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Dv diana vreeland book5/21/2023 ![]() Now don’t you think Jack is just about the best actor we have? He’s got a convincing face, and that funny flare in his nostrils, hasn’t he? And there’s something else about him which is something all great actors have-he’s a great mimic. I was dining very late at San Lorenzo’s, in London, with David Bailey, the great photographer, and Jack Nicholson. Let me describe this night in the spring of 1978. Nostalgia-imagine! I don’t believe in anything before penicillin. He picked up a china plate and put it under his dinner jacket to protect his heart. “Listen, Swifty,” I said, “we all have our own ways of making a living, so shut up!” ![]() One night at dinner in Santo Domingo at the Oscar de la Rentas’, Swifty Lazar, the literary agent, turned to me and said, “The problem with you, dollface”-that’s what he always calls me-“is that your whole world is nostalgic.” Edited by George Plimpton and Christopher Hemphill ![]()
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