the star's home to repair her sickly fingernail.

Barhra's neighbors in this luxurious building at 320 Central Park West include actresses Dianne Wiest, best known for the neurotic characters she plays in many Woody Alien films, and Swoosie Kurtz, winner of two Tony Awards.

Our journey now takes us west toward the scenic Hudson River. Head two blocks north to 94th Street, turn left, and walk three blocks. The last street you cross should be Broad-way. If your feet need a rest, take the 96th Street crosstown bus; otherwise, a brisk fifteen-minute walk will bring you to the home of an outstanding character actor, New York-horn Barnard Hughes, at 250 West 94th Street.²¹

Walk west to the end of the block and make a right, and you come to 710 West End Avenue,²²where you'll find the residence of Ronnie Spector, lead singer in the 1960s rock-and-roll band the Ronnettes. Sarcastically witty actor Charles Grodin, who learned his craft from Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen, lives a couple blocks south at 666 West End Avenue.²³ Continue south to find the home of Broadway and film star Raul Julia, who resides at 585 West End Avenue.²⁴

Farther west, keep an eye out for Diahann Carroll. This actress and singer, who began her career performing at New York nightclubs while studying sociology at New York Uni-versity, resides at 173 Riverside Drive²⁵ with her husband, singer Vie Damone. Their home is reached by walking one block west on 88th Street, turning right, and heading north two blocks.

Two blocks south brings you to actress and model Margaux Hemingway, labeled the "Face of a Generation" after ap-pearing on the covers of Vogue and Time magazines, who has her home at 155 Riverside Drive.²⁶ Another two blocks down, at 137 Riverside Drive²⁷ in a luxurious yet discreet location, is the home of handsome young film star Kevin Bacon and his sweet, comely blond-haired wife Kyra Sedgwick.

A brisk five-minute walk east on 86th Street brings you to 257 West 86th Street.²⁸ home of Robert Duvall, a remarkable actor known for the intricate detail he pours into every char-acterization. His neighbor a few doors east, at 225 West 86th

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Street²⁹ was Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who died . 1991. This great writer, who spent the last thirty years of his life as an integral part of the West Side community, was a frequent patron of neighborhood restaurants, where he would order only vegetarian meals.

Heading back west along 86th Street, we turn left on Riv-erside Drive. Two blocks down, we come to the home of husband-and-wife comedy team Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller. They have an attractive home in a luxurious building at 118 Riverside Drive³⁰ overlooking the Hudson. Continuing south, we arrive at 110 Riverside Drive,³¹ where legendary New York Yankee Babe Ruth had an eleven-room home he shared with his wife, Claire Hodgson Ruth, until his death in 1948. Walk two blocks east, along 83rd Street, to 225 West 83rd Street,³² the residence of Tony Award-winning actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein. We next retrace our steps west on 83rd Street to West End Avenue, where we turn left and walk a few doors down.

Actress and director Penny Marshall spent her early years tap-dancing in her mother's New York dance school. Penny, who costarred in the hit TV show "Laverne and Shirley," has her home at 470 West End Avenue.³³ Nearby, at 465 West End Avenue,³⁴ is the home of movie and stage actress Barbara Barrie.

Continue south a block to the home of actress Jill Clayburgh, the daughter of prominent Manhattanites, who iron-ically was nominated for an Academy Award for her characterization of a wealthy, intelligent, emotionally over-wrought New Yorker in the 1978 movie An Unmarried Woman. An avid jogger, Jill and her Reeboks can often be spotted close to her home at 440 West End Avenue.³⁵

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UPPER WEST SIDE

STARS IN THE AREA

Lauren Bacall Michael Douglas Mia Farrow Dustin Hoffman Madonna Steve Martin Marsha Mason Paul Simon Sting Bruce Willis

NUMBER	ADDRESS	NAME
1	61 West 62nd	Jacqueline Bisset Alexander Godunov
2	25 Central Park West	Alexis Smith (deceased) Ethel Merman (deceased)
3	1 West 64th Street	Madonna Melanie Griffith Don Johnson Ed Asner Carol Kane
4	41 Central Park West	Gwen Verdon
5	50 Central Park West	*Three* Men and a Baby
6	55 Central Park West	*Ghostbusters* Marsha Mason Calvin Klein
7	10 West 66th Street	Isaac Asimov (deceased)
8	45 West 67th Street	Phoebe Cates Kevin Kline
9	1 West 67th Street	Leroy Neiman Richard Thomas Joel Grey Noel Coward (deceased) Norman Rockwell (deceased) Rudolph Valentino (deceased) My Dinner with Andre The Money Pit
10	75 Central Park West	Carroll O'Connor Jimmy Breslin
11	Tavern on the Green	Only When I Laugh Qhostbusters Heartburn
12	19 West 68th Street	James Dean (deceased)
13	80 Central Park West	Gloria DeHaven

14	88 Central Park West	Paul Simon Sting Celeste Holm Joan Copeland
15	15 West 70th Street	Maureen Stapleton
16	135 West 70th Street	Candace Early
17	155 West 70th Street	Jonathan Frakes Jeannie Francis
18	171 West 71st Street	Daryl Hannah
19	27 West 72nd Street	Tiny Tim Martin Balsam
20	15 West 72nd Street	Shelley Winters Parley Granger
21	12 West 72nd Street	Sigourney Weaver
22	115 Central Park West	Fred Astaire (deceased) George S. Kaufman (deceased) Isadora Duncan (deceased) Frank Costello (deceased) Meyer Lansky (deceased) Lucky Luciano (deceased) Milton Berle Zero Mostel (deceased)
23	101 Central Park West	Jack Weston Dorothy Loudon
24	1 West 72rd Street	Lauren Bacall
		Roberta Flack
		Rudolf Nureyev (deceased)
		Connie Chung
		Maury Povich
		John Madden
		John Lennon (deceased)
		Yoko Ono
		Sean Lennon
		Rex Reed
		Leonard Bernstein (deceased)
		Judy Holliday (deceased)
		Boris Karloff (deceased)
		Rosemary Clooney
		Rosemary's Baby
		House of Strangers
25	135 Central Park West	Carly Simon
		Mia Farrow
		James Levine
		Susan Strasberg
		Lee Strasberg (deceased)
26	145-146 Central Park West	Bruce Willis
		Demi Moore
		Dustin Hoifman
		Diane Keaton
		Elaine May
		Keir Dullea
		Mary Tyier Moore

		Barry Manilow
		Mick Jones
		Billy Squire
		Victoria Tennant
		Steve Martin
		Rita Hayworth (deceased)
		Jack Dempsey (deceased)
		Harold Arlen (deceased)
27	151 Central Park West	Michael Douglas
		Diandra Douglas
		Basil Rathbone (deceased)
28	333 West End Avenue	James Taylor
29	336 West End Avenue	Larry Storch
30	300 West End Avenue	Harry Belafonte
31	290 West End Avenue	Christopher Columbus
32	2109 Broadway	Igor Stravinsky (deceased)
		Florenz Ziegfeld (deceased)
		Enrico Caruso (deceased)
		*Three Days of the* Condor**
33	277 West End Avenue	Bemadette Peters
34	270 West End Avenue	Paul Sorvino Marion Brando
35	266 West End Avenue	Mae West (deceased)
36	263 West End Avenue	James Earl Jones Judith Rossner
37	330 West 72nd Street	Lori Singer
38	254 West 72nd Street	Ashford and Simpson
39	271 West 70th Street	Tama Janowitz
40	315 West 70th Street	Cicely Tyson

The Upper West Side, stretching roughly from West 61st to West 76th Street, is the single-most-star-studded area in Man-hattan. Within this neighborhood is an area I have labeled Star Walk, a ten-block strip along Central Park West that contains the greatest concentration of movie stars and other celebrities anywhere in the world. This tour begins with Jacqueline Bissett's residence and culminates with the home of the stunning actress Cicely Tyson.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a focal point of the area. For the stars, it's a short walk to this world-renowned arts complex, which stages ballets, operas, and concerts, as well as theatrical productions and film festivals. Lincoln Cen-ter has been used as a backdrop in many films, including The Turning Point (1977), starring Anne Bancroft as a prima bal-lerina, Mel Brooks's The Producers (1968), in which Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel danced with joy around the center's impressive fountain, Cher and Nicholas Cage in the delightful

comedy Moonstruck (1987), and the 1984 box-office block-buster Ghostbusters.

ABC television studios inhabit huge chunks of Upper West Side real estate. Many entertainers refer to these ABC prop-erties as the "campus," an appropriate term, since numerous stars reside in the classic buildings clustered around these broadcast facilities.

The area we will be covering on this tour is bounded by West 61st Street on the south, West 76th Street on the north, Central Park West on the east, and Riverside Drive on the west.

*Starting Address:*	Broadway and 62nd Street
*Length* *of Tour:*	1 Hour, 50 Minutes
*Best Skirting Time:*	10:00 a.m. or 2:00 P.M.
*Subway:*	A, B, C, D, 1, or 9 to Colum-bus Circle
*Bus:*	5, 7, 10, or 104
*Bring* *Along:*	Pencil and paper, lunch money, opera glasses, and camera

the tour

We begin our tour only a few doors west of Broadway on 62nd Street. The Broadway bus takes you to within only a few yards of the comer of 62nd Street. From the Columbus Circle subway stop at Broadway and 59th Street, head north on Broadway, past the New York Colliseum on your left, for three blocks. Make a left onto 62nd Street and on the north side of the street is our starting point.

A luxurious building at 61 West 62nd Street¹ is home to beautiful actress Jacqueline Bisset and her partner, Alexander Godunov, the stunning Russian ballet star. Jacqueline had an early longing to become a ballet dancer herself but gave it up because she was too tall.

Since you're around the comer from Lincoln Center, why not check out what's playing in this all-in-one cultural mecca? Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts stretches along Broad-way between 62nd and 66th streets. If you enjoy the dancing

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of Mikhail Baryshnikov, the singing of Luciano Pavarotti, or

the acting of any number of stars, then this spot is for you! In the summertime, you might stop for a drink at one of the outdoor cafes that surround a magnificent fountain in the very center of Lincoln Center Plaza. Gaze past the fountain and you'll notice two murals suspended just inside the Metropolitan Opera House. These paintings are the work of the late Russian-born artist Marc Chagall.

Heading east toward Central Park along 63rd Street and making a right on Central Park West, we come to the Century building, 25 Central Park West,² which replaced the ill-fated Century Theater in 1931. The Century is the former residence of actress Alexis Smith (born Gladys Smith) who died at the age of seventy-two on June 9, 1993. This huge Art Deco structure was also at one time home to the full-throated singer-actress Ethel Merman. One block north on Central Park West, we arrive at our next destination.

Madonna, who resides at 1 West 64th Street³ is not only the neighborhood's most famous star, she's also one of the most frequently spotted. O'Neais (212-787-4663), owned by actor Patrick O'Neal a few doors west at 49 West 64th Street, is known to be one of her favorite restaurants. Stargazers mention regular sightings of the singer jogging or riding her bicycle home from Central Park. Although one of the world's highest-paid enter-tainers, the "Material Girl" saved a penny or two when her residence was recently remod-eled: She hired her designer brother to do the job.

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Before she moved into her present digs. Madonna tried to purchase a home in the San Remo (145 Central Park West) in 1985 for $1.4 million. Her offer was refused, however, because the building's board wanted to dodge potential problems stemming from her fame and notoriety. (The star had recently been featured in revealing Playboy and Penthouse layouts and the publicity was intense.) Interestingly enough, actress Diane Keaton was the only board member to insist on the singer's acceptance.

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Recently, sexy New York-born actress Melanie Griffith and her husband, movie and televi-sion star Don Johnson, took up residence in Madonna's 1 West 64th Street building. In the same complex resides Ed Asner, long featured as the grumpy but lovable Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyier Moore Show," and the talented actress Carol Kane. Their neighbor in the same building, although with a different street address, 41 Central Park West,⁴ is Tony Award-winning Broadway hoofer Gwen Verdon.

Major morion pictures are constantly being filmed in and around the buildings along Central Park West. Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg, and Tom Selleck shared a penthouse at 50 Central Park West© in the 1987 movie Three Men and a Baby. Next door, at 55 Central Park West,⁶ Sigourney Weaver found spooks in her kitchen in Ghostbusters, the 1984 blockbuster. Actress Marsha Mason (Neil Simon's ex) and fashion designer Calvin Klein both reside in that very same, very spirited building. Our next stop is a short walk west on 65th Street from Central Park West.

Sfuzzi, 58 West 65th Street, (212-873-3700) is one of the trendy Italian restaurants in the area that attract stars like Billy Joel, Robin Williams, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. This bistro is a good choice if you plan a cultural evening at Lincoln Center.

In the area surrounding West 66th Street and Columbus Avenue, you will find ABC television studios, where shows such as "All My Children," "One Life to Live," "Loving," "Ryan's Hope," "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," "20/20," "Good Morning America," and "World News Tonight" are produced. (See Chapter Eleven for information on how you can obtain free tickets to attend some of these shows.)

Isaac Asimov, the famed science-fiction writer, had his home across from ABC Studios at 10 West 66th Street,⁷between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West, until his death in April of 1992. A block west on 66th to Columbus

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Avenue, a right, and another right takes you to 45 West 67th Street,⁸ the residence of celebrity couple Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline.

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When Shakespearean actor Kevin Kline fell in love, the real-life Romeo packed up his belongings and moved into the home of his Juliet, actress Phoebe Cates. I Love You to Death was the name of the 1990 film in which Kevin appeared, not one of the marriage vows he exchanged with Phoebe during their 1989 wedding.

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Located a few doors east on the same block at 1 West 67th Street⁹ is the Hotel des Artistes, a beautiful New York land-mark originally intended to house sculptors and painters. This elaborate building with its double-height windows and carved stone figures covering the exterior is still home to at least one painter, Leroy Nieman, who is well known for his colorful depictions of sports heroes.

Another inhabitant of the Hotel des Artistes is New York-born actor Richard Thomas, best known for his Emmy Award-winning portrayal of John-Boy in the television series "The Waltons." His parents, Richard and Barbara Thomas, once owned the prestigious New York School of Ballet. Richard's neighbor in the building is the versatile Joel Grey, famed as the evil master of ceremonies in Broadway and film versions of the musical Cabaret, for which he won both Tony and Oscar.

Former residents of this classic hotel include Noel Coward, Norman Rockwell, and Rudolph Valentine.

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Rudolph Valentino rented a bachelor pad at Hotel des Artistes in 1922. The silent-screen heartthrob was married at the time, but his wife Jean Acker, was living in California.

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The restaurant Cafe des Artistes (212-877-3500) takes up much of the hotel's ground floor. This romantic dining spot is enhanced by its huge murals, the work of artist Howard

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Chandler Christy, depicting naked romping nymphs. This New York City institution was featured in the 1981 movie My Dinner with Andre and the 1986 comic farce The Money Pit.

Our next stop takes us east to 67th Street and Central Park West. When New York-born actor Carroll O'Connor played Archie Bunker in the television sitcom "All in the Family," he may have had to ignore some of the lessons he taught his students when he was an English teacher in the city's public schools. Carroll resides at 75 Central Park West¹⁰ in the same building as gritty New York newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin.

Tavern on the Green

Looking east, just inside Central Park, across from 67th Street, is a magically designed restaurant in a spectacular set-ting. Tavern on the Green¹¹ (212-873-3200) has been seen in many films, including Only When 1 Laugh (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), and Heartburn (1986). Stars the world over consider this fantasy of lights a must-see on visits to Gotham.

Walk north one block on Central Park West, turn left, and a few doors down on 68th Street is our next location. James Dean, the movie star who symbolized his era, never relinquished the twelve-foot-square New York apartment he acquired early in his career. This "rebel without a cause" re-, turned to this 19 West 68th Street¹² home in 1955, a few months before his fatal auto accident.

Retrace your steps back

along 68th Street to 80 Central Park West,¹³ the home of stage and screen actress Gloria DeHaven. With the decline of the screen musicals in the fifties, Gloria switched to the New York stage and more dramatic roles.

Continuing north, two of the world's most successful mu-sicians live in a luxury limestone high rise at 8? Central Park West.¹⁴ Although the music of Paul Simon is very different from that of Sting, both ot these rock-and-roll superstars seem inspired by intellectually conceived notions and a desire to do good deeds.

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Also residing at 88 Central Park West is New York-born actress Celeste Holm, who had to walk only a few doors down to 50 Central Park West for her appearance in the 1987 film Three Men and a Baby. Joan Copeland, another veteran of stage and screen, lives at 88 Central Park West, as well.

Next, we walk north on Central Park West to 70th Street and turn left. A few doors down, in a four-story walk-up at 15 West 70th Street,¹⁵ resides the very talented actress Maureen Stapleton. Maureen moved to Gotham in the 1940s, when she was a waitress by day and an acting student by night. Continue along 70th Street, heading west to reach the homes of some of television's most popular performers.

Since several TV soap operas are taped in the area, many soap stars reside here, too. Among them is Candace Early, who lives in a stunning building, restored in 1928, at 135 West 70th Street.¹⁶ Her neighbors a few doors west at 155 West 70th Street,¹⁷ are actor Jonathan Frakes and his soap-star wife, Jeannie Francis. One block north, the corner of 71st Street and Broadway, takes us to our next destination.

Sexy film star Daryl Hannah has made a big splash with handsome prosecuting attorney John F. Kennedy, Jr. Their romantic adventures are the frequent subject of New York tabloids. Daryl's home in the very sculptured twelve-story Dorilton complex, built in 1902, at 171 West 71st Street¹⁸ is an ideal spot to find solitude from a hectic schedule of both studying film at New York University and preparing for an upcoming movie role. cafe

Cafe Luxembourg (212-873-7411), 200 West 70th Street, has a charming and cozy atmosphere that attracts actors such as Tom Cruise and Kevin Kline. A meal at this pricey bistro might be a fun adventure to begin a special evening. Walk back to 70th Street, turn right, and just past Amsterdam Avenue will put you at the entrance.

Actors Christian Slater, Gary Oldman, Annabella Sciorra Gary Busey and basketball coach Pat Riley prefer the casual setting and the huge pasta portions offered at Columbus Trattoria (212-799-8090) 201 Columbus Avenue. The restaurant is also a hangout for many N.Y. Ranger hockey players in-cluding Brian Leetch, Mark Messier and Mike Richter. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert De Niro and Regis Philbin had ownership of this bustling neighborhood eatery up until the end of 1992. The restaurant is located on the comer of 69th Street and Columbus Avenue and can be reached from Cafe Luxembourg by walking east on 70th Street two blocks and south a block on Columbus Avenue.

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................................... If your dream is to marry a movie star, pull up a chair at Coiumbus Trattoria. That's what Vanessa Sorvino did. Actually, actor Paul had invited her friend over to his table, but when Vanessa tagged along, he knew he'd found the woman who would bring "law and order" to his life.

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Need rest and refreshment? I suggest heading two blocks north on Columbus Avenue and stopping at the ice cream parlor and eatery to which actress Mia Farrow takes her children when they deserve a sweet treat. Diane's, 249 Columbus Av-enue, is known not only for its frosty delights but also for its excellent hamburgers.

Continue north one block to 72nd Street, turn right, and halfway down the block is our next stop. On 72nd Street, with its unusual mix of commercial and residential buildings, resides naive comic singer Tiny Tim in a high-rise hotel with a friendly staff. Tiny lives at 27 West 72nd Street,¹⁹ as does Oscar and Tony Award-winning actor Martin Balsam.

A few doors east, at 15 West 72nd Street,²⁰ is the lavish home of colorful actress Shel-ley Winters, who learned her craft in New York at the Actors Studio. Another film star in the building is Parley Granger.

Tall and beautiful leading lady Sigourney Weaver lives in a luxurious building across the street at 12 West 72nd Street.²¹ This accomplished native New Yorker is the daughter of a British actress and a former president of NBC.

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Straight ahead on 72nd, at the southwest comer of Central Park West, we come upon one of the most elegant and pres-tigious apartment houses in New York City, the Majestic, 115 Central Park West. ²² The edifice was built on the site of the old Hotel Majestic, a prominent resort in the early 1900s and the residence of such notables as Fred Astaire, George S. Kaufman, and dancer Isadora Duncan. Rebuilt in 1931, the Majestic has been home to some celebrities not known for their frendliness: Underworld chieftains Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano all had mammoth apart-ments here. More likely to make you smile comedic greats Milton Berle and Zero Mostel, also had residences in the building for many years.

Backtrack a short distance south on Central Park West to the home of actor Jack Weston at 101 Central Park West.²³ Jack supported himself in New York as a dishwasher and elevator operator before his career gained momentum. His neighbor in the building is actress Dorothy Loudon. We next backtrack north on Central Park West to the northwest corner of 72nd Street.

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The Dakota, 1 W. 72nd Street

The Dakota, 1 West 72nd Street,²⁴ may well be New York's top celebrity address. Their attraction to the German Ren-aissance-style building overlooking Central Park can easily be explained with one glance at its chateaulike design.

Completed in 1884 from plans by Henry Hardenbergh, who also designed the Plaza Hotel, this stately structure was so isolated that New Yorkers joked that it might as well be out in the Dakotas. Designed to accommodate any number of

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servants, the building boasts a large wine cellar and huge residences with fourteen-foot ceilings.

Countless luminaries from all areas of the entertainment industry have been tenants on the Dakota's roster. The list includes rock-and-roll stars, leading actors and acresses, and a world-renowned composer.

Beautiful New York-born actress Lauren Bacall, once dubbed "The Look" by a studio publicity department, has long lived in the Dakota. Lauren has been a vivid figure on the Gotham scene, beginning with her early years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, then as a cover-girl model, fol-lowed by her emergence as a screen goddess, and culminating with a Broadway run that won her a Tony.

Another Dakota resident is one of the nation's top vocalists, Grammy Award-winner Roberta Flack. Her former neighbor in the building was one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of our time, Rudolf Nureyev. Rudolf, who was perhaps the greatest male dancer since Vaslav Nijinsky, died of cardiac complications resulting from AIDS in January of 1993 at the age of 54.

News anchor Connie Chung and her polished talk-show host husband, Maury Povich, have a luxurious home in the Dakota, as does former pro football coach and television sports commentator John Madden.

The Dakota is still home to Yoko Ono, widow of the de-ceased Beatle John Lennon. In honor of her slain husband, who was shot and killed at the building's entrance in the fall of 1980, Yoko donated funds for Strawberry Fields, a peaceful garden across the street in Central Park. Their son, singer-songwriter Sean Lennon, lives at the Dakota, as well.

It's easy to understand why film critic and celebrity inter-viewer Rex Reed chose the Dakota as his home. It's conve-nient to have a decade's worth of interviews within a three-block radius.

Other luminaries who have resided in the Dakota have included Leonard Bernstein, Judy Holliday, Boris Karloff, and Rosemary Clooney.

Ms. Clooney was definitely not, however, the subject of Rosemary's Baby. The 1968 film boosted the building's noto-riety and piqued the public's curiousity concerning the Dakota. House of Strangers (1949) starring Edward G. Robinson fea-tured the landmark complex in an earlier feature film. The book Life at the Dakota, by Stephen Birmingham (Random House, 1979), brought to light more tales involving the res-idents. Photographers, both amateur and professional, are con-stantly lurking around the building, scouting for a favorite star

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or just enjoying its classic setting. A constant parade of lim-ousines flows through the iron gates that adorn the 72nd Street entrance.

Continue north along the park one block to the Langham, 135 Central Park West.²⁵ This building's lobby is ornately decorated with marble and bronze and with crystal chan-deliers. In 1905, when the structure was erected, the four suites per block-long floor each rented for over $4,000 per year. Today's residents, who must have to shell out a much larger sum, include singer-songwriter Carly Simon. Carly is presently writing children's books under the auspices of her editor, East Sider Jacqueline Onassis.

Also living in the Langham is the delicately beautiful actress Mia Farrow, who until most recently was often spotted with ex-boyfriend Woody Allen and her children, strolling leisurely through Central Park. Woody used Mia's Langham residence in his 1986 film Hanna and Her Sisters, in which Mia starred.

The Langham, 135 Central Park West

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ia Farrow lives with her many natural and adopted children (including Satchel, her child with Woody Allen) at 135 Central Park West, while ex-boyfriend Woody lives across the park. Ironically enough, Diane Keaton, Woody's ex-girlfriend (and ex-leading lady), resides next door to Mia.

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Conductor and pianist James Levine also has his spacious home in the Langham, as does New York-born actress Susan Strasberg. Surprisingly, Susan never attended the Actors Stu-dio, the legendary dramatic training ground headed by her father, Lee Strasberg. Lee had an elegant home in the Lang-ham until his death in 1982.

We now head north a block to one of the most star-studded build-ings in Gotham. Major entertainers flock to the San Remo, a massive twin-towered complex at 145-146 Central Park West.²⁶

Movie-star couple Bruce Willis and Demi Moore recently pur-chased a $10 million home in the San Remo. The location is perfect because it's within walking distance of Bruce's new restaurant, Planet Hollywood, at 140 West 57th Street. Bruce has lived the Ameri-can dream, rising from his humble New York beginnings as a bartender at the Kamikaze nightclub to his present lifestyle as a wealthy, hap-pily married superstar and father.

Dustin Hoffman is another actor who started at the bottom, washing dishes, checking coats, and selling toys at Macy's during his rise to stardom. Now able to afford a luxury residence at the San Remo, this remarkable acting genius enjoys jogging through Central Park or lunching at the Russian Tea Room, 150 West 57th Street.

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Dustin Hoffman is a favorite among doormen in the San Remo. This generous actor regularly takes them along when he attends major sporting events.

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Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton, who studied her profession in New York with Sanford Meisner, has her home in the San Remo. Another resident at this prestigious

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address is talented actress, screenwriter, and director Elaine May. Actor Keir Dullea and Brooklyn-born television and movie star Mary Tyier Moore also live here.

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Mary Tyier Moore called upon celebrity pet groomer Lee Day, who came to her home and sang to her dog, Dash, while shampooing the pampered puppy's coiffure. The event was enlivened when Dash shot Mary in the face with soap while the actress was accompanying Lee in a popular show tune.

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Another San Remo inhabitant is singer-composer Barry Manilow. Fellow resident musicians include rock guitarist Mick Jones and rhythm-and-blues soloist Billy Squire.

Most of the celebrities in the San Remo choose to live in the 145 Central Park West tower, but some home buyers have been bucking the trend. One such couple is Victoria Tennant and her "wild and crazy" husband, Steve Martin, who oc-cupy a home at 146 Central Park West in the Sam Remo's second tower.

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Steve Martin and. wife, Victoria Tennant, are slowly expanding their territory in the exclusive San Remo. In Manhattan, the only way to increase the size of your home is to convince your neighbors to move. Steve and Victoria have purchased the residence next to theirs and will soon combine the two units.

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Past residents of the San Remo have included Rita Hayworth, the legendary screen star of the 1940s, and Jack Dempsey, the world-champion prizefighter. Songwriter Harold Arlen also called the San Remo home until his death in 1986. Just up the street, at 151 Central Park West,²⁷ is the Kenilworth, where superstar Michael Douglas lives with his wife, Diandra. Their early-nineteenth-century Russian furnishings, working fireplaces, and dazzling view of Central Park make for a very

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comfortable home. This imposing prewar architectural mas-terpiece was also the residence of Basil Rathbone, otherwise known as the cunning Sherlock Holmes.

The Kenilworth, 151 Central Park West

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Area residents recall spotting Frankenstein (Boris Karlaff) and Sherlock Holmes (Bosit Rathbone) strolling side by side through Central Park. The two actors were close friends and lived near each other.

A brisk ten-minute walk toward the Hudson River-two dol-lars by taxi, if your feet are sore-brings you to the home of singer James Taylor at 333 West End Avenue.²⁸ If you choose to walk, your best bet is to head one block north on Central Park West, turn left onto 76th Street, and go four blocks west to West End Avenue; turn left there, and a few doors south is Taylor's residence. His neighbor across the street, at 336 West End Avenue,²⁹ is Larry Storch, who starred in the sixties sitcom "F-Troop."

Continue south a few blocks to the residence of New York-born actor and calypso vocalist Harry Belafonte, who has an attractive home at 300 West End Avenue.³⁰ Director Chris-topher Columbus, discovered by America in the hit comedy family movie Home Alone, resides a few buildings south at 290 West End Avenue.³¹ Head east one block on 74th Street to the comer of Broadway to arrive at our next location.

The Ansonia, 2109 Broadway,³² is a stunning building built in the style of hotels on the French Riviera. The build-ing's thick soundproof walls have made it a favorite of musical figures like composer Igor Stravinsky, impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, and tenor Enrico Caruso. The structure also houses the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. (If you need to use a pay phone, the Ansonia has a few of them, too-just stop in the lobby.) The Ansonia was featured in the engrossing

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1975 mystery film Three Days of the Condor, in which Robert Redford flees for his life from the building's back exit. We now walk west back to West End Avenue, turn left, and stroll one block south to our next stop.

At 277 West End Avenue,³³ we come upon the residence of New York-born actress Bernadette Pe-ters, who has been a stage and screen success since the age of five. Bemadette's neighbor is actor Paul Sorvino, also a New York native. Paul lives across the Street at 270 West End Avenue,³⁴ where Marion Brando lived while acting on Broad-way early in his remarkable career.

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If you'd like to "come up and see me some time," you're late: buxom bombshell Mae West, who resided at 266 West End Avenue,³⁵ passed away in 1980.

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Continuing south, distinguished Tony Award-winning actor James Earl Jones has his home at 263 West End Avenue,³⁶as does best-selling author Judith Rossner.

The excitement of busy 72nd Street attracts performers such as actress Lori Singer, who resides at 330 West 72nd Street.³⁷ Her home can be reached by turning right onto 72nd Street from West End Avenue. Lori's neighbors are the soul-singing duo Ashford and Simpson, who live east one block at 254 West 72nd Street.³⁸ We continue again down West End Avenue and make a left on 70th Street.

Author Tama Janowitz, who lives with her two Yorkshire terriers at 271 West 70th Street,³⁹ helps to continue the tradition of the Upper West Side as a literary center. A few doors west resides talented Cicely Tyson, at 315 West 70th Street.⁴⁰ Cicely, once married to jazz great Miles Davis, co-founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem in hope of giving some-thing back to the community in which she was raised.

Walk one long block east on 70th Street to Broadway to find bus transportation north and south. Turn left, and two blocks north on Broadway will bring you to the 1, 2, 3, or 9 subway trains.

TOUR 3

REGARDS TO BROADWAY

MIDTOWN WEST

STARS IN THE AREA

Gene Hackman Angela Lansbury Maureen McGovem Virginia Mayo Al Pacino Jane Powell Nipsey Russell Jack Warden Irene Worth Steve Van Zandt

NUMBER	ADDRESS	NAME
1	301 West 57th Street	Gene Hackman
		Al Pacino
		Eileen Fulton
2	322 West 57th Street	Steve Van Zandt
3	340 West 57th Street	Virginia Mayo
3	340 West 57th Street	Hal Holbrook
4	350 West 57th Street	Christopher Hewett
		Georgia Engel
		Arthur Tracy
5	347 West 57th Street	Greg Gumbel
6	353 West 57th Street	Nipsey Russell
7	435 West 57th Street	Will Jordan
8	899 10th Avenue	*Fame*
8	899 10th Avenue	*Up the* Down Staircase
9	353 West 56th Street	Melvin Van Peebles
10	333 West 56th Street	Irene Worth
		Dee Hoty
		Carole Shelley
11	230 West 55th Street	Jane Powell
12	250 West 52nd Street	Neil Simon Theater
13	1697 Broadway	Ed Sullivan Theater
14	1681 Broadway	Broadway Theater
15	1634 Broadway	Winter Garden
16	1633 Broadway	Gershwin Theater
17	234 West 44th Street	Switch
18	400 West 43rd Street	Jack Warden
19	484 West 43rd Street	Angela Lansbury
19	484 West 43rd Street	Eric Douglas
20	529 West 42nd Street	Maureen McGovern
21	435 West 22nd Street	Rip Torn

Starring in a major mo-tion picture can make an actor rich and fa-mous . . . but Broad-way is where legends are made. Performers know that critics rarely rave about an actor's skill and versatility unless that star has shown competence night after night in front of a live audience. Recently, movie stars, television actors, and pop-music performers have taken

to the Broadway stage in droves. Singing sensation Debbie Gibson, who debuted January 7, 1992, in the long-running Broadway production of Les Miserabies, dreamed of this op-portunity to prove herself as an actress. The twenty-one-year-old young singer dispelled her teenybopper image when she brought the house down with an incredible performance.

Al Pacino, Angela Lansbury, Irene Worth, and Gene Hackman number among the many stars who reside in and around the Theater District. There is an excitement, an elec-tricity, that these talented performers enjoy just by being on the scene. Even stars who haven't performed on a stage for years anxiously await their next chance to walk those few block onto a Broadway stage and into immortality.

The final leg of our journey takes us to the colorful neigh-borhood of Chelsea. Celebrities hoping to enjoy a relaxed and quiet environment, where town houses and loft buildings are the rule, buy into this richly ethnic area.

Starting Address:	57th Street and 8th Avenue
*Length of Tour:*	1 Hour, 45 Minutes
*Best Starting Time:*	11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., or 6:00 P.M.
*Subway:*	A, B, C, D, 1, or 9 to Colum-bus Circle
*Bus:*	10, 30, 57, 58, or 104
Bring Along:	Camera, money for fake watch, and New York Times theater listings

the tour

Columbus Circle, with its merging traffic from a myriad of directions, is two blocks north of our starting point at 57th Street and 8th Avenue. As you head south on 8th Avenue, to your back will be Gaetano Russo's monument to Chris-topher Columbus, erected in 1892 and marking the very center of the circle.

Our tour commences at the home of New York-born superstar Al Pacino-Michael Corleone to fans of the Godfather saga. This two-time Tony Award-winning actor resides in Central Park Place, an ultramodern high rise at 301 West 57th Street,¹ corner of 8th Ave-nue. An alumnus of Herbert Berghof's New York acting school, Al saved up money for tuition by work-

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ing at menial occupations (usher, porter, delivery boy). No doubt he also cut expenses by eating at his uncle's pizzeria on upper Broadway. Al is known to be a very private person, so much so that columnist Earl Wilson once labeled him "the male Greta Garbo."

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Disguised in glasses and wearing a fake mustache, Al Pacino enjoyed the experience of anonymously blending in at a concert in New York. When asked what his disguise was, he responded, half-smiling, that he was impersonating Dustin Hoffman.

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Another former movie usher residing in Central Park Place is Gene Hackman, respected among his peers as an actor's actor for his versatility and professionalism. Gene's superb talent earned him an Oscar for his performance as New York detective Popeye Doyle in the 1971 film The French Con-nection. The building is home as well to soap-opera star Eileen Fulton.

Across the busy thoroughfare, in the brown-bricked Shef-field, lives rock-and-roll star Steve Van Zandt. The wide drive-way in front accommodates the steady flow of limousines pulling up to this 322 West 57th Street address.²

Down the block is the Pare Vendome, a group of four separate buildings on both 56th and 57th streets. To find out why this com-plex is packed with ce-lebrities, take a peek at the lovely open garden at the rear of each building. This beauti-fully landscaped archi-tectural gem, with its white Roman columns and picturesque concrete fountain, is truly breathtaking.

The Pare Vendome's 340 West 57th Street³ address is

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home to glamorous blond actress Virginia Mayo, leading lady to comedians Danny Kaye and Bob Hope in films of the forties and fifties. Another resident is stage, television, and film actor Hal Holbrook, whose stardom began with his one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight!

Three fifty West 57th Street⁴ is the second 57th Street entrance of this fashionable establishment. One resident who must appreciate the building's beige canopies is actor Chris-topher Hewett, remembered best for his portrayal of the very tidy Mr. Belvedere on the popular television sitcom of the same name. Christopher spends his free time collecting Staf-fordshire china, but he has nearly exhausted his home's avail-able space with his extensive assortment.

Kooky actress Georgia Engel, whose big break came on "The Mary Tyier Moore Show," also lives at 350 West 57th Street. Another resident is the "Street Singer," Arthur Tracy, whose romantic hit song "Marta" sold over 18 million records.

Back across the street, at 347 West 57th Street,⁵ resides sportscaster Greg Gumbel. The Colonnade, as this attractive building is named, has a bowling alley-sized lobby filled with an eclectic collection of art.

At 353 West 57th Street,⁶ in the Henry Hudson Hotel, lives comedian Nipsey Russell, whose forte is clever rhymes. Since his appearance in the 1978 film The Wiz, Nipsey has kept a somewhat low profile.

Comedian and actor Will Jordan has his home in a white brick building at 435 West 57th Street,⁷ just past 9th Avenue. His impressions of celebrities such as Ed Sullivan and Hum-phrey Bogart remain the standard by which younger mimics are judged.

A pleasant morning or evening makes for excellent star-gazing, since celebrities enjoy a leisurely stroll to work. Many popular performers spend their day at the CBS Television Broadcast Center, a massive complex of buildings located at 518 and 524 West 57th Street and taking up much of the south side of the block between 10th and 11th avenues. Studio audiences line up early in the mornings to sit in on shows, including "The Joan Rivers Show" and "Geraldo." "60 Min-utes," "The CBS Evening News," and "As The World Turns" are also taped in the Broadcast Center's studios.

On the north side of this same block is Unitel Studios, located at 515 West 57th Street. "The Sally Jessy Raphael Show" is taped here at 11:00 a.m. Monday through Thurs-day before a live audience. Other shows are produced here as well, including "Sesame Street," the long-running children's favorite.

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Do you wonder where aspiring young high school students dreamed of stardom in the 1980 movie Fame? Would you like to know where Sandy Dennis performed her teaching magic in Up the Down Staircase (1967)? If so, head to 899 10th Avenue,⁸ just two blocks north of 57th Street, to see a mag-nificent Flemish Renaissance-styled structure used in both films. Currently the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the building until recently housed De Witt Clinton High School. Otherwise, our next stop is one block south and one east down 56th Street.

Director Melvin Van Peebles lives in the 353 West 56th Street⁹ building of the classic Parc Vendome. This pioneer of African-American cinema is finally receiving his well-deserved recognition.

At 333 West 56th Street,¹⁰ also a Pare Vendome address, resides acclaimed stage and film actress Irene Worth. Her neighbor in the building is another active stage actress, Dee Hoty. Tony Award-winning actress Carole Shelley, a Broad-way fixture since her 1965 appearance in The Odd Couple, also has her home in this elegant complex brimming with major stars.

Need time to rest those weary legs? Relax on a wooden bench in a cute vest-pocket park at 8th Avenue and 56th Street. If you must quench that thirst immediately, walk ten feet to the Symphony Cafe, 950 Eighth Avenue (212-397-9595) which sec-onds as a clubhouse for Broadway stars such as Dee Hoty and Keith Carradine. If it's late in the day, dress appropriately.

For those in need of nourishment, I have selected both a classic Italian restaurant and a less pricey yet attractive diner.

The Italian eatery happens to be Frank Sinatra's favorite. Frank and other celebrities enjoy the old-world service they receive from owners Joe and Rose Scognamillo at Patsy's, 236 West 56th Street (212-247-3491). These thoughtful restaur-ateurs even go so far as to receive mail for Rush Limbaugh, the controversial talk-show host.

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Italian cuisine expert Al Pocino may have started a trend when he pulled up to Patsy's in a chauffeur-driven Jeep. At enjoys dining in the establishment's secluded upper level.

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Around the comer and one block south, you find the Broad-way Diner, an inexpensive restaurant that serves up some very tasty food. This neon-lighted Deco-style structure, which sits at 1726 Broadway (212-765-0909), counts a host of models, casting agents, and production people as its regular customers.

The diner is directly across Broadway from the home of blond-haired, blue-eyed Jane Powell, who lives at 230 West 55th Street.¹¹ An engaging personality, as well as nimble feet and a pleasing coloratura soprano voice, helped this fine ac-tress-singer-dancer achieve movie stardom at an early age. She was born Suzanne Burce, but after appearing in the 1944 film Song of the Open Road, she decided to keep her character's name, Jane Powell.

When Shirley MacLaine, Robert Duvall, and George Abbott are in a cha-cha mood, they head straight to Roseland, 239 West 52nd Street, which is only three short blocks down Broadway and a few doors west on 52nd. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers referred to this legendary ballroom as "dance city." Look for the photos of Elizabeth Taylor, Ann Miller, and Jane Powell showcased under glass beneath this 1919 landmark's Las Vegas-style marquee.

Across the street at 240 West 52nd Street is a hangout for rock and rollers called the Lone Star Roadhouse. Major stars can often be found in the audience, listening to famous friends perform. Bob Dylan showed up recently to see buddy Al Cooper test new material. Cyndi Lauper got up from dinner to belt out a few tunes and Kathleen Turner sang a set or two with husband Jay Weiss's band, The Suits.

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Bad Boy" Johnny Depp punched his fist through a window and shattered glass in the face of a female patron at the Lone Star Roadhouse. The incident took place after a full day spent shooting a romantic comedy called The Arrowtooth Waltz on location in the bar. The young star, who also heard complaints about his nipping at the Jack Daniel's during filming, explained it as an accident.

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What do Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss, Gene Hackman, Rob Lowe, Jessica Lange, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Joan Collins, and Debbie Gibson have in common? Broadway. These singers and film stars are just a few of the many established performers who descend on the Great White Way to experience the excitement only the live stage can provide. With the hefty cost of theater production in the 1990s, "straight" plays (without music) don't get the press needed to survive unless their casts feature well-known names.

Where better to start our Broadway tour than in front of the Neil Simon Theater, recently re-named to honor the most com-mercially successful playwright in American theater history. Known as the Alvin when it was built in 1927, this 250 West 52nd Street¹² structure opened with the Gershwins' smash hit Funny Face, starring Fred Astaire.

As you head deeper into the Broadway district, I'm positive you will be amazed by the abundance of quality productions offered in the area's almost forty theaters. Head back east to Broadway and make a left turn, heading northward one block.

To cite just a few, the Ed Sullivan Theater, 1697 Broadway,¹³ was home to a number of famous CBS television variety shows, including those hosted by Jackie Gleason and Ed Sullivan. It was also the location of filming "Kate and Allie," the hit TV sitcom starring Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin. The theater is presently the showcase for CBS's David Letterman Show. Continue south on Broadway.

At 1681 Broadway,¹⁴ the Broadway Theater has always managed to attract the most popular of musicals. Barbra Streisand appeared there in Funny Girl. Yul Brynner starred in the revival of The King and I, and in 1987 Les Miserabies opened to rave reviews and a long run. Two blocks down, at 1634 Broadway,¹⁵ is the Winter Garden, which opened with Al Jolson in 1911 and more recently featured the seemingly end-less run of Cats. Sixteen thirty-three Broadway¹⁶ is where you'll find the Gershwin Theater. This spacious auditorium was built in 1972, but its short span has been graced by an abundance of major stars, including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Rudolf Nureyev, and Linda Ronstadt.

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Why pay full price for a Broadway show? At TKTS (47th Street arid Broadway), you can purchase a ticket at half of its face-value cost (plus a small service charge) for saine'day performances. Don't be surprised if you stand next to a cost-conscious celebrity while waiting on line to make your selection. Make a right on 46th Street to reach our next destination.

The Paramount Hotel, 235 West 46th Street, is the newly renovated theater-district habitat favored by young trendy stars when they visit the Big Apple. One evening, Harry Connick, Jr. opted to stay here after a performance at the nearby Lunt-Fontanne Theater (205 West 46th Street) rather than return to his Greenwich Village home. Cher took over the basement, which had been Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe Club during Prohibition, to launch her new perfume. It was rumored Ma-donna tried to purchase that same basement not long after. If you need to use a pay phone, head past the Armani-suited doormen into the chicly furnished lobby, where you'll use Mr. Bell's invention while you savor the smell of fresh roses. Flow-ers are placed daily in the toilet-roll holders located in the bathrooms only a few feet away.

When movie stars go club hopping, they're no longer con-tent to sit at the best table in the house; now, they want to own it. Matt Dillon is one of the latest to follow this trend. The young star's stylish watering hole-called The Whiskey- in the Paramount Hotel is a favorite night spot for the likes of Sean Young, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Spike Lee, and Julia Roberts.

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A drunk attempting to steal a circus stool, used as a foot-stool at the chic Whiskey Bar, was shocked when superhero Robocop sprang into action and apprehended the culprit. The silver screen came to life when Peter Weller decided to portray his hit film. character after spotting corruption in Gotham.

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Walk to 8th Avenue, make a left, then make another left on 44th Street to reach our next stop. While Sardi's, 234 West 44th Street,¹⁷ (212-221-8440) is not the meeting place it once was for theatrical stars, agents, and producers, you can get a feel for the restaurant's former glory by seeing the caricatures of Broadway actors that cover its walls. Ellen Barkin has a romantic rendezvous with a beautiful cosmetic-company president in Sardi's while play-ing a male turned female in the film Switch (1991).

Head south to 43rd and one long block west to the comer of 9th Avenue. On the southwest comer is the home of veteran actor Jack Warden in a luxury high rise just off the Broadway strip at 400 West 43rd Street.¹⁸ Walk west to the far comer of the same block and you arrive at a similar-looking complex, which is home to popular television, film, and stage actress Angela Lansbury. Her residence at 484 West 43rd Street¹⁹is also home to rising film actor Eric Douglas, youngest son of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas.

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Around the comer and several doors west, at 529 West 42nd Street,²⁰ in a renovated warehouse-type complex, lives singer-actress Maureen McGovern. Her Academy Award-winning pop sound helped her achieve a lifelong dream when in 1989 she debuted at Carnegie Hall.

Gotham's Madison Square Garden has recently emerged as prime stargazing territory. Bill Cosby, Anthony Quinn, Woody Alien, Kathleen Turner, and Rob Lowe trek to this sports palace to cheer on coach Pat Riley and his New York Knickerbocker basketball team. John McEnroe, Ahmad Ras-had, and Spike Lee each forked out $12,900 for a season's worth ofcourtside seats. Celebrities are also on hand at Ranger hockey games and other major sporting events, as well as the Bamum & Bailey Circus every spring. The precast concrete Garden complex is located between West 31st and West 33rd streets, from 7th to 8th avenues. Twenty minutes walking, five to ten minutes by bus, or a $3.50 cab ride will place you there. If you decide to walk, head east on 42nd Street to 8th Avenue, make a right, and nine short blocks later you will be at your destination.

Otherwise, our next stop is Chelsea, the neighborhood where America's movie industry began in 1912 at Zukor's Famous Players Studio, with stars including John Barrymore and Mary Pickford. This richly ethnic middle-class area is home to New York Actors Studio-trained Rip Torn. Rip's residence at 435 West 22nd Street²¹ might take close to half an hour on foot, but a bus or taxi would get you there in minutes. Straight down 10th Avenue and a left turn on 22nd Street is the most direct route from 42nd Street. Take 8th Avenue south to 22nd Street, then walk one and a half blocks west if you're coming from Madison Square Garden.

Up until his death in September of 1992, Anthony Perkins resided around the comer, at 467 West 21st Street.²² The actor's town house is deceptively plain-looking, considering the neurotic and sometimes terrifying character portrayals that were his specialty in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).

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CENTRAL PARK SOUTH

STARS IN THE AREA

Warren Beatty Candice Bergen Christie Brinkley Larry Hagman La Toya Jackson Billy Joel Luciano Pavarotti Lynn Redgrave Telly Savalas Raquel Welch

NUMBER

ADDRESS

NAME

5th Avenue and 59th Street

Home Alone 2

The Way We Were

Plaza Suite

Arthur

Crocodile Dundee

North by Northwest

The Great Gatsby

Network

The Cotton Club

The Pickle

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Leona Helmsley

Harry Helmsley

106 Central Park South

La Toya Jackson

0. J. Simpson

Larry Hagman

Morton Downey, Jr.

112 Central Park South

Warren Beatty

Annette Bening

128 Central Park South

Billy Joel

Christie Brinkley

150 Central Park South

Luciano Pavarotti

Placido Domingo

Milos Forman

Ingrid Bergman (deceased)

Frank Sinatra

Ava Gardner (deceased)

160 Central Park South

Telly Savalas

George Bums

Bing Crosby (deceased)

Betty Grable (deceased)

Lily Pons (deceased)

Rudy Vallee (deceased)

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8	200 Central Park South	Raquel Welch
		Melba Moore
		Dino De Laurentiis
		Doris Roberts
9	210 Central Park South	Mary Higgins Clark
		Keith Hernandez
10	220 Central Park South	Don Hewitt
11	222 Central Park South	Candice Bergen
		Louis Malle
12	240 Central Park South	Bill Boggs
		Sylvia Miles
		Lou Jacobi
13	200 West 58th Street	Michael Moriarty
		Buster Poindexter
14	180 West 58th Street	Rita Gam
		Natasha Richardson
15	42 West 58th Street	Hume Cronyn
		Jessica Tandy
		Carol Bumett
16	754 5th Avenue	*Arthur*
		*Just Tell Me What You*
		Want
17	60 West 57th Street	Jerzy Kosinski (deceased)
18	100 West 57th Street	Alexandra Danilova
		John Gabriel
19	111 West 57th Street	Joan Sutherland
20	130 West 57th Street	John Oates
21	146 West 57th Street	Martin Scorsese
22	150 West 57th Street	*Tootsie*
		*Manhattan*
		*The Turning Point*
23	152-160 West 57th Street	Marion Brando
		Leonard Bernstein (deceased)
		John Barrymore (deceased)
		Isadora Duncan (deceased)
24	205 West 57th Street	Lynn Redgrave
		Jeffrey Lyons
		Fran Liebowitz
		Andre Watts
		Gig Young (deceased)
25	853 7th Avenue	John Heard
		Mary Travers
26	101 West 55th Street	Tony Bennett

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27 28	77 West 55th Street 24 West 55th Street	Henny Youngman Hal David
29	1260 Avenue of the Americas	*Annie Hall*
30	350 5th Avenue	*Radio Days The Godfather Love Affair King Kong On the Town*
		*An Affair to* Remember**

The perfect time for stargazers to spot their favorite celebrities is during lunch or dinner at one of Manhattan's glamorous or trendy restaurants. This area contains an amazing mix of hot new eateries as well as older, more established gourmet dining spots.

Our tour begins at the Plaza Hotel, perennial host to a vast array of stars and a favorite setting for filmmakers, and cul-minates at the Empire State Building, scene of the city's most memorable depiction on film. The residence buildings occu-pied by celebrities tend to cluster within a five-block square south of Central Park. This vast landscaped park offers a mo-ment of tranquility to New Yorkers eager to escape the agi-tation and turmoil of their glamorous but frenetic concrete jungle.

The area covered on this tour is bounded by Broadway on the west, 5th Avenue on the east, Central Park South on the north, and 34th Street on the south.

Starting Address:	5th Avenue at 59th Street
*Length of Tour:*	1 Hour, 45 Minutes
*Best* Starting Time:	10:00 A.M., 12:00 P.M., or 5:00
	P.M.
*Subway:*	N or R to 5th Avenue
*Bus:*	1, 5, or 30
*Bring Along:*	*Opera glasses, Donald Trump's book The Art of the Deal,* and, if you plan on stepping into the Carnegie Deli, Turns for the**
	tummy

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the tour

Fifth Avenue and 60th Street (N or R train) is a short block south from the start of our tour. Point your feet in the direction of the flags on the second-floor balcony of the Plaza Hotel that represent countries of important foreign guests and within min-utes you'll arrive at this world-famous complex.

The Plaza Hotel, 5ch Avenue and 59th Street,¹ has hosted more stars, and been featured in more of their movies, than any other building in Gotham. The hotel's popularity with the rich and famous is understandable considering its spectac-ular view of Central Park, its majestic exterior and elegant interior, and the constant traffic of horse-drawn carriages ca-tering to incurable romantics.

While putting final touches on this tour, I was astonished to pass a gigantic pickle at the entrance to the Plaza. No ordinary side dish, the monstrous half-sour was playing the title role in The Pickle, a film starring Danny Aiello and di-rected by Paul Mazursky. At the same time, the Plaza's park-side face was providing the cinematic escape route for New-York's own Macaulay Culkin as he fled bumbling burglars Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in Home Alone 2, sequel to the young star's original box-office smash.

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perhaps Mocautay Cutkin and superstar agent Sam Cohn can persuade the youth's parents that at $15 million per film the child superstar earns enough to have his own bedroom. Macauldy resides in a four-room apartment on the Upper East Side with mom, Pat, dad, Kit, and six (count 'em, six) siblings.

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The many memorable films in which the Plaza Hotel appears include North by Northwest (1959), The Way We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), Net-work (1976) Arthur (1981), The Cotton Club (1984), "Crocodile" Dundee (1986), and, of course, Plaza Suite (1971).

The Plaza, a creation of architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, who also designed the star-studded Dakota, is owned by Donald Trump, who has in-

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his favorite eatery, the San Domenico, 240 Central Park South. Luciano's colleague-and rival for the title of world's greatest tenor-Placido Domingo lives in the building, as well.

The musical theme of the Hampshire House is further ap-parent with the presence of another world-class artist, Acad-emy Award-winning movie director Milos Forman. Especially adept at bringing Broadway hits to the silver screen, his version of the sixties musical Hair (1979) was largely filmed in the oasis across the street-Central Park.

Ingrid Bergman, Frank Sinatra, and Ava Gardner had homes in the Hampshire House back in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Frank Sinatra's infamous romantic rendezvous with Ava Qardner is a Hampshire House legend. In 1950, "Old Blue Eyes" took a suite on the eighth floor and Ava took one down the hall. (In town to sing at the Copa, then New York's top night spot, Frank had left his wife, Nancy, back in California.) The stars' privacy was soon lost, however, as word of their love nest leaked out and the Hampshire House was invaded by nosy journalists looking to sniff out the story.

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The Essex House, next door at 160 Central Park South,⁷ has recently undergone a $75 million renovation to restore its original Art Deco splendor. Celebrities are once again looking to purchase homes in this prestigious hotel-condo complex. David Bowie, I'm told, may soon be the owner of an Essex House residence suite.

Presently, the best-known resident of the Essex House is TV detective and native New Yorker Telly Savalas. As you pass the building, see whether you can detect a bald, stocky man sucking on a lollipop.

Among the many alluring residents of the Essex House in the past have been Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, Betty Grable, and George Bums. But for sheer animal magnet-ism, none surpassed the jaguar owned by Lily Pons; The pa-

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trician pet pussy cat was given free reign to roam throughout the legendary soprano's luxury suite.

True to its name, Les Celebrites, (212-484-5113) the in-timate French restaurant located on the first floor of the Essex House, features artwork by celebrities. Artists whose paintings are displayed on its walls include Gene Hackman, Sally Struthers, James Dean, Phyllis Diller, and Sally Kirkland. If your home isn't complete without a painting of David Bowie by Claire Trevor, it's available for purchase-at a gourmet price.

Raquel Welch resides at 200 Central Park South,⁸ at the southwest corner of 7th Ave-nue, in an unusually shapely edifice. Art imitates life, and vice versa, as the extravagant curves of the building's facade re-mind one of the swooping lines that are the trademark of this ageless sex goddess.

Raquel's neighbor at 200 Central Park South is singer-ac-tress Melba Moore, who is Big Apple-born and raised. An-other building resident is Dino De Laurentiis, the larger-than-

life movie mogul. A familiar face you might also spot here is that of television actress Doris Roberts, whose work has earned her a pair of Emmys.

Next door, at 210 Central Park South⁹ resides one of America's best-selling suspense writers, Mary Higgins dark. If this superb storyteller needs ideas for a mystery novel in-volving diamonds-of the baseball variety, that is-she should contact first baseman Keith Hernandez, who also lives here. Continue west on Central Park South.

New York-born Don Hewitt, producer of "60 Minutes" for CBS, has his home at 220 Central Park South.¹⁰

The Gainsborough Studios at 222 Central Park South¹¹ is a building that was opened in 1907 to house up-and-coming artists. The structure's unique facade is mosaic and is topped by a bust of Thomas Gainsborough. No doubt the eighteenth-century English portraitist would have enjoyed rendering on canvas the classic beauty of Candice Bergen, otherwise known as Murphy Brown. She and her husband, film director Louis Malle, live here with their daughter, Chloe. Candace had all but given up on men when she found her Prince Charming.

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Candice Bergen played the role of Sydney Biddle Bar-rows in the 1987 television mofie Mayflower Madam. Sydney, whose ancestors were indeed among the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock, ran New York's classiest call-girl operation from her home at 304 West 74th Street (until 1984, when the law finally paid a call on her). So the home of this real-life madam is just blocks from that of the actress who played her in film. Only in Manhattan.

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When stars such as Roberta Flack, Cyndi Lauper, Mary Travers, and Norman Lear visit the dentist, they expect amenities like a television in every room. They get them at 230 Central Park South from Marc G. Lowenberg, D.D.S., P.C. Cosmetic dentist to the stars, Dr. Marc has a patient roster that includes many celebrities. The in-office entertainment can present un-usual risks, however, especially when tuned to MTV: Marc remembers the time Roberta Flack began "bopping" to her own video while in the chair.

Newsman Bill Boggs might have chosen 240 Central Park South¹² as his home after discovering that fellow journalist Lois Lane lived there in the movie Superman. More likely, he was drawn to the structure's super, and oh-so-sophisticated, architecture.

New York native Sylvia Miles, who studied acting at the Actors Studio, also calls 240 Central Park South home, as does veteran stage and film actor Lou Jacobi.

At the same address, you'll also find the San Domenico restaurant (212-265-5959). This colorful yet elegant Italian eatery is frequented by stars like Michael Douglas, Harry Belafonte, Candice Bergen, and Christopher Plummer. Lucky Christopher: While dining at the restaurant a few weeks back, he happened to bump into producer Douglas Cramer, who signed him on the spot to star in an upcoming flick.

Walk a few yards west to the edge of Columbus Circle. Within view is an odd-shaped white marble building housing the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The ground floor contains an information center that offers free handouts on cultural events, sites, and attractions. Continue around the comer, south to 58th Street, turn left, and head one block east to the comer of 7th Avenue.

At 200 West 58th Street,¹³ resides Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Michael Moriarty. A gifted jazz pianist

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Award-winning actor Michael Moriarty. A gifted jazz pianist as well, Michael gigged around town early in his career at a variety of night spots. In the same complex resides fellow actor and fellow music maker Buster Poindexter.

Across the street, the Alwyn Court, 180 West 58th Street,¹⁴ built in 1909 with the beautiful splendor of the French Renaissance, is one of the most appealing buildings in Man-hattan. The exterior detailing is terra-cotta woven like a tap-estry.

Actress Rita Gam grew up in Manhattan and presently resides in the Alwyn Court. Her neighbor there is movie star Natasha Richardson, owner of one of acting's most dazzling pedigrees: Her father was English stage director Tony Rich-ardson, and her mother, Vanessa, and maternal aunt, Lynn, are both performers sumamed Redgrave, as was her grandfather Michael.

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When Rita Gam decided that writing was more challenging than acting, she began submitting ideas to publishing houses, only to be rejected time and again. Finally, after confining herself to a rigorous writing schedule in her beautiful and spacious apartment, she wrote the book Actress to Actress. Rita achieves success a bit more easily now, as both actress and writer.

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Heading east on 58th Street, back

toward 5th Avenue, we pass the

popular Wyndham Hotel, 42 West

58th Street,¹⁵ home to husband-

and-wife acting greats Hume

Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. While Jessica's performance in the movie Driving Miss Daisy (1989) earned her an Oscar at the age of eighty, she and Hume are most beloved for their work on the Broadway stage. For the half century each has spent on the Great White Way, both have been honored with induction into the Theater Hall of Fame.

Actress-comedienne Carol Burnett, who for years was glad to have time together with millions of American TV viewers, also keeps a residence at the Wyndham. A half-block stroll

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choreographer Alexandra Danilova. Currently on the faculty of the School of American Ballet, Alexandra gives lecture tours around the world. Also at home here is talented actor John Gabriel. Continue west.

You don't have to be a movie star to dress like one. Today, it's chic for stars and jet-setters to buy and sell their fur coats at the Ritz Thrift Shop, 107 West 57th Street. Stop in for a glass of champagne and bargain for that touch of mink. Buyers and sellers here have included Joanne Woodward, Virginia Graham, Mrs. Johnny Cash, and Sally Jessy Raphael. Your cut-rate purchase might net you a profit sooner than you realize:

One shopper recently found money stuffed in her new coat's shoulder pad.

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What would you do if the name Jackie Kennedy was sewn on the inside of the autumn-haze mink you just bought? The customer who purchased the former First Lady's fur didn't hesitate:

"Take it out," she ordered the saleswoman. "I wear my own labels."

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Soprano Joan Sutherland found her way to Carnegie Hall by practice, practice, practice. But to get there on short notice the diva needed living quarters close by, so she moved into 111 West 57th Street.¹⁹ Joan's coloratura, which has thrilled opera fans around the world, is especially appreciated in this most musical of cities, where she has made countless appear-ances at both Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Keep your feet moving west.

When John Oates composed his hot-selling pop tune "Rich Girl," he must have been eyeing the chick crowd ambling past 130 West 57th Street,²⁰ where he has his opulent abode. John moved to New York in 1971 with partner Daryl Hall in search of a recording contract, and since then the rock duo Hall and Oates has had one hit after another.

What do Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sly Stallone have in common? A snazzy new hamburger joint called Planet Hol-lywood at 140 West 57th Street (212-333-7827). Celebrities attending the opening of this mecca of movie memorabilia included Kim Basinger and com-panion, Alec Baldwin, Michael J. Fox, Stevie Wonder, Glenn

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Close, and Don Johnson. The restaurant has a private screen-ing room, a favorite place for stars to munch popcorn as they pre-view their most recent film. Continue west toward 7th Avenue.

Director Martin Scorsese believes that the reality of his life, which includes being raised in a tenement in New York's Little Italy, entering and dropping out of seminary, studying and teaching film at New York University, and now living in an elegant residence at 146 West 57th Street,²¹ is inter-changeable with the reality of his films. If you consider his fleeing the mean streets of Little Italy by hailing a taxi driver and directing him to the center of New York, New York, this raging bull who created The Last Temptation of Christ certainly has a life that parallels his art.

If you hunger to see celebrities sipping borscht while they make deals (stopping only to air-kiss new arrivals-always on both cheeks), then the Russian Tea Room (212-265-0947) at 150 West 57th Street²² is a definite stop. Limousines begin pulling up around 1:00 p.m., dropping off superstars to make any stargazer salivate. Michael Douglas, Dustin Hoffman, Alan King, Woody Allen, Carol Channing, Paul Newman, and Candice Bergen are a few of the celebrity elite for whom the middle eight booths are reserved. By the way, don't be confused if you see tinsel and holly in July-the colorful Christmas decorations stay up year-round at this brownstone eatery, which was built in 1870.

The Russian Tea Room has been used as a backdrop in many films. Dustin Hoffman, in drag, shocked director Syd-ney Pollack by revealing his true identity while the two were lunching in a middle booth in Tootsie (1982). Woody Alien, a big fan of the blinis, brought his son to the Tea Room in Manhattan (1979). The restaurant was also featured in The Turning Point (1977), starring Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft, two of the establishment's most devoted regulars.

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Look, this is Paul Newman. You'd better come see my daughter,'' said this proud father when he manned the phone lines at the Russian Tea Room. Paul's daughter Melissa was booked for a performance in the restaurant on cabaret night.

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Carnegie Hall has been the stage for entertainment's elite since it was built in 1891 by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. For some stars, however, the structure has provided a home, as

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well. Above this Italian Renaissance-designed building at 152-160 West 57th Street²³ are residences that have housed Marion Brando, Leonard Bernstein, John Barrymore, and Isadora Duncan. Television specials are frequently set in Car-negie Hall's white auditorium to take advantage of its world-renowned acoustics. Two versions of the feature film Unfaith-fully Yours (1948 and 1984), about a symphony orchestra con-ductor who suspects his wife of infidelity, also centered on the concert hall. Our next stop is across the road on the northwest comer of 57th Street and 7th Avenue.

The Osborne, 205 West 57th Street,²⁴ has long been a popular residence for painters, musicians, actors, and other people involved in the arts. The building's solid, sound-resistant construction, proximity to Carnegie Hall, fifteen-foot ceilings, and ornately decorated lobby all add to its appeal.

Residing in the Renaissance palazzo-styled building is the very successful stage and screen actress Lynn Redgrave. An-other resident, in his very own "Lyon's den," is film critic Jeffrey Lyons, son of Leonard Lyons, for decades a top New York entertainment columnist. His neighbor in the building is sardonic author Fran Lebowitz, considered by the Washing-ton Post to be "the funniest woman in America." Rounding out the Osborne's current celebrity registry is Andre Watts, the famed American pianist.

The solidly constructed Osborne came apart in 1978 when the bodies of Oscar-winning actor Gig Young and his beautiful wife, Kim Schmidt, were discovered in his home in the build-ing. Perhaps the frustrations of his long Hollywood career had finally caught up with him when he shot himself and his wife of three weeks.

Now might be a perfect moment to freshen up, rest your weary legs, and fill your empty tummy. How about a hot, lean skyscraper of a corned beef sandwich at the best deli in town? The Carnegie Deli, 854 7th Avenue, (212-757-2245) is a hangout for comic greats that include Goldie Hawn, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, and Milton Berle. Henny Youngman has lunch there every day. An unusual feature of the deli, not common among Big Apple restaurants, is its insistence that stars stand in line like anyone else. The restaurant honors its most famous customers by naming sandwiches after them. (Ex-ample: "The Woody Allen, for the dedicated fresser only! Lotsa corned beef plus lotsa pastrami.") From 57th Street, the restaurant is a couple of blocks south, down 7th Avenue, just below 55th Street.

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Close by at 853 7th Avenue²⁵ is the home of actor John Heard. The building also houses Mary Travers, still active in the singing group Peter, Paul and Mary.

We now journey east on 55th Street one block to 101 West 55th Street,²⁶ where New York-born singer Tony Bennett resides. Tony studied at New York's High School of Industrial Art to be a commercial artist but switched to a singing career when he was discovered performing in local pasta joints. Con-tinue east.

"King of the One-liners" Henny Youngman, whose trade-marks are his violin and his line "Take my wife-Please," lives at 77 West 55th Street.²⁷ Only a few doors farther east, at 24 West 55th Street,²⁸ is world-renowned lyricist Hal David. We now head to 5th Avenue, turn right, and right again on 54th Street.

Scandal ensued at 13 West 54th Street after former Gov-ernor and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller died of a heart attack in his town house while "working" with his assistant, Megan Marshak. The story got juicy when the press discovered that Megan waited an hour before reporting the death. Head back to 5th Avenue and stroll south to 52nd Street, where we'll turn right.

Just off 5th Avenue at 21 West 52nd Street is the "21" Club (212-582-7200), a restaurant frequented by the most famous and powerful people in the world. You might want to stop for a drink at the bar, which overlooks an elegant dining area frequented by the likes of Lauren Bacall, Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor, and Frank Sinatra, plus a host of others. Years back, when Frank Sinatra and Lauren Bacall arrived for dinner on the same evening, the maitre d' was instructed to seat them "as far apart as geographically possible." It seems Frank had dropped her cold after the two had been talking marriage only a few days before. This onetime speakeasy has been immortalized in film. In the 1950 film Ail About Eve, Bette Davis lunches at "21," while more recently Michael Douglas talks business here with Charlie Sheen in Wall Street (1987). Continue west on 52nd Street to the comer, which is the Avenue of the Americas, turn left, and head south two blocks to our next location.

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If you spot several stoic-looking men wearing earphones and blocking your view of a row of cast-iron jockey statues in front of the "21" Club, it must be President's Night. One recent evening, a very sleepy Ronald Reagan and his very glamorous wife, Nancy, sat at a table near the bar. The couple and the chef, also a former actor, discussed their most recent careers. I watched the conversation from the bar, glued to my seat by the icy stares of three Secret Service agents- I was held captive by my fear of being shot while grabbing for my wallet to pay the bill.

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Twelve sixty Avenue of the Americas²⁹ is Radio City Music Hall, home to the Rockettes. This cavernous theater, with its extravagant Art Deco lobby, was built in the early years of the Depres-sion and has staged some of the most spectacular perfor-mances in show-business his-tory. Films featuring Radio City have included Woody Alien's Annie Hall (1977) and Radio Days (1987), plus Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972). If you have the time, Radio City offers an hour-long backstage tour. Check at the box office or call 212-632-4041.

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If you passed Radio City Music Hail in the early part of 1992 and saw a number of sheep being herded by two dogs into a waiting taxi, cancel that extra visit to your therapist. The stunt was performed for the taping of "David Letter-man's Tenth Anniversary Special."

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Across the street at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (southeast comer of 50th Street and the Avenue of the Americas) are the NBC Studios, where the television show "Saturday Night Live" is

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produced before a live studio audience. The scenic Rainbow Room restaurant, located on the sixty-fifth floor, is the romantic setting in the film The Prince of Tides (1991) for a steamy encounter between psychiatrist Barbra Streisand and her semipatient Nick Nolte. NBC invites you to take a tour of television studios for a small fee (212-664-7174).

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A surprised Eddie Murphy stepped out of his limousine into a pile of horse manure. The comedian decided to slip out of his $500 loafers and walk shoeless up to his job at NBC Studios as star of "Saturday Night Live."

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Heading south down the Avenue of the Americas, we pass the Diamond District (West 47th Street, between 5th Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas), where more than $400 million worth of diamonds are traded daily. The danger and excitement of the street led director Sidney Lumet to use it in filming Stranger Among Us (1992), starring Melanie Griffith as an undercover cop. Continue walking to 44th Street, turn left, and head to the middle of the block.

The Hotel Algonquin, 59 West 44th Street, is the first of three hotels we shall visit that have catered to famous writers, actors, and lyricists. The Algonquin, with its elegantly paneled lobby, was the home of the celebrated Round Table, a group that in the 1920s convened daily for lunch at a round table in the main dining room. Writer Dorothy Parker, playwright George S. Kaufman, and actress Tallulah Bankhead were members of this formidable gathering of young, bright, and talented people. Film star Douglas Fairbanks, st., had a res-idence in the hotel between 1908 and 1915, as did novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald throughout the 1930s. Two films featuring the Hotel Algonquin include director Otto Preminger's sus-pense thriller Laura (1944) and Rich and Famous, a 1981 drama starring Jacqueline Bissett and Candice Bergen.

James Dean entertained guests in the lobby of the Hotel Algonquin, but as a struggling young actor in the early 1950s he could afford to live only in the less expensive Iroquois Hotel, next door at 49 West 44th Street. James shared room 802 with friend and fellow actor William Bast.

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Across the road, the Royalton Hotel, 44 West 44th Street, has undergone a multimillion-dollar refurbishment and is re-capturing its former glory as a celebrity meeting place. The block-long futuristically designed lobby attracts stars including Madonna, Sean Penn, Billy Baldwin, and Kathleen Turner. The lobby features the critically acclaimed 44 Restaurant, (212-944-8844) a round bar inspired by Ernest Hemingway's favorite bar at the Ritz in Paris, and space age-style rest rooms a local paper recently labeled Manhattan's "most appealing."

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Arow of rock groupies was patiently waiting by the elevator hoping to be picked over by members of Guns N' Roses, the rock group occupying suites in the Royalton Hotel. Meanwhile, group member Slash was busy throwing up on the Hemingway-inspired bar. Talk about having a fun evening!

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The final stop on this tour is a skyscraper that has been the symbol of New York City since its completion in 1931, the Empire State Building. To reach the 102-story structure from the Royalton Hotel, walk east along 54th Street, turn right at 5th Avenue, and head south-ten minutes on foot or five minutes by bus, or take a two-dollar taxi ride. Your destination is 350 5th Avenue,³⁰ at the southwest comer of 34th Street. Careful crossing the road, since I'm reminded of Irene Dunne being hit by a bus while running across 34th Street to meet Charles Boyer in the film Love Affair (1939).

This sleek grayish-toned New York landmark, which for more than forty years was the world's tallest building, entered into legend with the 1933 release of the film King Kong. A lovestruck gorilla perches himself atop the Empire State Build-ing and proceeds to swat attacking planes. Fiction became fact in 1945 when a plane crashed into the skyscraper, killing fourteen people. Films On the Town (1949) and An Affair to Remember (1957) also featured the Empire State Building. For a spectacular view of the city and the rivers and bridges, take the elevator to the two observation decks, open between 9:30 a.m. and midnight.

As you leave the Empire State Building, you'll find access to buses and subways that will whisk you throughout the Big Apple. Crosstown buses are on 34th Street, and if you head one block west to the Avenue of the Americas, the B, Q, N, or R trains are at your disposal.

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Johnny Carson Richard Chamberlain Phil Collins Katharine Hepburn Sophia Loren Kelly McGillis Julia Roberts Frank Sinatra Stevie Wonder Pia Zadora

NUMBER	ADDRESS	NAME
1	721 5th Avenue	Donald Trump
		Sophia Loren
		Pia Zadora
		Johnny Carson
		Dick dark
		Steven Spielberg
		Paul Anka
		Martina Navratilova
		Fay Wray
		Andrew Lloyd Weber
		Susan Saint James
		I'll Take Manhattan
2	2 East 55th Street	Marlene Dietrich (deceased)
		Rex Harrison (deceased)
		Ernest Hemingway (deceased)
		Hannah and Her Sisters
		Radio Days
		Taxi Driver
3	641 5th Avenue	Adnan Khashoggi
		Laura Branigan
		Patti Austin
4	100 East 50th Street	Frank Sinatra
		Spencer Tracy (deceased)
		Gregory Peck
		Cole Porter (deceased)
		Marilyn Monroe (deceased)
5	135 East 55th Street	Billy Idol
6	146 East 56th Street	David Rockefeller
7	465 Park Avenue	Norman Lear
		Greta Garbo (deceased)
		Arlene Francis
		William Randolph Hearst
		(deceased)
		Marion Davies (deceased)
		Neil Simon

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8	470 Park Avenue	Darren McGavin
9	117 East 57th Street	Eric Clapton
9	117 East 57th Street	Buck Henry
10	110 East 5 7th Street	Phil Collins
11	322 East 57th Street	Kathie Lee Gifford
11	322 East 57th Street	Frank Gifford
12	430 East 57th Street	Lillian Gish (deceased)
13	444 East 57th Street	Bill Blass
13	444 East 57th Street	Marilyn Monroe (deceased)
14	447 East 57th Street	Bobby Short
15	25 Sutton Place	Charlotte Ford
16	36 Sutton Place	How to Marry a Millionaire
17	50 Sutton Place	Maureen O'Hara
18	404 East 55th Street	Noel Coward (deceased)
19	405 East 54th Street	Van Johnson
20	450 East 52nd Street	Greta Garbo (deceased)
20	450 East 52nd Street	Rex Harrison (deceased)
21	435 East 52nd Street	Henry Kissinger
22	434 East 52nd Street	Humphrey Bogart (deceased)
23	400 East 52nd Street	Shirley MacLaine
24	433 East 51st Street	Richard Chamberlain
25	300 East 51st Street	Joe Namath
26	342 East 49th Street	Michael Cimino
27	870 United Nations Plaza	Dina Merrill
		Truman Capote (deceased)
28	244 East 49th Street	Katharine Hepburn
29	246 East 49th Street	Stephen Sondheim
30	228 East 48th Street	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
31	240 East 47th Street	Rita Moreno
32	220 East 42nd Street	Superman
33	Grand Central Terminal (42nd Street and Lexington Avenue)	The Prince of Tides
		North by Northwest
		The Cotton Club
34	20 East 35th Street	Vivian Blaine
35	30 Park Avenue	Jackie Mason
36	7 Gramercy Park West	Julia Roberts
37	305 Second Avenue	Judd Nelson
		David Lee Roth
		Wesley Snipes
38	325 East 18th Street	Stevie Wonder
39	327 East 18th Street	Wynton Marsalis
40	One Irving Place	Kelly McGillis
41	31 Union Square West	Elizabeth Ashley

Legendary actress Katharine Hepbum's upper-class Connect-icut background, well-bred manners, and desire to maintain a low-key lifesryle are indicative of the many celebrities hav-

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ing homes in this area. Greta Garbo created curiosity among fans and journalists with her elusiveness. Ritzy Midtown East attracts celebrities with the cash resources necessary to lead a proper existence in one of the most expensive areas of Man-hattan. Since prominent socialites exercise a strong hold on may of the luxurious complexes, proper connections can be essential to becoming part of this well-established community.

The convenience and exclusivity of the area have made it a perfect home for many millionaires and even a few billion-aires. Banker David Rockefeller resides here. So does Adnan Khashoggi, who is considered to be one of the richest men in the world.

"Hairdressers to the Stars" must believe that healthy com-petition leads to healthy hair and healthy profits, since the majority of these posh shops are located in Midtown East. As Kenneth, owner of Kenneth Beauty Salon in the elegant Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, will attest, the trend is to locate in one of the neighborhood's chic department stores or classy hotels. You will also notice that many of New York's most expensive restaurants are sprinkled throughout the area. I guess the think-ing is, Where better to show off the new do than at an intimate eating establishment visited with one's agent, producer, or casting director?

Our tour will commence at the star-studded Trump Tower, 721 5th Avenue, and will culminate at the home of actress Elizabeth Ashley, who resides at 31 Union Square West. The area to be covered is bounded by 5th Avenue on the west, the East River on the east, 14th on the south, and 58th Street on the north.

Starting Address:	Comer of 57th Street and 5th Avenue
Length of Tour:	2 Hours, 45 Minutes
Best Starting Time:	11:00 A.M. or 2:00 P.M.
Subway:	E, F, N, or R to 5th Avenue
Bus:	1,57,or 58
Bring Along:	A few credit cards (one might not be enough) and a camera- and dress fashionably so you blend in

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the tour

Trump Tower, 721 5th Avenue,¹ with its waterfall and its six-story pink marble atrium, is jam-packed with stars seeking a sleek, modern-looking home. A residence here can garner a celebrity much publicity, for the glitzy glass tower is one of New York's leading tourist attractions. To reach Trump Tower, head from your bus or subway stop to the fashionable and exclusive corner of 5th Avenue and 57th Street. If coming from 5th Avenue and 60th Street (N or R train), head sough on 5th Avenue three blocks. The E or F train will take you to 5th and 53rd, from which you will walk five blocks north on 5th Avenue.

The top three floors of this elegant monument are home to the tower's namesake, Donald Trump, famed deal-maker and star of his own never-ending one-man show. The Donald's residence, with elegant fur-nishings, including twenty-seven hand-crafted marble col-umns, is definitely fit for a king.

Judith Krantz's television miniseries I'll Take Manhattan, based on her book of that name, was filmed at Trump Tower. Donald appeared in the film, cast as his favorite person:

himself. He returns to the silver screen in the same role when Macaulay Culkin bumps into him at the Plaza Hotel in Home Alone 2 (1992). Considering the precarious state of his once-mighty finances, Donald may soon be dependent on his movie earnings to keep his yacht stocked with caviar.

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Donald Trump may soon be replaced on the dating scene by his ten-year-old daughter, Ivanka. The stunning child has been spotted window-shopping in the vicinity of Trump Tower with Home Alone star Macawlay Culkin.

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Sensuously beautiful actress Sophia Loren, who resides at Trump Tower, has a tough time blending into the constant rush of humanity that encircles the building. The usual sun-

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glasses and kerchief do little to con-ceal her seductive facial features and voluptuous figure from srargazers. The sexy Pia Zadora also lives at 721 5th Avenue, but how long that will last, I have no idea. She complains of landlord Donald Trump's arrogance and he jokes about her lack of talent.

The original home of NBC's "Tonight Show" in Rockefeller Plaza is only minutes from Johnny Carson's home in Trump Tower. Perhaps Johnny will spend more

time in the Big Apple now that he's left the show he hosted for thirty years. He'll likely continue to be as active as his Trump Tower neighbor, the timeless Dick Clark, whose many years hosting TV's "American Bandstand" have been followed by his produc-tion of many television specials.

Another Trump Tower res-ident is the influential film di-rector Steven Spielberg, called the "Magician of the Movies" by Time magazine in its 1985 cover story on him. Singer-composer Paul Anka lives here, as does eight-time Wimble- Johnny Carson don champion Martina Navratilova, the top money earner in tennis history, male or female.

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If an automobile pulls up to Trump Tower with xczech on the license plate, say hello to Martina Navratilova. This tennis great still remembers her Czechoslovakian birthplace, even though she's now an American citizen.

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Fay Wray will always be remembered as the frightened girl clutched tenderly by an infatuated giant-sized gorilla as he climbed the Empire State Building in the movie King Kong

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(1933). Fay's home in Trump Tower is within sight of the 102-story landmark that marks the height of her career.

Trump Tower is also home to Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of a slew of Broadway hits. His neighbor at this fashionable address is actress Susan Saint James, costar of TV's "Kate and Allie."

When Bemadette Peters, Lily Tomlin, Tina Sinatra, and Margaux Hemingway are spotted in Trump Tower, they're probably heading to Pierre Michel Coiffeur. Pierre Michel is the hairstylist to many well-known celebrities.

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The former queen of Trump Tower, Donald's ex-wife, Ivana, will spare no expense in nailing her next husband. The blond socialite spends close to $4,000 yearly on manicuring her inch long fingernails. Whatever happened to the five-dollar manicure?

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Donald Trump chose to build his star-studded Trump Tower next door to where Audrey Hepburn had her ten-dollar shopping spree in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). Tiffany & Co., 727 5th Ave-nue, at the comer of 57th Street, attracts celebrities in search of that perfect melon-sized diamond. Remember, if you have to ask the price, you're in the wrong place. Some of the rich and famous, including Mr. Trump, prefer buying their ladies gems in the more intimate and personal setting Harry Winston, one block south at 718 5th Avenue, offers.

Celebrities without permanent New York homes enjoy stay-ing at the newly renovated St. Regis Hotel, 2 East 55th Street.² The hotel is a two-block walk from Trump Tower, down 5th Avenue to 55th Street. Marlene Dietrich, Rex Harrison, and Ernest Hemingway all resided on a long-term basis in this stately hotel, built in 1904 by Colonel John Jacob Astor. Cabbie Robert De Niro picked up an apologetic Cybill Shep-herd at the St. Regis Hotel in the film Taxi Driver (1976). Woody Alien used the interior of the hotel extensively in

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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Radio Days (1987). Con-tinue south on 5th Avenue.

A number of restaurants along 5th Avenue are ideal for star-gazing. Bice, 7 East 54th Street (212-688-1999), is excellent for spotting magazine editors and fashion designers, as well as ac-tors like Dustin Hoffman and Michael Caine. Lunch is the ideal time for celebrity watch-ing and reservations are a must at this airy Italian eatery.

During lunchtime at La Grenouille, 3 East 52nd Street (212-752-1495), the front ta-bles are reserved for the likes of

Henry Kissinger, Oscar de la Renta, Liz Smith, and Ivana Trump. This charming restaurant is lavishly designed, with prices appropriately extravagant. Walk east on 52nd Street, crossing Park Avenue, to arrive at our next location.

One of Manhattan's two most celebrity-studded spots for lunch is The Four Seasons, 99 East 52nd Street (212-754-9494). (The Russian Tea Room is the other.) The Grill Room at The Four Seasons is territory set aside for the rich and famous, such as Eiton John, Bill Blass, and Barry Diller. Food in this thirty-year-old restaurant is always delicious, the service perfect, and the tab steep. Double back on 52nd Street a couple of blocks to our next adventure, on the southeast comer of 5th Avenue, at the former Morton F. Plant Mansion, now an exquisite jewelry store.

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After lunching, many stars, including Elizabeth Taylor, Eiton John, and Eddie Murphy, stop in at Carrier at 653 5th Avenue for desert. Even on a slow day for celebrity watching, wandering through this celebrated jewelry store is a treat.

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Eddie Murphy must have thought there was a "blue light special'' on when he and five body guards grabbed twos and threes of each item at Cartier. This last-minute Christmas shopping spree probably used up his salary from the movie-Boomerang (1992)- he'd been filming all around town.

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Continue south on 5th Avenue to 51st Street and turn left. Just off the corner, on the north side of the road, is the entrance to our next stop. The mystique of Olympic Tower, 641 5th Avenue,³ has long attracted many celebrities. Its aura orig-inated with its initial owner, shipping king Aristotle Onassis, who was married to Jackie Kennedy Onassis when the black boxlike glass structure was unveiled in 1974. One of the richest men in the world, billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, has a home in the Olympic Tower. The rooms in Adnan's residence are so large that even Donald Trump was impressed, calling the living room the largest he'd "ever witnessed."

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Most American men dream of being a sports hero, having a billion dollars, and being married to more than one woman at the same time. Adrian Khashoggi has two out of three. The Saudi billionaire enjoys the companionship of two radiant wives: Shahpari, an Iranian, and Lamia, a native of Italy.

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The amenities the Olympic Tower offers include a wine cellar, a health club, and a stock-quotation board. Celebrities such as pop vocalist Laura Branigan enjoy residing in a building so comfortably appointed. Soul singer Patti Austin, whose stage debut was at the ripe young age of three at New York's Apollo Theater, has her fashionable home in the Olympic Tower. Also in the building resides Emmy Award-winning newscaster Tom Jarriel. Next stop on the tour is New York's grandest hotel, occupied by the city's grand master and singer of the immortal song "New York, New York." You arrive there by

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heading one block south on 5th Avenue to 50th Street, turning left, and walking two blocks east to the southeast corner of Park Avenue and 50th Street.

Frank Sinatra must have seen how exuberant Ginger Rog-ers appeared in the movie Weekend at the Waldorf (1945). Maybe the film led the "Chairman of the Board" to acquire a residence suite in the hotel as his Big Apple center of oper-ations. The preeminent star has his home at 100 East 50th Street⁴ in the grandly decorated, discreetly located residence tower of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

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When Frank Sinatra

says he's throwing a party, expect two. After his star-studded bash for mayoral candidate Andrew Stein, Frank and his wife, Barbara, in-vited Liza Minnelli and Shirley MocLaine, among others, back to his luxurious Waldorf-Astoria res-idence to continue the festivities.

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Former residents of the tower section in this world-famous hotel have included acting greats Spencer Tracy, Cole Porter, Gregory Peck and movie goddess Man-lyn Monroe. Hidden away from the hotel's main entrance, the tower has its own lobby and concierge service. Long-term leases can be negotiated, starting from

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the nightly rate of a bit less than $2,000 per suite.

The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and its Art Deco lobby have been featured in numerous films. Woody Allen has taken ad-vantage of the hotel's glamorous facade in a few of his films. The hotel also appeared in The Out-of-Towners (1970) with Jack Lemmon and My Favorite Year (1982), starring Peter O'Toole.

The original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which this one re-placed in 1931, was located where the Empire State Building now stands. The first structure was the Hotel Waldorf, built by William Waldorf Astor in 1893 next door to the home of his socialite aunt Mrs. William Astor as a vindictive practical joke. The aunt got her revenge, however: She soon relocated and replaced her home with the Astoria Hotel. Eventually, the two hotels combined to form the first Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, predecessor to the current structure at Park Avenue near 50th Street.

The Waldorf-Astoria now hosts Kenneth Beauty Salon, whose regulars include Joan Rivers, Lauren Bacall, Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver, and Angie Dickinson. They love being pampered by Kenneth, who first achieved fame with client Jacqueline Kennedy's bouffant hairdo in the 1960s. Continue east on 50th half a block past Lexington Avenue.

Almost any night is a star-gazer's delight at New York's hottest supperclub, Tatou (212-753-1144), down the block at 151 East 50th Street. Prince, Diana Ross, Isabella Rossellini, Sophia Loren, Eddie Murphy, and Richard Gere with his wife, Cindy Crawford, among others, have

checked out the scene. If you enjoy dancing and dining in a setting modeled after an old Southern opera house, Tatou is for you. We now turn around and walk west on 50th Street to Lexington Avenue, turn right, head five blocks north, and walk east on 55th Street.

Between 3rd and Lexington avenues, at 135 East 55th Street,⁵ is the home of a sensual pop icon, guitarist Billy Idol. This young punk rocker is only one of a growing colony of rock stars taking advantage of New York's inspirational energies. To reach our next stop, head east a short distance on 55th Street.

Woody Allen plays his clarinet on Monday nights at Mi-chael's Pub, 211 East 55th Street (212-758-2272). Woody has

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been appearing at this cozy club for over twenty years.

Go west on 55th Street to 3rd Avenue, turn right, and head north one block to 56th Street. There we turn left and walk a block to our next location. One forty-six East 56th Street⁶ is the home of wealthy banker David Rockefeller. David and the rest of the Rockefeller family have directed much of their enormous fortune toward philanthropic causes. They built Rockefeller Center, although the complex has since passed out of the family's hands. Continue walking west on 56th Street to Park Avenue and turn right. Up one block is our next stop.

The Ritz Towers, 465 Park Avenue,⁷ at the comer of 57th Street, is an elegant building that is home to writer, director, and producer Norman Lear. Norman has a lavish residence in this forty-two-story apartment-hotel that was once home to fabled actress Greta Garbo. Also in the building resides Arlene Francis, the actress and popular radio and television panelist. William Randolph Hearst owned the Ritz Towers from 1928 till 1938 and maintained a magnificent home there with his mistress, actress Marion Davies. He sold the building when his publishing empire began to crumble.

Bronx-born playwright Neil Simon is another resident of this comfortable complex. The most commercially successful playwright in American history, Neil owes much of his in-spiration to his New York upbringing. He is one of the most succesful playwrights in the history of American theater.

Across the street, at 470 Park Avenue,⁸ resides versatile actor Darren McGavin. Darren, who was trained in the re-nowned Actors Studio, is as comfortable playing a shining hero as he is a ruthless villain. Next we head back to 57th Street, turn left, and stoll eastward.

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Rock-and-roll stars choose New York City as their home base so often because of its incomparable musical facilities, its trend-setting clubs, and its energetic creative atmosphere. Guitarist Eric Clapton has his home in the heart of Manhattan, at 117 East 57th Street.⁹ Also in the building resides noted actor and screenwriter Buck Henry, best known for his col-laboration on the script of the hit film The Graduate (1967).

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Buck Henry formed the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals and appeared on TV talk shows to promote the link between the "nudity of animals and the moral decline of man." This hu-morous hoax helped launch his career.

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Across the street, at 110 East 57th Street¹⁰ is the home of rock and roller Phil Collins. Phil enjoys acting and singing equally and tries to balance his two careers as best he can.

A few shrewd New York realtors not only sell the stars exclusive Manhattan homes;

they also socialize, vacation, and party with them. Realtor Linda Stein, of Douglas Elliman Realty, 575 Madison Av-enue, has a client list that includes Madonna, Eiton John, Billy Joel, La Toya Jack-son, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis. She recently brokered a deal that put Bruce and his wife, Demi Moore, in a $10 million triplex at the San Remo on Central Park West. Linda's abilities at pampering and shel-tering superstars have helped her become one of a select hand-ful of "Realtors to the Stars." Don't stray from the tour to call on her unless you're seeking your multimillion-dollar dream-house. Her office can be reached by heading west on 57th Street, making a left onto Madison Avenue, and walking south one and a half blocks. After exiting Linda's office, walk back up Madison Avenue, turn right, and head three blocks east to the comer of 3rd Avenue.

Now might be an excellent time to rest your weary legs.

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Check out the Healthy Deli (212-688-5757) at 954 Third Avenue, just north of 57th Street. You'll go crazy trying to select from the healthy and varied dishes artfully displayed in a glass cooler. Look for a star lunching on the delicious Caesar salad as he or she makes ready for another entertainment-industry conquest. After a healthy snack, get back on track by turning left onto 57th Street and strolling east a block and a half.

Kathie Lee Gifford and her husband, Frank, have their home at 322 East 57th Street,¹¹ Kathie is cohost of the highly rated daytime talk show, "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," which is taped in Manhattan. She and husband spend many hours involved in charitable organizations like the Special Olympics, a natural for Frank, star commentator on "Monday Night Football" and former halfback for the New York Giants. Despite their many activities, however, the couple always finds quality time to devote to America's most talked about baby, their son, Cody. Continue east on 57th Street, crossing 1st Avenue.

Four thirty East 57th Street¹² was the residence of the First Lady of the Silent Screen, Lillian Gish. Lillian continued to thrill audiences with powerful performances in recent films, which included Sweet Liberty (1986) with Alan Alda and The Whales of August (1987), which costarred Bette Davis right up until her death in February 1993 at the age of 99.

Next door, at 444 East 57th Street¹³ is the present home of designer Bill Blass and the former home of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn lived in this posh building on the thirteenth floor, first with her then husband, playwright Arthur Miller, and later alone, after the couple divorced, until her death in 1962.

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Marilyn Monroe's residence was almost like a mood ring in the way it reflected her highs and lows. When life was grand, much time was spent at home cooking and decorating, but in trou-bled times Marilyn s kitchen became bare and her furnishings filthy.

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Across the street, at 447 East 57th Street,¹⁴ is the home of celebrated pianist Bobby Short. Reserve a table to see him perform in the Carlyle Hotel's Cafe Carlyle, where he appears regularly. Walk east along 57th Street to Sutton Place South as you notice the magnificent view of the East River. Then turn right and head south a block.

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Garbo and Rex Harrison, both of whom passed away in 1990. Sir Rex, the "gentleman actor," thrilled Broadway and movie audiences with his Professor Henry Higgins character in My Fair Lady, but he preferred a private lifestyle offstage. "I vant to be alone" Garbo's credo, kept her secluded behind the leaded glass windows in her elegant seven-room residence. She did venture out-but usually covered by a trench coat, sun-glasses, and hat.

We now head to the home of one of America's most popular secretaries of state by changing direction and strolling a few doors west down 52nd Street. Foreign-affairs guru Henry Kissinger has become a serious Manhattan socialite, using his masterly diplomatic skills to balance his extraordinary volume of dinner invitations. Henry resides in the twenty-six-story River House at 435 East 52nd Street.²¹ This luxurious building is across from 434 East 52nd Street,²² once home to New York-born acting great Humphrey Bogart. Head back along 52nd Street to 1st Avenue.

Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine lives in a modem building at 400 East 52nd Street.²³ I hope that Shirley, who has maintained as many as eight dwellings at one time, didn't go "out on a limb" when adding this home to her holdings. Continue south on 1st Avenue one block and make a left, heading east on 51st Street.

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%fhirley MacLaine denies using her psychic skills when suggesting Carol Honey ' 'break a leg," a traditional theatric expres-sion. Still, Caroi did just that. Shirley replaced the injured star, getting not only a starring role in Broadway's Pajama Game but also the big break she needed to launch what became a phenomenally successful career.

Actor Richard Chamberlain,

champion of the miniseries, resides at 433 East 51st Street,²⁴ which faces Beekman Place. This tranquil, isolated area with its eclectic mix of buildings has always attracted prominent New Yorkers. Turn around and head west on 51st Street to the comer of 2nd Avenue. Pro football Hall of Famer and

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current TV commentator "Broadway" Joe Namath resides in a modem high rise at 300 East 51st Street.²⁵ If you head south two blocks on 2nd Avenue and turn left on 49th Street, you'll arrive at 342 East 49th Street²⁶ the home of screenwriter and director Michael Cimino.

Continue walking east on 49th Street a short distance to arrive at 870 United Nationas Plaza,²⁷ a glittering glass tower that is home to attractive blond actress Dina Merrill, who is the youngest daughter of Manhattan socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post. That impressive lineage helped groom her for the aristocratic characters she has convincingly portrayed. Built in 1966, the building has been home to a number of celebrities, including author Truman Capote, who lived in a spacious twenty-second-floor suite till his death in 1984. To reach the home of the next star on the tour, head back on 49th Street west one and a half blocks, until you cross 2nd Avenue.

Turtle Bay could easily be labeled "Celebrity Town Houses," in that it comprises two streets of charming pictur-esque buildings housing the most famous of stars. The town houses, each with its own private garden, encompass 48th and 49th streets between 2nd and 3rd avenues. Legend has it that the origin of the area's name lies in the many turtles that filled the shores of the bay, atop which is now the United Nations complex. Legendary actress Katharine Hepburn has lived at 244 East 49th Street²⁸ in the heart of Turtle Bay for over fifty years. Her four-story town house, for which she paid just $27,500 in 1937, is fronted by black wrought-iron gates that protect this very private four-time Academy Award-winning actress from autograph hounds.

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Katharine Hepbum glared into her fireplace and threat-ened one day to break through into Stephen Sondheim's attached dwelling and surprise him with a visit. A smiling mutual friend of both Katharine and myself offered to go home and change into something more appropriate for digging, but Katharine never fol-lowed through on her plan. Above her fireplace is a beautiful painting of Spence (Katharine's nickname for Spencer Tracy), the love of her life.

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Next door to Katharine resides New York-born Stephen Sondheim, who has composed scores and written lyrics for some of the most popular film and stage productions in history. Stephen

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waved good-bye to Barbra Streisand's son in the movie The Prince of Tides (1991). Among other films shot on location in Grand Central are Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984).

Next, walk west one block to Madison Avenue, turn left, head south seven blocks to 35th Street, and turn left again. A few doors east is 20 East 35th Street,³⁴ home of actress Vivian Blaine. At seventy-two, Vivian is stilt that warm and lively lady who thrilled Broadway audiences for years in Guys and Dolls. A short walk east on 35th Street brings us to the home of comic Jackie Mason, who resides at 30 Park Avenue.³⁵ Jackie's had a rocky career but is back on top since his own Broadway show. He relishes his newfound popularity and loves to schmooze with autograph seekers. South on Park Avenue fifteen short blocks to 7 Gramery Park West³⁶ brings us to the home of "Pretty Woman" Julia Roberts who, after stints in L.A. and Ireland, has chosen to reside in the Big Apple. Continue down to 18th Street and three lengthy blocks east.

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Recently Vivian Blaine performed at home in concert for her dog, Ade (named after Adelaide, Vivian's character in Guys and Dolls), in tandem with her pet groomer. The pooch joined in for the final chorus.

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Rutherford Place, 305 Second Avenue,³⁷ once the largest maternity hospital in the United States, has been renovated and converted into an extremely attractive residence complex. R. H. Robertson, one of the period's most prolific and distin-guished architects, designed this magnificent structure (built in 1902). High ceilings and multi-level dwelling units are features that have lured many celebrities to set up home here. Handsome young actor Judd Nelson has his residence in Ruth-erford Place, as does talented actor Wesley Snipes. Coincidentally, Judd and Wesley recently appeared together in the film New Jack City (1991). Rock star David Lee Roth also resides in the complex. Next, walk a few doors further east on 18th Street.

Stevie Wonder, who has astounded music lovers with a constant flow of Grammy Award-winning songs lives in a town house at 325 East 18th Street.³⁸ Fittingly, his neighbor, at 327 East 18th Street³⁹ is the young influential jaza trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who has won Grammys for both jazz and classical recordings.

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UPPER EAST SIDE

STARS IN THE AREA

Carol Channing Bill Cosby Myma Loy Elle MacPherson Liza Minnelli Dolly Parton Joan Rivers Diana Ross Brooke Shields Marlo Thomas

NUMBER	ADDRESS	NAME
1	781 5th Avenue	Diana Ross
		Francis Ford Coppola
		Danny Kaye (deceased)
2	767 5th Avenue	Big
3	785 5th Avenue	David Geffen
4	799 5th Avenue	Claire Trevor
5	502 Park Avenue	Richard Harris
		Robert Altman
		Ed Sullivan (deceased)
6	540 Park Avenue	Carol Channing
7	563 Park Avenue	John Irving
8	40 East 61st Street	Elle MacPherson
9	800 5th Avenue	Dolly Parton
9	800 5th Avenue	Pierre Cardin
10	1 East 62nd Street	Marion Brando
		Joan Rivers
11	130 East 63rd Street	Baron R. de Rothschild
12	139 East 63rd Street	Sally Jessy Raphael
13	820 5th Avenue	Ann Getty
14	828 5th Avenue	Shere Hite
		Donna Summer
15	32 East 64th Street	Kitty Carlisle Hart
16	129 East 64th Street	Otto Preminger
17	834 5th Avenue	John DeLorean
		Carolyn Roehm
		Henry Kravis
18	16 East 67th Street	Bob Guccione
19	30 East 68th Street	Mary Stewart
20	875 5th Avenue	Marlo Thomas
		Phil Donahue

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21	15 East 69th Street	Fanny Brice (deceased)
	15 East 69th Street	Ilie Nastase
22	52 East 69th Street	Jayne Mansfield (deceased)
23	150 East 69th Street	Liza Minnelli
		Doris Lilly (deceased)
		Howard Cosell
24	2 East 70th Street	Valentino
		Oscar de la Renta
		Joan Crawford (deceased)
25	3 East 71st Street	Bess Myerson
26	18 East 71st Street	Bill Cosby
27	114 East 72nd Street	Midnight Cowboy
27	114 East 72nd Street
28	150 East 72nd Street	Arlene Dahl
29	160 East 72nd Street	Joan Fontaine
30	171 East 71st Street	Breakfast at Tiffany's
31	200 East 71st Street	Louise Lasser
32	300 East 71st Street	Lana Cantrell
33	211 East 70th Street	Kaye Ballard
		Virginia Graham
		Sidney Pokier
34	215 East 68th Street	Arthur Miller
34	215 East 68th Street	Sammy Cahn (deceased)
35	230 East 68th Street	Morley Safer
36	200 East 66ch Street	Imogene Coca
		Benny Goodman (deceased)
		Grace Kelly (deceased)
37	212 East 63rd Street	Francesco Scavullo
38	165 East 62nd Street	Brooke Shields
39	200 East 62nd	Peggy Cass
	Street
40	201 East 62nd Street	Rona Jaffe
41	229 East 62nd Street	David Brenner
42	232 East 62nd Street	Tom Wolfe
43	425 East 63rd Street	Myma Loy
44	425 East 58th Street	Ginger Rogers

The Upper East Side was designed to be the residential com-munity of the rich and famous. Architects conceived and de-velopers built lavish brick and limestone high rises all along 5th and Park avenues, as well as elegant town houses on the side streets. To feed the shopping fantasies of the residents,

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they added Madison Avenue, which was to be filled with discreet boutiques.

On this tour, we will pass the homes of some of the weal-thiest celebrities in the world. Included are movie stars, rock-and-roll greats, award-winning directors, Manhattan social-ites, acclaimed writers, and legendary clothing designers. As we crisscross the numbered streets, a visit to one of the many shops and restaurants that punctuate ritzy Madison Avenue might be a treat. While you gaze at the expensive window displays, remember that these shops cater to neighborhood residents-a situation that makes Madison fertile ground for stargazing.

Our starting point will be the home of singing sensation Diana Ross, who resides at 781 5th Avenue in the Sherry -Netherland Hotel. The tour will culminate at 425 East 58th Street, which is the residence of classic movie star Ginger Rogers. The area we will be covering is bounded by East 58th Street on the south, East 62nd Street on the north, 5th Av-enue on the west, and the East River on the east.

Starting Address:	5th Avenue at 59th Street
Length of Tour:	2 hours, 25 minutes
Best Starting Time:	11:00A.M.
Subway:	N or R to Fifth Avenue
Bus:	1,30, Q32,57, or 58
Bring Along:	Credit Cards, sports jacket, camera, and a blanket in case you might enjoy relaxing in Central Park

the tour

Only a few doors south of the N and R subway exit at the corner of 5th Avenue and 60th Street is that first stop on the tour. To reach the same location by the 57th Street bus, disembark at 5th Avenue and walk north two blocks to 59th Street.

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plex. Brooklyn-born comedian and film actor Danny Kaye was a fellow resident until his death. The hotel's imaginative architectural style, exquisite marble lobby, and romantic set-ting make it a much sought-after celebrity domicile.

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Looking for a bargain' Check out Francis Ford Coppola's

Sherry-Netherland residence and make an offer he can't refuse on the asking price: $3 million. Danny Kaye's daughter Dena has put her late father's Sherry-Netherland two-bedroom home on the real estate market for $2.5 million. Maybe a two-for-one price is negotiable.

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Next door, at the southeast comer of 59th Street on the ground floor of the fifty-story glass and marble General Mo-tors Building, is the most ex-citing toy store in the world, F. A. O. Schwartz. Tom Hanks danced on a giant keyboard in the film Big, shot in 1988 in this gigantic playland at 767 5th Avenue.² Continue back up 5th Avenue, passing the many artists and musicians who line the wayside along the west side of the street.

At 785 5th Avenue³ is the home of record mogul David Geffen. An avid New Yorker, David can be seen at many of the trendier restaurants in town. One afternoon while lunch-ing at the Russian Tea Room, I was told that Mr. Geffen, dressed in jeans and running shoes, was turned away by a newly hired doorman. The entertainment power broker soon received a note of apology from restaurant management. Continue north on 5th Avenue.

The classiest hotel in Gotham is most definitely the Pierre, 799 5th Avenue.⁴ With its elegantly adorned rooms and a nearly two-to-one staff-to-guest ratio, the hotel has become a favorite of celebrities like Charles Bronson, Jimmy Stewart, Tom Jones, and Audrey Hepburn. The Pierre's perfect view

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has inspired resident writers such as Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon) and John O'Hara (Pal Joey). New York actress Claire Trevor is presently a resident of the Pierre. Much of her early career was spent typecast as a golden-hearted floozy, but her crowning moment came when she earned an Academy Award for the 1948 film Kay Largo. Photos of that suspense thriller's leading man, Humphrey Bogart, are conspicuously placed about her antique-laden home.

The barbershop at the Pierre Hotel is where celebrities like Al Pacino, Ryan O'Neal, and Luciano Pavarotti meet to have their locks trimmed while they discuss their latest movie or concert deals. If you don't mind being clipped for thirty-five dollars, visit Gio's Barber Shop, 2 East 61st Street. Head back to 60th Street and turn left.

At 10 East 60th Street is a nightclub immortalized in movies and music, the Copacabana. In the forties and fif-ties, it reigned supreme as the preeminent place for celebrities

to be seen. Gossip columnists like Walter Winchell worked the tables nightly. Headliners included Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Lena Home, and Jimmy Durante. Beware, there is a possibility the club may be moving to a new Manhattan location. Continue on 60th Street to Park Avenue and turn right.

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Frank Sinatra went looking for comedian and well-known imbiber Joe E. Lewis, who hadn't appeared for his 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. shows at the Copacabana. When he discovered his buddy plastered at a nearby bar, Frank told him, "You're on." "How am Z doing?" responded the tipsy jokester. (The life story of Joe E. Lewis, who switched to comedy after his vocal cords were damaged in a mob attack, was the subject of the 1957 film The Joker Is Wild. He was portrayed by none other than his good friend Frank Sinatra.)

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Delmonico's is a thirty-two story building at 502 Park Avenue,⁵ which is home to Broadway and film star Richard Harris. The building, also the residence of director Robert Altman, at one time housed the late television variety-show host Ed Sullivan. Walk north on Park Avenue a couple of blocks to our next stop.

Carol Channing, the actress best remembered as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the play Hello, Dolly!-in which she appeared for over three thousand performances-resides at 540 Park Avenue.⁶ These days, she keeps busy creating children's rec-ords and appearing as a guest on numerous TV shows. A few doors north, at 563 Park Avenue7 is the home of John Irving, author of the novel The World According to Garp.

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When Carol Channing lunches at the Russian Tea Room, she brings her own food. She claims her concoction of a grassy substance mixed with dried fish, prepared at home and placed on the restaurant's fine china, helps her stay young and healthy.

Our next stop if the Manhattan home of stunning supermodel Elle MacPherson, who resides at 40 East 61st Street.⁸ Her home can be reached by heading west on 61st Street from Park Avenue toward 5th Avenue.

Down the block is Aureole, 34 East 61st Street (212-319-1660), an informal restaurant with prices not so casual. Chef Charles Palmer turns this elegant town house into a food lover's paradise that draws the likes of Daryl Hannah, Goldie

Hawn, Dustin Hoffman, and Mat-thew Broderick. If you're so inclined, check on lunch reservations and hope for a cancellation. Continue west to 5th Avenue and turn right.

One-of-a-kind singer and actress Dolly Parton lives at 800 5th Avenue⁹ in a well-built thirty-three-story structure. Designers of the com-

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One thirty east 63rd Street¹¹ is the home of Baron R. de Rothschild, of the famed international family of bankers. His neighbor a few doors east is the warm and insightful talk-show host Sally Jessy Raphael. This stubborn lady, who was fired from eighteen broadcasting jobs before achieving stunning suc-cess in both radio and television, resides at 139 East 63rd Street.¹²

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Sally Jessy Raphael feels she's well suited to New York. New Yorkers are success-driven; so is she. Manhattan is a restau-rant town; Sally is a restaurant person. New York is filled with theaters; she adores the theater. Her fantasy is to have time to enjoy all these delights.

The Barbizon Hotel, 140 East 63rd Street, is presently a very fashionable full-service hotel, but it was once a boardinghouse for aspiring actresses. Stars who once lived in this attractive redbrick building include Liza Minnelli, Candice Bergen, Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford, and Cloris Leachman. Walk west to 5th Avenue to arrive at our next residence.

Eight seventeen 5th Avenue is where Richard Nixon tried to purchase an apartment for $970,000. (His application was impeached by the condo board.) The former President instead purchased a nearby town house. At a twelve-story luxury com-plex across the street, at 820 5th Avenue,¹³ New York so-cialite Ann Getty occupies the entire floor, which includes five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and seven servant's rooms.

Farther north, author and surveyor of sexuality Shere Hite has her home at 828 5th Avenue.¹⁴ In the same classic build-ing lives songstress Donna Summer. We next travel east on 64th Street a short distance.

Best known for her fact-finding on the once-popular tele-vision show "To Tell the Truth," Kitty Carlisle Hart resides at 32 East 64th Street.¹⁵ The former actress and singer is involved in a wide range of public-service activities and has twice served as chairwoman of the New York Council of the Arts. Film director Otto Preminger lived two blocks farther east, off Lexington Avenue, in an attractive stucco building

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at 129 East 64th Street,¹⁶ until his death in 1986. Walk back west on 64th Street to 5th Avenue and turn right.

Automotive genius John DeLorean has a magnificent home at 834 5th Avenue.¹⁷ John's connoisseur sports car, named for himself, was produced in Ireland until his company went bankrupt. The building is also home to clothing designer and socialite Carolyn Roehm and her husband, mergers-and-acquisitions king Henry Kravis. Leave 5th Avenue once again, taking 65th Street a short distance east.

Le Cirque, 58 East 65th Street (212-794-9292), is one of the area's many restaurants that cater to celebrities who enjoy elegant dining in exclu-sive establishments. Le Cirque is among the top three or four restaurants in the country for stargazing. Movie stars, Presi-dents, corporate heads, and rock stars make this budget-busting bistro a definite stop on any visit to the Big Apple. Head back west along 65th Street to Madison Avenue and make a right turn.

Need to stop and rest your

feet more affordably? Try the Mayfair Coffee Shop at 782 Madison Avenue. Take a seat at the counter and have Art Carney's son scramble you up some eggs. Jerry Lewis bites into a beefy burger whenever he stops in.

Craving a sweet treat? Try Godiva's gourmet house of choc-olates just across the street at 793 Madison Avenue. Joan Rivers and her Yorkshire terrier, Spike, rarely take a walk without stopping in for a sniff and a lick. Steven Spielberg always picks up chocolates for his crew when filming in the area, and Michael J. Fox doesn't seem to mind autographing customers' boxes of candy. Walk north to 67th Street, turn left, and head back toward Central Park.

Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione lives at 16 East 67th Street¹⁸ in a heavy limestone building that contrasts nicely with the more subtle town houses neaby. Continue to 5th Avenue, turn right, then make another right, and head to 30 East 68th Street,¹⁹ the home of television personality Mary Stewart. She resides just off Madison Avenue.

Madison Avenue has some of the most exclusive clothiers

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in the world, which is why the rich and famous have little trouble finding their necessities in neighborhood shops. Even if you don't have the $3,000 to shell out for that tailored jacket, you might find it exciting to visit Gianni Versace, 816 Madison Avenue, and look through the styles that gave the "Miami Vice" look to Don Johnson. Stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Billy Joel, Mick Jagger, and Phil Collins stop in from time to time.

Enough shopping, let's get back to stargazing on 5th Av-enue. Take 68th Street to 5th Avenue and head north.

Actress Marlo Thomas and celebrated talk-show host hus-band Phil Donahue, have moved across Central Park from the star-studded Eldorado at 300 Central Park West to a more sedate building at 875 5th Avenue.²⁰ Their penthouse resi-dence offers a breathtaking view of Central Park. Phil presently hosts two talk shows emanating from New York: the Emmy Award-winning "Donahue" program and the "Pozner and Donahue Show" (cohosted by Russian journalist Vladimir Poz-ner). Walk a few doors on 69th Street to our next stop.

In her late thirties, an independently-minded Marlo Thomas met and married talk-show host Phil Donahue, whom she fell in love with after appearing on his TV show. Marlo's life has been much like that of her character for four years on the successful sitcom' 'That Girl'': Both were very independent and slow to marry, and both had moved to the Big Apple to pursue an acting career.

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At 15 East 69th Street,²¹ in the Westbury Hotel, resides tennis star Ilie Nastase. The late musical-comedy star Fanny Brice, subject of the hit Broadway show Funny Girl, also had a home here until 1938. Down the block a short distance, at 52 East 69th Street,²² was the Manhattan residence of bosomy sexpot Jayne Mansfield. Continue walking east another block and a half.

To find an actress who best exemplifies New York City, look no further than three-time Tony, onetime Oscar, and onetime Emmy Award-winning actress Liza Minnelli. Liza, daughter of legendary star Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli, who spent her childhood living at the Plaza Hotel and her teenage years (while searching for minor acting roles) at the Barbizon Hotel, presently resides at 150 East 69th Street,²³ New York, New York (1977) and Arthur (1981) are

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one block to 72nd Street, turn right, and walk a few blocks to the next location.

East 72nd Street, with its proximity to Central Park and its other amenities, has been a setting for numerous feature films, as well as a home address for many stars. One fourteen East 72nd Street²⁷ is where Jon Voight slipped past the door-man and into Sylvia Miles's apartment for a midday rendez-vous in the movie Midnight Cowboy (1969). Continue walking east on 72nd Street.

Arlene Dahl, a New York cover girl in the 1940s, later a star of Broadway and the movies, resides at 150 East 72nd Street.²⁸ Her neighbor, at 160 East 72nd Street,²⁹ is the actress and former New York radio talk-show host Joan Fontaine. Head south on Lexington Avenue to reach our next stop on the tour.

The Healthy Candle, 972 Lexington Avenue, (212-472-0970) is a favorite vegetarian takeout spot frequented by health-conscious stars like Kim Basinger and her boyfriend, Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore, and Robin Williams. If you enjoy a flavorful tofu burger and could use a break, seize the moment.

Would you like to get your hair cut while Woody Allen or Howard Cosell is sitting in the next chair? If so, cross the road to York Barbers, 981 Lexington Avenue, an old-fashioned barbershop where for $17 you can have your hair cut by their favorite stylists. Follow 71st Street east to the next location on the tour.

Audrey Hepburn resided at 171 East 71st Street³⁰ in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). This simple yet elegant town house remains much the same as it was in the movie. Continue walking east on 71st Street.

New York-born actress Louise Lasser appeared in several of ex-husband Woody Alien's early films but achieved greatest recognition for starring in the hit soap-opera spoof "Mary Hart-man, Mary Hartman." She has her home at 200 East 71st Street,³¹ at the comer of 3rd Avenue. Popular music singer Lana Cantrell lives one avenue over, at 300 East 71st Street.³² We next stroll south down 2nd Avenue to 70th Street, turn right, and head toward 3rd Avenue.

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Asked why she chooses to reside in New York as opposed to L. A., Louise Lasser mentioned that' 'Hollywood lacks excitement, it has no neurotic beat all its own, and the leaves don't move. The leaves don't move on the trees. Nothing falls from the sky ever. 1 like to be in places where things fall from the sky."

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Singer and actress Kaye Ballard lives at 211 East 70th Street,³³ as does television personality Virginia Graham. Another resident of this modem highrise is Sidney Pokier, the first black matinee idol. Heading west toward Central Park, we come to 162 East 70th Street, the brownstone used as a psychiatrist's office in the 1980 horror film Dressed to Kill, which starred Michael Caine. We next stroll east back to 3rd Avenue, head south two blocks to 68th Street, and turn east-ward.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller resides at 215 East 68th Street.³⁴ This New York native was married to Marilyn Monroe for five years, after which he wrote about the agonizing relationship in the play After the Fail, which premiered at New York's Repertory Theater in 1964. In the same buliding, four-time Academy Award-winning lyricist Sammy Cahn resided until his death in the early part of 1993. The beige walls of Sammy's airy home had been covered with photographs of popular singers who have rendered versions of his many hit tunes. A few doors farther east, at 230 East 68th Street,³⁵ is the home of "60 Minutes" television reporter Morley Safer. Let's now head west, back toward Lexington Av-enue, turn left, and take a short walk to our next location.

The Forgotten Woman, 888 Lexington Avenue, is a pop-ular store that supplies overwei-uh, pleasingly plump stars with fabulous fashions to fit their full-fledged figures. Oprah Winfrey, Roseanne Arnold, Shelley Winters, Julia Child, and Beverly Sills are just a few of the celebrity shoppers. Not long ago, Roseanne and Shelley accidentally met in the store and proceeded to stage an impromptu comic performance that left their fellow customers rolling in the aisles. Head back east on 66th Street to our next stop on the comer of 3rd Avenue.

In a luxury apartment complex called the Manhattan House, 200 East 66th Street,³⁶ resides comedic actress Imogene Coca. This building was also once home to jazz great Benny Goodman and to actress Grace Kelly, who had pre-viously been residing at the nearby Barbizon Hotel for Women. Continue south on 3rd Avenue one short block.

The Sign of the Dove, 1110 3rd Avenue (212-861-8080), is a gourmet restaurant in a charming building. This wonder-fully romantic establishment with its collection of nineteenth-century antiques is popular with celebrities seeking intimacy in a classic setting. Walk west on 65th Street back to Lex-ington Avenue.

For a less pricey refreshment stop, try Sel &. Poivre (212-517-5780) 853 Lexington Avenue. Beverly Sills, Tony Randall, and Jackie Mason are regulars at this trendy cafe. (Jackie

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Did Greta Garbo foretell the future when she stopped to pat and admire a beautiful baby in a carriage on 52nd Street? The in/ant being wheeled was none other than Brooke Shields.

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Brooke's neighbor, a few doors east at 200 East 62nd Street,³⁹ at the comer of 3rd Avenue, is actress Peggy Cass, often seen as a guest panelist on game shows.

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Plaintiff Peggy Cass was awarded $460,000 m a 1985 law-suit against a physician at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital. "I'll never play a nun again," the gimpy actress moaned. "I can't kneel.'' The daydreaming doc had operated on the wrong knee- a goof that left Peggy, who almost became a nun, and then played one in three productions, unable to kneel in her rote in Agnes of God (1985).

East 62nd Street is a road for writers. At 201 East 62nd Street⁴⁰ is the home of best-selling author Rona Jaffe. A few doors east, at 229 East 62nd Street,⁴¹ lives comedian David Brenner, who has several books to his name. The most re-nowned writer on the block is Tom Wolfe, founder of the "new journalism" and author of Bonfire of the Vanities, the controversial novel that summed up the 1980s. Tom lives at 232 East 62nd Street⁴² with his trademark collection of starched shirts and white suits. Walk back to 3rd Avenue, turn left, and take a short stroll south.

Perhaps Tom shops at Bloomingdale's, 1000 3rd Avenue, a great place to spend an afternoon shopping and celebrity-watching. The cosmetics counter, Estee Lauder's spa, and the

five Bloomies restaurants attract the likes of Diana Ross, Liza Minnelli, Joan Rivers, Cheryl Tiegs, and Jackie Onassis. A number of movies have been filmed in and around the store, which takes up an entire square block, including Moscow on

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the Hudson (1984), starring Robin Williams, who played a Russian musician attempting to defect to the West.

We're in the home stretch. Need a snack to get you to the tour's finish line? Relax and enjoy gourmet ice cream at Ser-endipity 3, 225 East 60th Street (212-838-3531). This com-bination restaurant-boutique attracts stars including Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Barbra Streisand, and Cher. Cher had her party for the movie Moonstruck (1987) at this fun eatery and the late Andy Warhol used to sketch here while satisfying his sweet tooth. The restaurant is on 60th Street just a half a block east of Bloomingdale's.

A brisk ten-to-fifteen'minute walk brings us to 425 East 63rd Street,⁴³ home to actress Myrna Loy, voted "Queen of the Movies" in a poll conducted by Ed Sullivan. To reach Myma's residence, walk east on 60th Street to 1st Avenue, turn left, head north three blocks to 63 Street, and turn right. Five blocks south and just east of 1st Avenue, at 425 East 58th Street,⁴⁴ is the residence of Ginger Rogers, whose ten-movie partnership with Fred Astaire has thrilled audiences for dec-ades. Returning three blocks north to 61st Street and heading west from 1st Avenue to 2nd Avenue takes us to the final stop on the tour.

Stiff and sore from your high-class hike? Stop in for a steam, shower, and massage at the Vertical Club. If ever there was a health club packed with major stars, the Vertical Club, 330 East 61st Street, fits that description. Stars like Bill

Cosby, Brooke Shields, and Cher, and even professional ath-letes such as Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert, have all taken advantage of this posh urban country club.

After relaxing at the health club, your best bet to catch a bus downtown is to walk west on 61st Street to 2nd Avenue;

for the uptown bus, walk east to 1st Avenue. The closest subway station (N, R, 4, 5, or 6) is reached by heading west on 61st Street to Lexington Avenue and south to 59th Street.

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UPPER UPPER EAST SIDE

STARS IN THE AREA

Woody Alien Mel Brooks Glenn Close Rodney Dangerfield Madeline Kahn Bill Murray Paul Newman Anthony Quinn Robert Redford Elizabeth Taylor

NUMBER	ADDRESS	NAME
1	315 East 72nd Street	Elizabeth Taylor
2	920 5th Avenue	Gloria Swanson (deceased)
3	11 East 73rd Street	Roy Scheider
4	778 Park Avenue	William F. Buckley, Jr.
5	118 East 73rd Street	Gloria Steinem
6	23 East 74th Street	Dorothy Parker (deceased)
		Lena Home
7	6 East 74th Street	Tammy Grimes
8	930 5th Avenue	Woody Allen
9	944 5th Avenue	Barbara Walters
10	35 East 76th Street	Hannah and Her Sisters
11	945 5th Avenue	Gelsey Kirkland
		Claudette Colbert
12	950 5th Avenue	Anne Bass
13	955 5th Avenue	Robert Redford
14	960 5th Avenue	Claus von Bulow
15	965 5th Avenue	Charles Grodin
16	969 5th Avenue	Glenn Close
17	9 East 79th Street	Art Garfunkel
18	50 East 79th Street	Geraldine Fitzgerald
19	1080 Madison Avenue	Ben Gazzara
20	225 East 79th Street	Gene Shalit
21	109 East 79th Street	Dick Cavett
		Carrie Nye
22	888 Park Avenue	Caroline Kennedy
23	903 Park Avenue	Ruth Warrick
24	941 Park Avenue	Tom Brokaw
25	955 Park Avenue	Regis Philbin
26	970 Park Avenue	Marvin Hamlisch
27	975 Park Avenue	Madeline Kahn

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28	1021 Park Avenue	Paloma Picasso
		Neil Sedaka
29	1016 5th Avenue	Stella Adier (deceased)
		Julia Meade
30	1025 5th Avenue	Gavin McLeod
31	1040 5th Avenue	Jackie Onassis
32	17 East 89th Street	Sally Kirkland
33	50 East 89th Street	Mel Brooks
		Anne Bancroft
		Tommy Tune
34	1120 Park Avenue	Bill Beutel
35	1155 Park Avenue	Stockard Charming
36	1172 Park Avenue	Ira Levine
37	1107 5th Avenue	Ralph Lauren
38	1120 5th Avenue	Paul Newman
		Joanne Woodward
39	8 East 96th Street	Bill Murray
40	125 East 94th Street	Erica Jong
41	200 East 94th Street	Eddie Fisher
42	179 East 93rd Street	Marx Brothers (deceased)
43	10 Gracie Square	Gloria Vanderbilt
44	519 East 84th Street	Walter Cronkite
45	60 East End Avenue	Anthony Quinn
46	435 East 79th Street	Joe Cocker
47	420 East 78th Street	James Cagney
		(deceased)
48	500 East 77th Street	Leslie Gore
49	530 East 76th Street	Rodney Dangerfield
50	407 East 75th Street	Richard Avedon
51	541 East 72nd Street	George Plimpton

Discreet, quiet, and exclusive, the Upper, Upper East Side is a natural home for many screen legends. Where else in New York can one sense the city's throbbing pulse one moment and so easily escape it the next? The final leg of our tour will cake us to homes of busy stars who find tranquility in apartments that overlook the East River and Carl Schurz Park.

A focal point of the neighborhood is Museum Mile, a string of magnificent institutions along 5th Avenue between 75th and 92nd streets. Among them are the illustrious Metropoli-tan, Frank Lloyd Wright's extraordinary Guggenheim, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. A concentration of superstars have taken up residence all along this strip, which has served as a setting for many feature films.

Our tour begins at 315 East 72nd Street, home to actress

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Elizabeth Taylor, and culminates at George Plimpton's resi-dence, 541 East 72nd Street. We'll cover an area bounded on the west by 5th Avenue and on the east by the East River. Seventy-second Street is the southern boundary and 96th Street is the northern limit.

*Starting Address:*	72nd Street and 2nd Avenue
*Length of Tour:*	3 Hours, 40 Minutes
*Best Starting Time:*	10:00 A.M. or Noon
*Subway:*	6 to 68th Street
*Bus:*	15,30, 72,101, or 102
*Bring Along:*	Comfortable shoes, sketch pad, an art-history book, and some of Paul Newman's gourmet pop-corn

THE TOUR

Our journey begins just off the northeast corner of 72nd Street and 2nd Avenue. The best way to reach this location is by using the 72nd Street crosstown bus or the 2nd Avenue bus heading south. If you prefer the subway, the stop (#6 train) at Lexington Avenue and 68th Street is a short walk: Three blocks north on Lexington and two blocks east on 2nd will take you here.

Elizabeth Taylor, whose posh apartment is at 315 East 72nd Street¹ has always had an intimate relationship with Gotham. Whether she's ap-pearing in a Broadway play, such as the 1983 revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives, in which she starred with two-time spouse Richard Burton, or acting in one of her many New York-based films, Liz loves spending rime in the Big Ap-

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ple. Her most important project in the city of late has been to raise funds for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, AMFAR, an organization she helped found.

Elizabeth resides near Gotham's celebrity Chinese restau-rant, Fu's, 1395 2nd Avenue (212-517-9670), a few doors north of 72nd Street. Check it out one evening for dinner. Who knows? You might be sitting in the same chair Paul Newman occupied the night before. Glance over at table 23- it's Mel Brooks's favorite. Catherine Deneuve, Sidney Pokier, or John Kennedy, Jr., might also be dining at this elegant Asian eatery.

Now let's head west on 72nd Street toward 5th Avenue, where stargazing is at its best. Gloria Swanson made 920 5th Avenue² her principal residence until her death at the ripe old age of eighty-four. The revered actress was always proud to live in New York and displayed that pride through various involvements here: She starred in many Broadway plays, cre-ated her own New York-based cosmetics company, and hosted a talk show on a local television station. As we continue north up 5th Avenue, turn onto 73rd Street and head east.

Roy Scheider lives at 11 East 73rd Street³ in an Italian Renaissance mansion built in 1904 for newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer. Roy began his acting career in New York by appearing on Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway stages. Far-ther east, we come to Park Avenue.

At 778 Park Avenue⁴ you find the sumptuous apartment of William F. Buckley, Jr., the noted conservative columnist and host of TV's "Firing Line." Head back down Park Avenue and turn left onto 73rd Street. Gloria Steinem, the influential author and feminist, lives with her cat, Magritte, at 118 East 73rd Street⁵ in a duplex crammed with books. Walk east on 73rd Street to Lexington Avenue and turn left.

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Sexpert Ruth Westheimer has a huge following but a tiny build. Known as an author and talk-show host, the diminutive doctor is also credited with the creation of the Dr. Ruth Pillow. East Side restaurants, such as Hulots, 1007 Lexington Avenue, are delighted to pile three or four tablecloths on her chair so that the bubbly therapist can more easily reach her champagne.

Care for a $125 sandwich? If so, head for William Poll gourmet caterers at 1051 Lexington Avenue and ask for a beluga caviar on rye to go (hold the mayo, please!). Manhattan socialites

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and major stars such as Lauren Bacall, Cheryl Tiegs, and Christie Brinkley consider William Poll a critical resource in planning any successful dinner party.

If caviar isn't your style but you still don't mind spending those few extra dollars for lunch, visit Mortimer's, 1057 Lex-ington Avenue (212-517-6400). Mortimer's is known around town as a favorite club for "ladies who lunch" and their ce-lebrity friends. Sit at one of the comer tables and eavesdrop- discreetly, please-on the latest society gossip. Take Lexing-ton Avenue north to 75th Street, make a left turn, and head two blocks west to Madison Avenue.

The Whitney Museum of American Art, Madison Avenue at Seventy-fifth Street, stands out from its surroundings be-cause of its stark fortresslike appearance. It showcases an ex-cellent permanent collection of twentieth-century American art, as well as constantly changing special exhibits.

Madison Avenue is known worldwide for its elegant shops, and Givenchy, 954 Madison Avenue, diagonally across from the Whitney Museum, is certainly one of the classiest. When a New York socialite needs that perfect gown to wear to the season's top charity function, a visit to here is mandatory. Perhaps Hubert de Givenchy himself will attend to her needs, as the Paris designer flies in frequently to supervise the shop's operation. Continue north on Madison Avenue.

Andy Warhol was a major collector of antiques, so he was a regular visitor at Vito Giallo Antiques at 962 Madison. Other famous clients enjoy viewing the unusual and unique items on display.

Turn back around and head one block down Madison Av-enue to 74th Street. Heading west toward 5th Avenue on 74th Street, we find the Volney, a former residence hotel that was home to writer Dorothy Parker until her death in 1967. This 23 East 74th Street⁶ address is presently home to Lena Home. The ageless singer, who was born in Brooklyn, began her career at Harlem's fabled Cotton Club and Apollo Theater.

Uptown's hippest Italian restaurant is Coco Pazzo, a high-priced family-style cafe at 23 East 74th Street (212-794-0205). Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, Billy Baldwin, and a number of music-world greats help make this location primo for those who enjoy celebrity-watching.

Across the street, in an elegant building at 6 East 74th Street,⁷ resides smoky-voiced actress Tammy Grimes, a Tony Award winner. Our next stop is on the northeast comer of 74th Street and 5th Avenue.

If a contest was held to find the person who best exemplifies the creativity, intellectual depth, and individuality that set

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New Yorkers apart, Woody Allen would far outpace the com-petitors. This brilliant writer-comedian-actor-director lives simply in an elegant complex at 930 5th Avenue,⁸ just a subway ride from his childhood home in Brooklyn, where he was born Allen Konigsberg.

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When a young beautiful actress moved to Gotham in search of fame, her fairy godfather turned out to be Woody Allen. A reluctant doorman at the director's building took a letter from this inexperienced small-town performer and within twenty-four hours she received an acting job from the man she now calls ' 'Woody the Great.'' Present-day aspirants be warned, however, that building policy has since changed: Nothing is accepted, no exceptions.

A great place for Woody-watching is Michael's Pub, 211 East 55th Street, where he plays the jazz clarinet every Monday night. He was making music there the night he won two Oscars for the movie Annie Hall (1977), and was thus unable to collect his awards personally that evening. Continue north on 5th Avenue.

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Sightings of Woody Allen in Manhattan are common and sometimes quite humorous. One doorman spotted the reclusive co-median doing cartwheels to entertain a lady as he exited the park.

Barbara Walters, the immensely successful television journalist, has become one of Manhattan's society elite. This fascinating lady lives at 944 5th Avenue⁹ in a very fashionable space with more than enough footage for both Bar-bara and her attractive daughter, Jackie. Barbara chose to send Jackie to Dalton, a neightborhood prep school with a reputation that is tops among New York's upper crust. Stars stay at the Carlyle Ho-tel, 35 East 76th Street¹⁰ because they enjoy the attentive yet dis-creet service. So civilized! To reach

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few miles south of his current residence at 1080 Madison Avenue.¹⁹ We now head east on 81st Street two blocks to Lexington Avenue, turn right, and walk two blocks south.

Strakes Flowers, 1140 Lexington Avenue, is a favorite among neighborhood celebrities. Art Gartunkel comes spe-cially for anemones, while Angie Dickinson varies her selec-tions. Mariel Hemingway orders flowers for her nearby restaurant and Sandy Duncan always jokes with florists about opening her own shop.

One block east of the flower shop, just past 3rd Avenue, at 225 East 79th Street,²⁰ is the home of popular film critic Gene Shalit. Born in New York City, Gene loves the reaction he receives from fans admiring his walruslike mustache and bouffant Brillo-like hairdo. Turn around and head west on 79th Street.

The next stop is Dick Cavett's home at 109 East 79th Street.²¹ The cerebral talk-show host resides with his actress wife, Carrie Nye, whom he met at Yale University. We now head to Park Avenue, turn left, and walk one block.

Eight eighty-eight Park Avenue²² is the residence of Car-oline Kennedy, daughter of the late President John F. Ken-nedy. Her home's location isn't surprising considering the close relationship she has with her mom, Jackie, who lives just blocks away. Change directions and head north up Park Av-enue to the home of movie actress and soap star Ruth Warrick, who resides at 903 Park Avenue.²³ Continue north.

Tom Brokaw,²⁴ the NBC nightly newscaster, anchors his life at 941 Park Avenue. His wife, Meredith, once Miss South Dakota, owns a nearby toy store named the Penny Whistle. Bronx-born Regis Philbin, costar of TV's popular "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee," began his career as a page on Steve Allen's original "Tonight Show." Regis has a luxurious home at 955 Park Avenue,²⁵ which he shares with wife, Joy, and two daughters.

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Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me?" shouted Regis Philbin as he awaited movie stardom in a film with newfound buddy Bobby (Robert DeNiro) that was being shot at Elaine's Restaurant. After eight anxious hours, Regis was called to fulfill his lifetime dream. On camera, he spoke the now-immortal words Thank you, after which he was thanked, given union wages, and told to let go of the chair and go home. The movie being filmed was Night in the City. (1992).

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America's most famous stars, also resided there up until her death in December 1992.

A few doors up, at 1025 5th Avenue,³⁰ lives actor Gavin McLeod, ship's captain in the popular television show "Love Boat." Continue walking north.

Almost every New Yorker has an interesting story about sighting Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. During my interviews, shopkeepers and restaurant owners were only too happy to gloat about the time Jackie O came around. This remarkable and mysterious woman, a resident of 1040 5th Avenue,³¹keeps busy working as an editor at Doubleday and volunteering for several New York charities.

We now turn off 5th Avenue and head to 17 East 89th Street,³² home to irrepressible actress Sally Kirkland. On the way to Sally's, you pass the striking spiral of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, between 88th and 89th streets, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Heading farther down 89th Street, we come to Madison Avenue.

Celebrities are picky when it comes to lingerie, so it's no surprise that Roberta's, 1251 Madison Avenue, is a popular source. Sally Kirkland is a regular client. Kevin Bacon isn't afraid to help his girlfriend pick out sexy outfits, and Joanne Woodward relishes the wide selection of lacy slips the store offers. Continue east on 89th Street.

At 50 East 89th Street,³³ you'll find the residence of Brooklyn-born Mel Brooks, who began his career playing drums in the Borscht Belt, a group of kosher resorts that once dotted the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. Producer, writer, director, and actor, this comic one-man band lives with his beautiful wife, actress Anne Bancroft. The same 89th Street building is also home to a Broadway choreographer and dancer, the very tall Tommy Tune. Walk farther east along 89th Street, crossing Park Avenue.

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Mel Brooks's most embarrassing moment took place in New York's Stage Deli as he was sipping a Cel-Ray soda. A gentleman had shoved a piece of paper at him, so Mel, happy to give an autograph, asked for a pencil and the fellow's name. After the man replied, "Ervoon," Mel wrote on paper, "To Irving, All the best, Mel Brooks." Only later did the flustered comedian realize that the supposed fan, who could hardly speak English, was only seeking directions.

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The Carnegie mansion at 2 East 91st Street, built in 1898 as a sixty-four room home for Andrew Carnegie, now houses the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. This magnificent structure ap-peared as the Russian embassy in the movie Marathon Man (1976), which starred Dustin Hoffman. We finally arrive at 5th Avenue. Head north.

Fashion designer Ralph Lauren lives at 1107 5th Avenue,³⁷ a number of blocks north of the boutique that bears his name. This building originally boasted a fifty-four-room pent-house apartment with a private elevator to a ground-level driveway. The extravagant arrangement was designed to serve the building's first owner, Mrs. E. F. Hutton.

Superstar actor, salad-dressing king, and racecar driver Paul Newman has his home at 1120 5th Avenue.³⁸ He began his illustrious career in New York City doing minor roles in tele-vision. Before making his mark in movies like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Hud (1963), and Cool Hand Luke (1967), Paul was a Broadway understudy in the play Picnic. Another Picnic stand-in was Joanne Woodward, and the pair soon fell in love and married. Joanne, known for her tireless work on behalf of charitable causes, contributes much of the financing for Dancers, a New York ballet company. This pair of down-to-earth stars is spotted often at restaurants and shops all over the East Side. Turn right onto 94th Street.

Songwriter George S. Kaufman occupied at home at 14 East 94th Street during the late 1920s. Return to 5th Avenue, head north two blocks, and turn right onto 96th Street. At 8 East 96th Street³⁹ is the residence of comic actor Bill Murray. Bill's first break came in 1975 when he was hired to make people laugh on the National Lampoon radio show, but his career really took off when he became a regular on "Saturday Night Live."

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Bill Murray ordered some supplies from the 90th Street Pharmacy on Madison Avenue. When the delivery boy came. Bill discovered he had little money for a tip, so he rewarded the lad with a loaf of white bread.

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Let's now take a short walk east over to Park Avenue; then go two blocks south and a few doors left, arriving at 125 East 94th Street,⁴⁰ residence of Erica Jong, author of the contro-versial book Fear of Flying. Eddie Fisher, as well known for the women he's married and divorced (Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds) as he is for his singing voice, has his home at 200 East 94th Street,⁴¹ at the comer of 3rd Avenue. Head one block south on 3rd Avenue to 93rd Street, turn right, and walk a few doors west to our next stop.

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Eddie Fisher has an outstanding IOU for a bowl of soup at a nearby bagel shop. ''Put it on my tab,'' he ordered the cashier on a day long ago. When I was told the two dollars had never been paid, I asked the management to place it on my own tab, along with a few other items, under the name Kris Kringle.

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The Marx Brothers spent their childhood at 179 East 93rd Street.⁴² They left the Big Apple in 1910, when their mother, Minnie, decided to move the family's vaudeville act to Chi-cago. Turn your feet around and return east to 3rd Avenue, make a right turn, and head to 92nd Street.

It's time for a well-deserved break. How about Third Av-enue Bagel, 3rd Avenue and 92nd Street, (212-534-0200) for some authentic New York cuisine? Regulars here include Rick Moranis (Thursdays), hockey star Rod Gilbert (mornings), plus Gene Hackman, Elizabeth McGovern, and Brooke Shields. Brooke impressed the owner when she made a special visit to the shop with signed photos she'd promised to cus-tomers on an earlier trip. We next walk east on 92nd Street to 2nd Avenue and head south three blocks.

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Twenty-year-old Christina Applegate, the flirtatious daughter on television sitcom "Married with Children," was astounded to learn that the Third Avenue Bagel staff had not see her nude layout as Miss April in the 1992 Penthouse Calendar. The starlet quickly purchased a copy from a nearby newstand and brought it back far the young lads to inspect.

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Elaine's, 1703 Second Avenue, (212-534-8103) is the ultimate New York stargazer's restaurant. If you're in the mood for

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Italian food amidst Gotham's glitterati, this is the place. The regulars include Diane Keaton, Chevy Chase, Diana Ross, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty, Mike Nichols, Farrah Fawcett, Kurt Vonnegut, Jacqueline Onassis, and Woody Allen. Mastermind of the res-taurant's success is owner Elaine Kaufman, who acts as surrogate Jewish mother to many of her famous patrons. Two of the movies filmed in this celebrity hangout include Network (1976), starring Faye Dunaway and William Holden, and Manhattan (1979), directed by Woody Allen. One recent evening, the entire restaurant was taken over for the filming of Night in the City (1992), starring Robert De Niro.

The final portion of this tour begins near the East River, fifteen minutes away on foot, five minutes and three dollars by taxi. If walking, head south on 2nd Avenue to 84th Street, turn left, and stroll three block east, crossing East End Avenue.

We begin at 10 Gracie Square,⁴³ off 84th Street and east of East End Avenue. In that quiet, isolated location resides designer and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt. The area's focal point is Gracie Mansion, since 1942 the official residence of New York's mayor, which is located in Carl Schurz Park, along the bank of the East River.

Not far away lives the journalist once considered "the most trusted man in America," former news anchor Walter Cronkite. Does Walter say "And that's the way it is" every evening as he kisses his wife, Betsy good night in their home at 519 East 84th Street?⁴⁴ To reach his residence, return west on 84th Street just past East End Avenue. Next, head back to East End Avenue, turn right, and walk south. At 60 East End Avenue⁴⁵ resides a versatile actor best known for his title role in Zorba the Greek (1964), Anthony Quinn. Continue walking down East End Avenue to 79th Street, turn right, and head west one and a half blocks, crossing York Avenue.

Rock-and-roll singer Joe Cocker has a home at 435 East 79th Street.⁴⁶ Head back to York Avenue, walk south one block to 78th Street, and continue west. At 420 East 78th Street⁴⁷ is a four-story building James Cagney lived in when he was a young stage actor. Return to York Avenue and head

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DOWNTOWN

STARS IN THE AREA

Cher Harry Connick, Jr. Tom Cruise Robert De Niro

 Matt Dillon Richard Gere Grace Jones Rob Lowe

 Bette Midler Susan Sarandon

NUMBER	ADDRESS	NAME
1	122 East 10th Street	Karen Allen
2	355 Bowery	Barry Bostwick
3	46 East 3rd Street	Quentin Crisp
4	14 East 4th Street	Cher
		Rob Lowe
		Cheryl Lowe
		Keith Richards
		Jonathan Elias
		Tom Cruise
		Nicole Kidman
5	298 Mulberry Street	Harry Connick, Jr.
6	230 Elizabeth Street	Eric Bogosian
7	300 Mercer Street	Scan Young
8	119 MacDougal Street	*The Godfather, Part II*
		*Serpico*
9	Washington Square Park	*Barefoot in the Park*
		When Harry Met Sally
10	27 Washington Square North	Matthew Broderick
		Uta Hagen
11	124 Waverly Place	Lauren Hutton
12	One 5th Avenue	Wendy Wasserstein
13	Two 5th Avenue	Ed Koch
14	20 5th Avenue	John Heffeman
15	25 5th Avenue	Brian De Palma
16	25 East 9th Street	Susan Sarandon
		Tim Robbins
17	49 West 9th Street	Matt Dillon
		Victor Ramos
18	26 East 10th Street	Richard Gere
		Cindy Crawford
19	38 West 10th Street	Kathleen Turner
		Jay Weiss
20	35 West 11th Street	Jane Curtin

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21	35 East 12th Street	Mikhail Baryshnikov
22	4 Patchin Place	e. e. cummings (deceased)
23	134 West 13th Street	Joe Jackson
24	61 Jane Street	Judd Hirsch
25	317 West 12th Street	Andrew McCarthy
26	27 Bethune Street	Jennifer Grey
27	166 Bank Street	Grace Jones
28	3 7 7 West 11th Street	Gregory Hines
29	218 West 10th Street	Terrence McNally
30	184 Thompson Street	Vincent Spano
31	41 King Street	Ally Sheedy
31	41 King Street	Amanda Plummer
32	451 Washington Street	Bette Midler
33	20 North Moore Street	David Letterman
34	14 North Moore Street	*Ghostbusters*
35	110 Hudson Street	Robert De Niro
		Harvey Keitel
		Lorraine Bracco
36	260 West Broadway	Cyndi Lauper
		Isabella Rossellini
		John F. Kennedy, Jr.
37	240 Centre Street	Cindy Crawford
		Steffi Graf
		Winona Ryder

"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," as sung by Tribeca's very own Cyndi Lauper, characterizes the trendy stars who have settled in New York City's exciting downtown. Here is the place tomorrow's stars come to train and today's slip off their public personae and dress up like average human beings.

East Greenwich Village, with its mix of creative young artists and both social and political radicals, is certainly an intriguing place to start our journey. New York University's illustrious Film School has been the training ground for many of America's best filmmakers. Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Chris Columbus, and Oliver Stone learned the art of film-making with a purpose in this renowned institution spoofed in the 1990 film The Freshman. Crossing to the West Village, the Bohemian spirit is still very much alive but blended in such a way with conventional standards as to make the mix popular to the masses. Farther south, Tribeca is being trail-blazed by Robert De Niro and other superstars who hunger for an unpretentious and quiet escape from the busy streets north of Canal.

The area to be covered on this tour is bounded by 14th Street on the north. Chambers Street on the south, 1st Avenue on the east, and the Hudson River on the west.

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*Starting* Address;	10th Street and 2nd Avenue
Length of Tour:	4 Hours, 30 Minutes
*Best Starting Time:*	10:00 A.M. or Noon
*Subway:*	L, N, R, 4, or 5 to Union Square
*Bus:*	9, 13, 14, 15, 101 or 102
*Bring Along:*	Beads, change for carrot juice-and be sure to dress casually

the tour

To reach the first stop on our tour, when coming from Union Square, take 14th Street east three blocks to 2nd Avenue, make a right, then another right onto 10th Street. If you care to relax prior to your journey, there's Union Square Park with its many park benches within a few yards of the subway station. Care for an apple? On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, farmers sell their produce at inexpensive prices on the north end of the park.

Talented actress Karen Allen lives in a well-kept walk-up building at 122 East 10th Street,¹ only a few doors over from Cooper Union, a college dedicated to the fields of science and art. Karen and the school are located in the East Village, an area whose cheap rents and iconoclastic ways have for years attracted large numbers of artists, writers, actors, and rock musicians, as well as other people who prefer a life outside the mainstream.

Next take 10th street to 3rd Avenue, and make a left. Head south, past the college on your right-hand side, for seven short blocks. This is where 3rd avenue changes its name to the Bowery, and at 355 Bowery² is the residence of Barry Bostwick. From the exterior of the building, it's hard to imagine the spacious home with its exposed brick walls that this fine actor occupies.

Around the comer and halfway down the block, at 46 East 3rd Street,³ in a pink four-story walk-up called the Eastwick, lives writer Quentin Crisp. If you're allergic to dust, be careful around Quentin's home: He once went "four years without

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out this lively coffeehouse and relax to the sound of classical music. Now head back up to the park.

Newlyweds Jane Fonda and Robert Redford met in Wash-ington Square Park⁹ in the film Barefoot in the Park (1967). This vibrant space was also fea-tured in the 1989 comedy When Harry Met Sally. If you visit the park on a sunny day, join the crowds watching the jugglers, mimes, musicians, and come-dians who set up shop there and then pass the hat. Maybe an-other member of the audience will be actor Matthew Broderick, who resides across the street on the north side of the park at 27 Washington Square North.¹⁰ Tony Award-win-ning Matthew, a New York na-tive, caught the acting bug

from his well-known father, the late James Broderick. In the same complex lives accomplished actress and acting teacher Uta Hagen.

On the next block west, over a shoe-repair shop in a brown plastered building at 124 Waverly Place¹¹ lives supermodel and film star Lauren Hutton. When this striking blonde first arrived in New York, she acquired a fuzzy tail in her job as a Playboy Bunny.

Head back two blocks east on Waverly Place to the north side of Washington Square Park and the arch, erected in 1889 for the centennial of George Washington's inauguration as President. A left will bring you to One 5th Avenue,¹² the residence of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, author of The Heidi Chronicles. Her neighbor, in a gray brick building at Two 5th Avenue,¹³ is Ed Koch, Goth-am's controversial ex-mayor. Never at a loss for words, this opinionated character is well suited to his present roles as newspaper columnist and radio talk-show host.

Continue north to a prewar brick building at 20 5th Avenue,¹⁴ where New York-born stage and film actor John Heffernan resides. Nothing mysterious about 25 5th Avenue,¹⁵ even though it's home to Brian De Palma, noted director of movie suspense. When Brian directed Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), he chose a similar building, also on 5th Av-enue but a few miles north, to serve as home to the wealthy socialite played by Tom Hanks.

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It's the home of television comedienne Jane Curtin, who lives in a brick town house painted yellow, with white window trim and a bright red front door. "Saturday Night Live" led to "Kate and Allie" and a career that continues steadily upward. Her colorful dwelling is located at 35 West 11th Street.²⁰

Walk east on llth Street to University Place, make a left, and head one block north. Ready to rest and enjoy a cup of fresh coffee? University Place Restaurant, 101 University Place, (212-475-7727) serves up wholesome grub at inexpen-sive prices. Grab a table near the window so you don't miss the opportunity to spot one of your favorite entertainers out for a morning or afternoon stroll.

Only a few doors over is the home of Mikhail Baryshnikov, who has his residence in a loft-type building with huge windows and heavy black iron gates shielding the front entrance, at 35 East 12th Street.²¹ Misha, as he's known to colleagues, is not only one of the greatest ballet dancers ever but has proven capable as an actor, too. He appeared in the hit movie The Turning Point (1977) and costarred with Gregory Hines in White Nights (1985). Our journey now takes us south on Uni-versity Place to Tenth Street. Turn right there and walk two blocks, crossing Avenue of the Americas.

Between 6th and Greenwich avenues, off West 10th Street, in a picturesque alley filled with charming town houses, is the former home of one of our century's great poets, e. e. cummings. Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas were among the many other poets to visit this literary ge-nius at 4 Patchin Place,²²where he lived until his death in 1962.

Our next stop is the home of singer and musician

Joe Jackson, 134 West 13th Street.²³ Back to the Avenue of the Americas, three blocks north, and a left turn onto 13th Street will take us there. This ultimate music man can sing and play almost any instrument, including piano, saxophone, and guitar.

A cab is not necessary for traveling the few blocks to the doorman building at 61 Jane Street.²⁴ Just head west on 13th Street to Hudson Street and continue south to the comer of Jane Street. This structure is home to the actor whose starring role helped make TV sitcom "Taxi" a five-year phenomenon- the Emmy and Tony Award-winning Judd Hirsch.

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the Hudson River at 377 West 11th Street.²⁸ Gregory's danc-ing ability, combined with his flair for acting, makes for a very versatile showman. Now walk east on 11th Street three blocks to the corner of Hudson Street.

Michael J. Fox is one of the many celebrities who enjoy reliving the tradition of hanging out in the White Horse Tav-ern, 567 Hudson Street (212-243-9260). Literary lions Nor-man Mailer, e. e. cummings, Thomas Wolfe, and Dylan Thomas anointed this historic bar as their gathering place. Dylan Thomas is said to have downed eighteen double whis-keys in the tavern on the very day he died of alcohol poisoning.

A healthier writer, playwright Terrance McNally, resides a few blocks south, at 218 West 10th Street,²⁹ in a tan brick building with a firescape out front. His home is easily reached by heading three blocks south on Hudson Street and then east on Tenth Street toward Bleecker Street.

A twenty-minute walk south on Bleecker Street or a four-dollar cab ride will bring you to the home of movie actor Vincent Spano at 184 Thompson Street.³⁰ His complex is on the corner of Thompson and Bleecker streets, in one of the most hectic areas of the Village.

Walk one block east on Bleecker Street to West Broadway and turn right. Head south, crossing West Houston, four blocks to Broome Street. In this area full of trendy art galleries, known as SoHo (short for South of Houston), is the Cupping Room Cafe, 359 West Broadway, (212-925-2898) a hidden gem for stargazers. Liza Minnelli, Cindy Crawford, and Rich-ard Gere, Madonna, and Robert DeNiro enjoy the homey surroundings and the casual atmosphere of this warm and com-fortable restaurant. John Kennedy, Jr., Willem Dafoe, and Matthew Broderick visit this reasonably priced eatery almost daily. The best time to stop in is weekdays, when there are no lines.

West on Broome Street to the Avenue of the Americas, north three blocks, and half a block west on King Street brings you to the next stop. Actress Ally Sheedy resides at 41 King Street³¹ in an attractively remodeled town house. Ally was born in New York, as was actress and building mate Amanda Plummer, who grew up on nearby Bank Street. Tony Award-

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winning Amanda carries on a great Broadway tradition in-herited from famous father, Christopher Plummer and her mother Tammy Grimes.

Continue west on King Street to Varick Street, turn left, stroll five blocks to Watts Street, and turn right. Three blocks past Canal Street, you come to Washington Street. Actress, singer, and person-ality Bette Midler has her home in a classically elegant building, erected in 1891, at 451 Washington

Street.³² This amazing extrovert is an avid reader who has filled her spacious residence with an array of literary master-pieces. Bette worked as a go-go dancer and a typist before her mentor, Joe Franklin, helped her get a job in the chorus of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. The next stop was New York's Continental Baths, where the Divine Miss M's campy singing was a smash hit with the crowd of gay men in towels.

Witty talk-show host David Letterman has his Manhattan residence in a simple building at 20 North Moore Street.³³ His home is in Tribeca, the very trendy area where casualness is the rule. From Bette Midler's his home is reached by heading east one block to Greenwich Street. There, turn right, walk south six blocks to North Moore Street, turn left, and proceed a block east, just past Hudson Street.

Down the block from Dave is Hook and Ladder Firehouse 8, located at 14 North Moore Street.³⁴ You might recall the roof being blown off this building in the film Ghostbusters (1984). The quiet streets of Tribeca are also home to Robert De Niro, one of the most brilliant actors ever to hit the silver screen. This powerful two-time Academy Award-winning per-former resides within blocks of his childhood home on Man-hattan's Lower East Side. He presently lives in the classic stone-columned building at 110 Hudson Street.³⁵ It's easily

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One ten Hudson Street is also home to Robert's longtime pal Harvey Keitel. Both actors were fortunate to study acting for the theater under teaching legend Stella Adier. They also appeared together in two films by Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976). Harvey, although separated from his attractive wife, actress Lorraine Bracco, still shares the same residence. Lorraine now has also worked with De Niro in a Scorsese picture: She played Ray Liotta's wife in the 1990 gangster epic Good Fellas. We next walk one block west on Franklin Street to the corner of Greenwich Street.

Actor Robert De Niro plays the role of entrepreneur at 375 Greenwich Street. There, in a multistory warehouse, he opened the trendy celebrity hangout Tribeca Grill (212-941-3900) with coowners Bill Murray, Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Even though this large brick burger stand is usually packed with stars, the rule of the house is that all customers are treated equally. The same struc-ture also features the Tribeca Film Center, which houses offices and studios devoted to film production. Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, and Quincy Jones all have facilities in De Niro's visionary complex.

Heading back east on Franklin Street two blocks to West Broadway, turning left, and walking one block north en route to our next destination, we pass LeRoy's, 247 West Broadway, (212-966-3370) a clean, inex-pensive diner where you might want to use the rest room, make a phone call, or have a quick bite. Area residents in-cluding Cyndi Lauper and Robert De Niro like to stop in for the eggs. One recent mom-ing, John Kennedy, Jr., didn't seem to mind signing auto-graphs for two excited young ladies before attacking his eggs-over-easy.

After breakfast, Cyndi Lau-per crosses the street to her home in the luxurious Ameri-can Thread Building, 260 West

NEW YORK'S TOP TENS

FANS' FAVORITE STARS
Madonna	1 West 64th Street
Barbra Streisand	320 Central Park West
Liza Minnelli	150 East 69th Street
Woody Allen	930 5th Avenue
Cher	14 East 4th Street
Bill Cosby	18 East 71st Street
Tom Cruise	14 East 4th Street
Richard Gere	26 East 10th Street
Diana Ross	781 5th Avenue
Frank Sinatra	100 East 50th Street

STAR-STUDDED BUILDINGS
Dakota	1 West 72nd Street
Trump Tower	721 5th Avenue
San Remo	145-146 Central Park West
The Langham	135 Central Park West
Waldorf-Astoria Towers	100 East 50th Street
Hotel des Artistes	1 West 67th Street
The Beresford	211 Central Park West
The Eldorado	300 Central Park West
American Thread Building	260 West Broadway
Silk Building	14 East 4th Street

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STARS' FAVORITE RESTAURANTS
Russian Tea Room	150 West 57th Street	265-0947
Le Cirque	58 East 65th Street	794-9292
Elaine's	1702 2nd Avenue	534-8103
Cafe Tabac	232 East 9th Street	674-7072
Tribeca Grill	375 Greenwich Street	941-3900
Carnegie Deli	857 7th Avenue	757-2245
Trattoria dell'Arte	900 7th Avenue	245-9800
The Four Seasons	99 Ease 52nd Street	754-9494
Rainbow Room	30 Rockefeller Plaza	632-5000
"21" Club	21 West 52nd Street	582-7200

MOVIE LOCATIONS
Central Park	Home Alone 2, The Prince of
	Tides, Marathon Man, Annie
	Hall, Still of the Night
Plaza Hotel	Big Business, Network, The Rose,
	Funny Girl, Plaza. Suite, Home
	Alone 2, The Pickle, The Way
	We Were, North by Northwest,
	The Great Gatsby, Arthur, The
	Cotton Club, Crocodile Dundee
Radio City Music Hall	The Godfather, Radio Days,
	Annie Hall
Empire State Building	King Kong, On the Town, An
	Affair to Remember, Love Affair.
Statue of Liberty	Superman, Funny Girl, On the
	Town, Ghostbusters 11
Lincoln Center	The Turning Point, Ghostbusters,
	Moonstruck, The Producers
Russian Tea Room	Manhattan, Tootsie, The Turning
	Point.
The Dakota	Rosemary's Baby, House of
	Strangers
Grand Central Terminal	The Prince of Tides. The Cotton
	Club, North by Northwest
Cafe des Artistes	The Money Pit, My Dinner with
	Andre

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STARS' FAVORITE BEAUTY SALONS
Elizabeth Arden	691 5th Avenue	832-3225
Clients include:	Lauren Bacall,
	Jacqueline Onassis,
	Kathleen Turner,
	Andie MacDowell
La Coupe	694 Madison Avenue	371-9230
Clients include:	Glenn Close,
	Carolyn Roehm,
	Dustin Hoffman,
	Mary Tyier Moore
Frederic Fekkai	754 5th Avenue	753-9500
Clients include:	Sigourney Weaver,
	Cindy Crawford,
	Meryl Streep
Kenneth Beauty Salon	Waldorf-Astoria	752-1800
Clients include:	Joan Rivers,
	Angie Dickinson
Georgette Klinger	501 Madison Avenue	848-3200
Clients include:	Liza Minnelli,
	James Woods
11 Makiage	107 East 60th Street	371-3992
Clients include:	Diana Ross,
	Raquel Welch,
	Sly Stallone
Bruno Pittini	746 Madison Avenue	517-9660
Clients include:	Catherine Deneuve
	Eric Clapton
Pierre Michel Coiffeur	Trump Tower	753-3995
Clients include:	Bernadette Peters,
	Lily Tomlin,
	Tina Sinatra,
	Margaux Heming-
	way
Saks Fifth Avenue Salon	666 5th Avenue	940-4000
Clients include:	Sally Jessy Raphael
	Regis Philbin
Vidal Sassoon	767 5th Avenue	535-9200
Clients include:	Leslie Uggams,
	Cyndi Lauper,
	Cher

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STARS' FAVORITE NIGHT SPOTS
Tatou "44"	151 East 50th Street Royalton Hotel (44 West 44th Street)	753-1144
Tatou "44"	151 East 50th Street Royalton Hotel (44 West 44th Street)	944-8844
Limelight	47 West 20th Street	807-7850
Palladium	126 East 14th Street	473-7171
Coffee Shop	29 Union Square West	243-7969
Au-Bar	41 East 58th Street	308-9455
Le Bar Bat	311 West 57th Street	307-7228
China Club	2130 Broadway	877-1166
Elaine's	1703 2nd Avenue	534-8103
Whiskey Bar	Paramount Hotel (235 West 46th Street)	819-0404

SEND YOUR REGARDS

Send a note of thanks, encouragement, or a simple hello to your favorite celebrity. The map below contains zip codes that divide up the city. Find the box that corresponds to the address of your particular star. Enclosing a stamped self-addressed en-velope may spur a quicker, more positive response to your letter.

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Send postcard to:

Live Tickets P.O. Box 777 Ansonia Station New York, NY 10023-0777

For standby:

Be at 67 Columbus Avenue at

8:00 A. M.

"Maury Povich Show"

Send postcard to:

221 West 26th Street New York, NY 10001 Or Call 989-3622

"Montel Williams Show"

Send Postcard to:

1481 Broadway New York, NY 10036 Or caii 840-1700

"The Richard Bey Show"

(WWOR, TV 9) Call 201-392-8499

"Sally Jessy Raphael Show"

Send postcard to:

Sally Tickets P.O. Box 1400 Radio City Station New York, NY 10101 Or call 582-1722

"Saturday Night Live"

Send postcard to:

SNL Tickets NBC Tickets 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10102

For standby-Be at 30 Rockefeller Plaza at 9:00 A.M. Saturday to receive tickets for the 11:30 P.M. show that night

Steampipe Alley

(WWOR, TV 9) Call 201-330-2485

PERFORMANCE HALLS

Carnegie Hall	145 West 57th Street	247-7800
City Center	131 West 55th Street	246-8989
Joyce Theater	175 5th Avenue	242-0800
Lincoln Center	140 West 65th Street	307-7171
Alice Tully Hall		875-5050
Avery Fisher Hall		875-5030
Metropolitan Opera House		362-6000
New York State Theater		870-5700
Vivian Beaumont Theater		362-7600
Madison Square Garden	7th Avenue at 33rd	568-8300
	Street
Radio City Music Hall	Avenue of the	757-3100
	Americas at 50th
	Street

HALF-PRICE THEATER TICKETS

Lower Manhattan Theater Center

Two World Trade Center, mezzanine level Monday-Saturday: 11:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (Off-Broadway tickets sold 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

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TKTS Booth

Duffy Square, 47th Street and Broadway

Open daily, 3:00 p.M.-8:00 p.m.

Music and Dance Booth

Bryant Park, 42nd Street and Avenue of the Americas

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: Noon-2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Wednesday-Saturday: 11:00 A.M.-2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.M.-7:00 p.m.

Sunday: Noon-6:00 p.m.

THEATERS
Ambassador	219 West 49th Street	239-6200
Belasco	111 West 44th Street	239-6200
Booth	222 West 45th Street	239-6200
Broadhurst	234 West 44th Street	239-6200
Broadway	Broadway at 53rd Street	239-6200
Brooks Atkinson	256 West 47th Street	719-4099
Circle in the Square	1633 Broadway	239-6200
Cort	138 West 48th Street	239-6200
Edison	240 West 47th Street	302-2302
Ethel Barrymore	243 West 47th Street	239-6200
Eugene O'Neill	230 West 49th Street	246-0220
Gershwin	51st Street off Broadway	586-6510 :
Helen Hayes	240 West 44th Street	944-9450
Imperial	249 West 45th Street	239-6200
John Golden	252 West 45th Street	239-6200
Longacre	220 West 48th Street	239-6200
Lunt-Fontanne	205 West 46th Street	575-9200
Lyceum	149 West 45th Street	239-6200
Majestic	247 West 44th Street	239-6200
Mark Hellinger	51st Street at Broadway	757-7064 j
Marquis	1535 Broadway	384-0100
Martin Beck	302 West 45th Street	246-6363
Minskoff	200 West 45th Street	869-0550
Music Box	239 West 45th Street	239-6200
Nederlander	208 West 41st Street	921-8000
Neil Simon	250 West 52nd Street	757-8646
Palace	1564 Broadway	757-2626
Plymouth	236 West 45th Street	239-6200
Royale	242 West 45th Street	239-6200
St. James	246 West 44th Street	398-0280
Shubert	225 West 44th Street	239-6200
Virginia	245 West 52nd Street	977-9370
Winter Garden	1634 Broadway	239-6200

INDEX

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Abbott, George, 49

Adler, Stella, 116, 125-126

Allen, Karen, 133, 135

Allen, Peter, 7, 9-10

Allen, Woody, 2, 23, 37, 53, 70, 71, 86-87, 109, 115, 119, 130, 149,

Altman, Robert, 97, 103

Anka, Paul, 77, 81

Applegate, Christina, 129

Arlen, Harold, 27, 39

Amaz, Lucie, 7, 16

Arnold, Roseanne, 110

Ashford and Simpson, 27, 41

Ashley, Elizabeth, 78, 95

Asimov, Isaac, 25, 30

Asner, Ed, 25, 30

Astaire, Fred, 26, 35, 49

Austin, Patti, 77, 84

Avedon, Richard, 12, 116, 131

Bacall, Lauren, 23, 26, 36, 72, 86, 119, 151

Bacon, Kevin, 8, 18, 20, 126

Baldwin, Alec, 16, 18, 109

Baldwin, Billy, 75, 119

Ballard, Kaye, 98, 110

Balsam, Martin, 26, 34

Bancroft, Anne, 116, 126

Bankhead, Tallulah, 74

Barrie, Barbara, 8, 21

Barrows, Sydney Biddle, 66

Barrymore, John, 58, 71

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1, 29, 33, 134, 142, 147

Basinger, Kirn, 16, 109

Bass, Anne, 68, 111, 115, 121

Bast, William, 74

Beatty, Warren, 57, 62, 72, 130

Belafonte, Harry, 27, 40, 66

Bening, Annette, 57, 62

Bennett, Tony, 58, 72

Bergen, Candice, 58, 65-66, 68, 70, 105

Bergman, Ingrid, 57, 64

Berle, Milton, 2, 26, 35

Bernstein, Leonard, 26, 36, 58, 71, 127

Beutel, Bill, 116, 127

Bisset, Jacqueline, 25, 27-28

Blaine, Vivian, 78, 94

Blass, Bill, 78, 83, 89

Bogart, Humphrey, 78, 91

Boggs, Bill, 58, 66

Bogosian, Eric, 133, 138

Bostwick, Barry, 133, 135 Bowie, David, 64-65, 123

Boy George, 7, 12

Bracco, Lorraine, 134, 147

Bradley, Ed, 8, 17

Brando, Marion, 27, 41, 58, 71, 97, 104, 121

Branigan, Laura, 77, 84

Brenner, David, 98, 112

Breslin, Jimmy, 25, 32

Brice, Fanny, 98, 107

Brinkley, Christie, 3, 57, 63, 119

Broderick, Matthew, 103, 133, 139, 144

Bronson, Charles, 101

Brooks, Mel, 116, 118, 125, 126

Browkaw, Tom, 115, 124

Brown, Blair, 44, 54

Brown, David, 14

Brown, Helen Gurley, 7, 14

Bruno, Pittini, 152

Buckley, William F., 115, 118

Bumett, Carol, 58, 67

Bums, George, 16, 57, 64

Burroughs, William, 44, 54

Busey, Gary, 33

Caan, James, 14

Cagney, James, 116, 130-131

Cahn, Sammy, 98, 110

Caine, Michael, 83

Cantrell, Lana, 98, 109

160

Capote, Truman, 78, 92

Cardin, Pierre, 97, 104

Carradine, Keith, 48

Carroll, Diahann, 8, 20

Carson, Johnny, 77, 81

Caruso, Enrico, 27, 40

Cash, Mrs. Johnny, 69

Cass, Peggy, 98, 112

Cates, Phoebe, 25, 30

Cavett, Dick, 115, 124

Chamberlain, Richard, 78, 91

Channing, Carol, 70, 97, 103

Channing, Stockard, 116, 127

Chase, Chevy, 130

Cher, 3, 51, 68, 113, 133, 136, 149, 152

Child, Julia, 110

Christy, Howard Chandler, 31-32

Chung, Connie, 26, 36

Cimino, Michael, 78, 92

Clapton, Eric, 78, 88, 152

Clark, Dick, 77, 81

Clark, Mary Higgins, 58, 65

Clarke, Arthur, 44, 54

Clayburgh, Jill, 8, 21

Clooney, Rosemary, 26, 36

Close, Glenn, 86, 115, 122, 151

Coca, Imogene, 98, 110

Cocker, Joe, 116, 130

Cohn, Sam, 60

Colbert, Claudette, 115, 121

Collins, Phil, 78, 88, 107, 123

Columbus, Christopher, 27, 40

Connick, Harry, Jr., 51, 133, 137-138

Connors, Jimmy, 113

Cooper, Al, 49

Copeland, Joan, 26, 33

Coppola, Francis Ford, 97, 100-101

Cosby, Bill, 2-3, 53, 71, 98, 108, 113, 149

Cosell, Howard, 98, 108, 109

Costello, Frank, 26, 35

Coward, Noel, 25, 31, 78, 904

Cramer, Douglas, 66

Crawford, Cindy, 86, 133-134, 141, 144, 148, 151

Crawford, Joan, 90, 98, 105, 108

Crisp, Quenrin, 133, 135-136

Cronkite, Walter, 116, 130

Cronyn, Hume, 58, 67

Crosby, Bing, 57, 64

Cruise, Tom, I, 33, 133, 137, 149

Culkin, Macaulay, 60, 80

cummings, e. e., 134, 142, 144

Currin, Jane, 134, 142

Dafoe, Willem, 144

Dahl, Arlene, 98, 109

Damone, Vic, 8, 20

Dangerfield, Rodney, 2, 116, 131

Danilova, Alexandra, 58, 68

David, Hal, 59, 72

Davies, Marion, 78, 87

Davis, Miles, 8, 17, 41

Davis, Sammy, Jr., 102

Day, Lee, 39

Dean, James, 25, 32, 65, 74

DeHaven, Gloria, 25, 32

de la Renta Oscar, 83, 98, 108

De Laurentiis, Dino, 58, 65

Delmonico's, 103

DeLorean, John, 97, 106

Dempsey, Jack, 27, 39

Deneuve, Catherine, 118, 152

De Niro, Robert, 3, 5, 33, 51, 134, 140, 144, 145-147

De Palma, Brian, 133, 139

Depp,Johnny, 49

Dickinson, Angie, 86, 124, 151

Didion, Joan, 58, 67

Dietrich, Marlene, 77, 82

Diller, Barry, 83

Diller, Phyllis, 65

Dillon, Matt, 3, 51, 133, 140-141

Domingo, Placido, 57, 64

Donahue, Phil, 2, 97, 107

Douglas, Diandra, 27, 39

Douglas, Eric, 43, 52

Douglas, Michael, 4, 27, 39-40, 66, 70

Downey, Morton, Jr., 57, 62

Dreyfuss, Richard, 7, 15

Dullea, Keir, 26, 39

Dunaway, Faye, 8, 19, 140

Duncan, Isadora, 26, 35, 58, 71

Duncan, Sandy, 124

Durante, Jimmy, 102

Duvall, Robert, 8, 20, 49

Dylan, Bob, 49, 54

Early, Candace, 26, 33

Elias, Jonathan, 133, 137

Engel, Georgia, 43, 47

Evert, Chris, 113

Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr., 74

Farrow, Mia, 26, 34, 37

Fawcett, Farrah, 130

Fierstein, Harvey, 8, 21

Fisher, Eddie, 116, 129

Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 115,

122-123

Flack, Roberta, 26, 36, 66

Fontaine, Joan, 98, 109

Ford, Charlotte, 78, 90

Forman, Milos, 57, 64

Fox, Michael J., 1, 3, 5, 8, 18,

106, 144

Frakes, Johnathan, 26, 33

Francis, Arlene, 77, 87

Francis, Jeannie, 26, 33

Frederic Fekkai, 151

Friday, Nancy, 7, 10

Fulton, Eileen, 43, 46

Gabriel, John, 58, 68

Gam, Rita, 58, 67

Garbo, Greta, 12, 77-79, 87, 90-91

Gardner, Ava, 57, 64

Garfunkel, Art, 115, 122-124

Garr, Teri, 7, 12

Gazzara, Ben, 115, 123-124

Geffen, David, 97, 101

Gere, Richard, 86, 133, 141, 144, 149

Getty, Ann, 97, 105

Gibson, Debbie, 44

Gifford, Kathie Lee and Frank, 78,89

Gilbert, Rod, 129

Gish, Lillian, 78, 89

Godunov, Alexander, 25, 28

Goodman, Benny, 98, 110

Gore, Leslie, 116, 131

Gould, Elliott, 19

Grable, Betty, 57, 64

Graf, Stem, 134, 148

Graham, Virginia, 69, 98, 110

Granger, Parley, 26, 34

Gray, Linda, 113

Green, Adolph, 7, 14

Grey, Jennifer, 134, 143

Grey, Joel, 25, 31

Griffith, Melanie, 10, 25, 30, 119

Grimes, Tammy, 115, 119

Grodin, Charles, 8, 20, 115, 122

Guccione, Bob, 97, 106

Gumbel, Greg, 43, 47

Hackman, Gene, 43, 45-46, 65, 129

Hagen, Uta, 133, 139

Hagman, Larry, 57, 62, 113

Hall, Jerry, 22

Hamill, Mark, 7, 15

Hamlisch, Marvin, 115, 125

Hannah, Daryl, 26, 33, 103

Harris, Richard, 97, 103

Harrison, Rex, 77, 78, 82, 91

Harry, Jackee, 8, 16

Harry Stewart's, 68

Harry Winston, 82-83

Hart, Kitty Carlisle, 97, 105

Hawn, Goldie, 71, 103

Hayworth, Rita, 27, 39

Heard, John, 58, 72

Hearst, William Randolph, 77, 87

Heffeman, John, 133, 139

Helmsley, Leona and Harry, 57, 61

Hemingway, Ernest, 77, 82, 104

Hemingway, Margaux, 8, 20, 82, 152

Hemingway, Mariel, 124

Henry, Buck, 78, 88

Henry Hudson Hotel, 47

Hepburn, Audrey, 101

Hepbum, Katharine, 1-2, 78, 92-93

Hemandez, Keith, 58, 65

Hershey, Barbara, 8, 17

Hewett, Christopher, 43, 47

Hewitt, Don, 58, 65

Hildegarde, 93

Hines, Gregory, 134, 143-144

Hirsch, Judd, 134, 142

Hite, Shere, 97, 105

Hoffman, Dustin, 1, 3-4, 26, 38, 70, 83, 103, 151

Holbrook, Hal, 43, 47

Holliday, Judy, 26, 36

Holrne, Celeste, 26, 33

Home, Lena, 102, 115, 119

Hotel des Artistes, 31, 149

Hoty, Dee, 43, 48

Hudson, Rock, 7, 14

Hughes, Bamard, 8, 20

Hurt, William, 17

Hutton, Lauren, 133, 139

Idol, Billy, 77, 86

Irving, John, 97, 103

Jackson, La Toya, 57, 62, 88

Jackson, Joe, 134, 142

Jacobi, Lou, 58, 66

Jaffe, Rona, 98, 112

Jagger, Mick, 1, 8, 11, 21-22, 107

Janowitz, Tama, 27, 41

Jarriel, Tom, 84

Jennings, Peter, 2, 7, 13-14

Joel, Billy, I, 11, 30, 57, 63, 88, 107

John, Eiton, 83-84, 88

Johnson, Don, 25, 30, 119

Johnson, Van, 78, 90

Jones, Grace, 134, 143

Jones, James Earl, 27, 41

Jones, Mick, 27, 39

Jones, Quincy, 147

Jones, Tom, 101

Jong, Erica, 116, 129

Jordan, Will, 43, 47

Julia, Raul, 8, 20

Kahn, Madeline, 115, 125

Karloff, Boris, 26, 36, 40

Kaufman, George S., 26, 35, 74, 128

Kaye, Danny, 97, 100-101

Keaton, Diane, 26, 29, 37, 38, 130

Keillor, Garrison, 8, 19

Keitel, Harvey, 134, 147

Kelly, Grace, 98, 105, 110

Kennedy, Caroline, 115, 124

Kennedy, Jackie. see Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, John, Jr., 8, 17, 33, 118, 144, 147, 148

Khan, Yasmin, 8, 17

Khashoggi, Adnan, 77, 79, 84

Kidman, Nicole, 133, 137

King, Alan, 70

King, Billy Jean, 7, 12

Kinski, Nascassia, 7, 12

Kirkland, Gelsey, 115, 121
Kirkland, Sally, 65, 116, 126

Kissinger, Henry, 78, 83, 91

Klein, Calvin, 25, 30, 111

Kline, Kevin, 25, 30, 33

Koch, Ed, 133, 139

Kosinski, Jerzy, 58, 68

Kravis, Henry, 97, 106

Kurtz, Swoosie, 8, 20

Lahti, Christine, 7, 15

Laine, Cleo, 7, 12

Lansbury, Angela, 43, 52

Lansky, Meyer, 7, 14, 26, 35

Lasser, Louise, 98, 109

Lauper, Cyndi, 49, 66, 134, 147-148, 152

Lauren, Ralph, 116, 128

Lavin, Linda, 8, 16

Leachman, Cloris, 105

Lear, Norman, 66, 77, 87

Lee, Spike, 51, 53

Leetch, Brian, 33

Lennon, John, 26, 36

Lennon, Sean, 26, 36

LeCterman, David, 3, 50, 134, 145

Levine, Ira, 116, 127

Levine, James, 26, 38

Lewis, Jerry, 102, 106

Lewis, Joe E., 102

Liebowitz, Fran, 58, 71

Lilly, Doris, 98, 108

Limbaugh, Rush, 48

LoBianco, Tony, 8-9, 22

Loren, Sophia, 2, 77, 80-81, 86

Loudon, Dororthy, 26, 35

Lowe, Rob, 53, 133, 136-137

Lowenberg, Dr. Marc G., 66

Loy, Myma, 98, 113

Luciano, Lucky, 26, 35

Luckinbill, Laurence, 7, 16

Lyons, Jeffrey, 58, 71

McCarthy, Andrew, 134, 143

MacDowell, Andie, 151

McEnroe, John, 2, 7, 13, 53

McGavin, Darren, 78, 87

McGillis, Kelly, 78, 95

McGovem, Elizabeth, 129

McGovem, Maureen, 43, 53

McLeod, Gavin, 116, 126

MacLaine, Shirley, 49, 78, 91, 130

McNally, Terrence, 134, 144

163

MacPherson, Elle, 97, 103

Madden, John, 26, 36

Madonna, 1, 3-5, 11, 25, 29, 51, 75, 88, 95, 144. 149

Mailer, Norman, 144

Malle, Louis, 58, 65

Manilow, Barry, 27, 39

Mansfield, Jayne, 98, 107

Mantle, Mickey, 2, 61

Marsalis, Wynton, 78, 94-95

Marshall, Penny, 8, 21

Martin, Dean, 102

Martin, Steve, 10, 27, 39

Mason, Jackie, 78, 94, 110-111

Mason, Marsha, 15, 25, 30

Max, Peter, 16

May, Elaine, 26, 39

Mayfair Coffee Shop, 106

Mayo, Virginia, 43, 47

Mead, Margaret, 7, 14

Meade, Julia, 116, 125

Meara, Anne, 8, 21

Meisner, Stanford, 14, 38

Merman, Ethel, 25, 29

Merrick, David, 125

Merrill, Dina, 78, 92

Messier, Mark, 33

Midler, Betfe, 1, 123, 134, 145

Miles, Sylvia, 58, 66

Miller, Ann, 49

Miller, Arthur, 44, 54, 89, 98,110

Minnelli, Liza, I, 10, 98, 105,107-108,112, 144, 149,152

Monroe, Earl "the Pearl," 8,16-17

Monroe, Marilyn, 77, 78, 85,89-90

Moore, Demi, 26, 38, 88, 109

Moore, Mary Tyier, 26, 39, 151

Moore, Melba, 58, 65

Moranis, Rick, 129

Moreno, Rita, 78, 93

Moriany, Michael, 58, 66-67

Mostel, Zero, 26, 35

Murphy, Eddie, 11, 74, 84, 86

Murray, Bill, 116, 128, 147

Myerson, Bess, 98, 108

Namath, Joe, 2, 78, 92

Nastase, Hie, 98, 107

Navratilova, Martina, 77, 81

Neiman, Leroy, 25, 31

Nelson, Judd, 78, 94

Newman, Mildred, 54

Newman, Paul, 58, 70, 116,118, 127-128

Newman, Phyllis, 7, 14

Nichols, Mike, 7, 14, 130

Nixon, Richard, 105

Nolte, Nick, 23

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1, 26, 36

Nye, Carrie. 115, 124

Oates, John, 58, 69

O'Connor, Carroll, 25, 32

O'Hara, Maureen, 78, 90

Oldman, Gary, 33

Onassis, Jacqueline, 17, 37, 69, 112, 116, 126, 130, 151

O'Neal, Patrick, 29

O'Neal, Ryan, 102

O'Neal, Tatum, 7, 13

O'Neill, Eugene, 44, 54

Ono, Yoko, 26, 36

Pacino, Al, 2-3, 43, 45-46,48, 102

Palmer, Charles, 103

Parker, Dorothy, 74, 115, 119

Parton, Dolly, 97, 103

Pauley, Jane, 7, 15

Pavarotti, Luciano, 2, 29, 57,63-64, 102

Peck, Gregory, 77, 85

Penn, Sean, 75, 147

Perkins, Anthony, 44, 53-54

Peters, Bernadette, 27, 41, 82,152

Philbin, Regis, 33, 115, 124,152

Picasso, Paloma, 116, 125

Plimpton, George, 116, 131

Plummer, Amanda, 134, 144-145

Plummer, Christopher, 66

Poindexter, Buster, 58, 67

Poitier, Sidney, 98, 110, 118

Poll, William, 118-119

Pollan, Tracy, 8, 18

Pons, Lily, 57, 64-65

Porter, Cole, 77, 85

Pound, Ezra, 142

Povich, Maury, 26, 36

Powell, Jane 43, 49

Preminger, Otto, 97, 105-106

Prince, 86

Quinn, Anthony, 53, 116, 130

Rahad, Ahmad, 53

Ramos, Victor, 133, 141

Randall, Tony, 7, 14, 110

Randolph, Joyce, 8, 17

Raphael, Sally Jessy, 69, 97, 105. 152

Rathbone, Basil, 27, 40

Reagan, Ronald and Nancy, 73

Redford, Robert, 115, 121-122

Redgrave, Lynn, 58, 71

Reed, Rex, 26, 36

Reeve, Christopher, 7, 11

Richards, Keith, 133, 137

Richardson, Natasha, 58, 67

Richter, Mike, 33

Riley, Pat, 33, 53

Ringwald, Molly, 9, 14

Rivers, Joan, 2, 4, 86, 97, 104, 106. 112, 151

Robbins, Tim, 133, 139

Roberts, Doris, 58, 65

Roberts, Julia, 51

Roberts, Tony, 125

Robertson, R. H., 94

Rockefeller, David, 77, 79, 87

Rockefeller, Nelson, 72

Rockwell, Norman, 25, 31

Roehm, Carolyn, 97, 106, 151

Rogers, Ginger, 49, 98, 113

Rollins, Howard, 7, 15

Rose, Billy, 51

Ross, Diana, 1, 17, 86, 97, 100, 111, 112, 130, 149, 152

Rossellini, Isabella, 86, 134, 148

Rossner, Judith, 27, 41

Roth, David Lee, 78, 94

Rothschild, Baron R. de, 97, 105

Russell, Nipsey, 43, 47

Russo, Gaetano, 45

Ruth, Babe, 8, 21

Ryder, Winona, 134, 148

Safer, Morley, 98, 110

Saint James, Susan, 77, 82

Sarandon, Susan, 133, 139

Savalas, Telly, 57, 64

Sawyer, Diane, 7, 13-14

Scavullo, Francesco, 98, 111

Scheider, Roy, 115, 118

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 3, 8, 16, 30, 69

Sciorra, Annabella, 33

Scognamilto, Joe and Rose, 48

Scorsese, Martin, 58, 70

Scott, George C., 121

Sedaka, Neil, 116, 125

Sedgwick, Kyra, 8, 20

Selleck, Tom, 121

Serendipity, 113

Shalit, Gene, 115, 124

Sheedy, Ally, 134, 144

Sheldon, Sidney, 127

Shelley, Carole, 43, 48

Shields, Brooke, 2, 4, 98, 111-112, 113, 129

Short, Bobby, 78, 89, 121

Shriver, Maria, 8, 16

Sills, Beverly, 2, 7-8, 14, 110

Simon, Carly, 11, 26, 37

Simon, Neil, 9, 14, 78, 87

Simon, Paul, 26, 32, 122-123

Simpson, O. J., 2, 57, 62

Sinatra, Frank, 48, 57, 64, 72, 77, 84-85, 102, 149

Sinatra, Tina, 82, 152

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 8, 21

Singer, Lori, 27, 41

Slater, Christian, 33, 127

Smith, Alexis, 25, 29

Smith, Liz, 83

Snipes, Wesley, 78, 94

Sondheim, Stephen, 78, 92-93

Sorvino, Paul and Vanessa, 15, 27, 34, 41

Spano, Vincent, 134, 144

Spector, Ronnie, 8, 20

Spielberg, Steven, 77, 81, 106, 147

Squire, Billy, 27, 39

Stallone, Sly, 69, 88, 152

Stapleton, Maureen, 26, 33

Stein, Linda, 88

Steinem, Gloria, 115, 118

Stem, Isaac, 7, 14

Stewart, Jimmy, 101

Stewan, Mary, 97, 106

Stiller, Jerry, 8, 21

Sting, 26, 32

Storch, Larry, 27, 40

Strasberg, Lee, 20, 26, 38

Strasberg, Susan, 26, 38

Stravinsky, Igor, 27, 40

Streep, Meryl, 7, 15, 151

Streisand, Barbra, 8, 19-20, 22-23, 113, 123, 149

Struthers, Sally, 65

Sullivan, Ed, 97, 103

Summer, Donna, 97, 105

Sutherland, Joan, 58, 69

Swanson, Gloria, 115, 118

Swayze, Patrick, 3, 111

Tandy, Jessica, 58, 67

Taylor, Elizabeth, 49, 72, 84, 107, 115, 117-118

Taylor, James, 27, 40

Tennant, Victoria, 27, 39

Thild Avenue Bagel, 129

Thomas, Dylan, 44, 54, 142, 144

Thomas, Marlo, 97, 107

Thomas, Richard, 25, 31

Tiegs, Cheryl, 112, 119

Tiny Tim, 26, 34

Tomlin, Lily, 83, 152

Tom, Rip, 43, 53

Tracy, Arthur, 43, 47

Tracy, Spencer, 77, 85

Travers, Mary, 58, 66, 72

Trevor, Claire, 65, 97, 102

Trudeau, Garry, 7, 15

Trump, Donald, 60-62, 77, 80, 104

Trump, Ivana, 68, 82-83, 104

Tune, Tommy, 116, 126

Turner, Kathleen, 11, 23, 49, 53, 75, 133, 140, 141, 151

Twain, Mark, 44, 54 Tyson, Cicely, 27, 41

Uggams, Leslie, 152 Ullmann, Liv, 7, 12

Valentino, 98, 108

Valentino, Rudolph, 25, 31

Vallee, Rudy, 57, 64

Vanderbilt, Gloria, 116, 130

Van Peebles, Melvin, 43, 48

Van Zandt, Steve, 43, 46

Verdon, Gwen, 25, 30

Vicious, Sid, 44, 54

Vidal Sassoon, 152

von Bulow, Claus, 115, 122

Vonnegut, Kurt, 5, 78, 93, 130

Walken, Christopher, 7, 12, 147

Walters, Barbara, 2, 115, 120

Warden, Jack, 43, 52

Warhol, Andy, 113, 119

Warrick, Ruth, 115, 124

Wasserstein, Wendy, 133, 139

Watts, Andre, 58, 71

Weaver, Sigoumey, 26, 34, 86, 151

Weber, Andrew Lloyd, 77, 82, 88

Weiss.Jay, 11, 49, 133, 141

Welch, Raquel, 58, 65, 152

Weld, Tuesday, 8, 19

Weller, Peter, 51

West, Mae, 27, 41

Westheimer, Ruth, 118

Weston, Jack, 26, 35

Wiest, Dianne, 8, 20

Williams, Robin, 9, 14, 30, 109

Willis, Bruce, 3, 26, 38, 69, 88

Wilson, Earl, 46

Winchell, Walter, 102

Winfrey, Oprah, 110

Winters, Shelley, 16, 26, 34, 110

Wolfe, Tom, 10, 98, 112, 144

Wonder, Stevie, I, 78, 94

Woods, James, 152

Woodward, Joanne, 69, 116, 126, 127-128

Worth, Irene, 43, 48

Wouk, Herman, 18 Wray, Fay, 77, 81-82

Young, Gig, 58, 71

Young, Sean, 51, 133, 138

Youngman, Henny, 2, 59, 71, 72

Zadora, Pia, 77, 81

Ziegfeld, Florenz, 27, 40

Zuckerman, Pinchas, 8, 19

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