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- <text id=94TT0005>
- <title>
- Jan. 10, 1994: Died:Irving "Swifty" Lazar
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jan. 10, 1994 Las Vegas:The New All-American City
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 15
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- <p> DIED. IRVING ("Swifty") LAZAR, 86, talent agent; in Beverly
- Hills, California. For decades a Hollywood cliche has been "Every
- good writer has two agents: his own and Swifty Lazar," and frequently
- the person making this observation was Lazar. He represented
- just about every well-known literary figure who worked in the
- movies--Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Noel Coward and
- Ernest Hemingway--as well as actors like Humphrey Bogart,
- who gave Lazar his nickname after the agent locked up five screen
- properties for Bogart on a single day in 1955. Lazar's annual
- Oscar-night party was scarcely less notable than the awards
- ceremony itself.
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- </body>
- </article>
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