D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A favorite tunes. Marilyn Maye closed the evening with her amazing voice singing Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane’s “On A Clear Day” (“you can see forever...”). Barbara was with us every minute of the show. Family history. On a cloudy, cool, and mild winter’s morning here in New York, after some very light snowfall from the night before, I got an invitation by email that read: “Jane Fonda, Brooke Hayward, and Linda Fargo invite you to celebrate HAYWARD + HOPPER,” featuring a specially curated collection of jewelry, handbags, furniture, books, and art at
Bergdorf Goodman on the seventh floor. Brooke’s daughter, Marin Hopper, with her husband, John Goldstone, created the company Hayward + Hopper. Marin has a shop on the corner of 70th and Lexington. In it she sells her line of handbags and her father’s photographs, which are highly collectible, as well books of Dennis Hopper’s work. What interested me about the invitation was the Fonda and Hayward part. These two girls grew up together. Brooke’s mother, Margaret Sullavan, was married to Jane’s father, Henry Fonda, before she was married to
Brooke’s father, Leland Hayward. (Leland Hayward later married Pamela Churchill, who later married Harriman.) Both girls hit 80 last year, and as far as I can see, it’s still just a number for them. The two families were close in those early days. Both were in the business of Broadway and Hollywood. The Hayward family story is in Brooke’s best-selling memoir, Haywire, which was initially published in 1977, and later made into a television series. It took the “celebrity memoir” into classic American literature. Jane’s story is, of course, ongoing. Jane and Brooke
were also both living in Los Angeles when they were young women starting out. But I knew they have not seen each other for many years. I was surprised by this “reunion” because Brooke basically avoids public situations and she keeps her world small and close. Society, wealth, or fame do not impress her in the least. She’s had enough of all of it. However, a couple of weeks ago, Marin Hopper somehow had the idea of inviting Brooke and Jane to join her and her husband for a lunch at Sette Mezzo. During the lunch, Marin proposed that they host a
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