Jeffrey Lyons shares stories from his father, Leonard Lyons, who wrote the famous newspaper column “The Lyons Den” from 1934 to 1974, and knew all the celebrities of the era—from Charlie Chaplin to Winston Churchill, from Ethel Barrymore to Sophia Loren, from George Burns to Ernest Hemingway, and from Joe DiMaggio to the Duke of Windsor. In Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from “The Lyons Den,” Jeffrey Lyons compiles anecdotes from his father’s best columns, and includes his own interviews with stars of today.
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Jeffrey Lyons
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Comments [4]
Ummm... blabbermouth???
"Penelope Cruz is the Sophia Loren of our generation"?! PA-LEEZE!
She needs to eat a little mortadella and make a decent film.
Ugh, so no enemies? "Once in awhile from a Press Agent" .... ROFL. If you're going to be a celebrity suck-up, you've got to eventually come across with the dirt. Boooooring made up stories from a glorified PR man.
I didn't know the cinematic review "The Lyons Den" that I knew on the radio years ago had a precedent in a father's newspaper column. I guess I'm not that old after all.
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