Beverly Hills has been vedddy-veddy good to Judy Mazel, who turned a ZIP code into cold, hard cash, first with the ”The Beverly Hills Diet,” and now with ”Beverly Hills Style,” which, she says, is all you need to get the best room at a hotel or a key table at a restaurant. Who has this special style? ”Diana Ross,” says Mazel. ”She came from nowhere and was pretty weird-looking. But in developing her sense of self, her features haven`t changed, but she`s beautiful.”
Baseball player Jay Johnstone expresses his opinions–usually outrageous
–about his fellow ball players in ”Temporary Insanity.” ”Consider the Penguin, Ron Cey,” he writes. ”The National League Green Book lists him at 5-feet-9, 185 lbs., but I believe he stands closer to 5-feet-7, with his weight evenly distributed between his muscles and his teeth.” About Fernando Valenzuela he writes, ”I always thought he would have been perfect as the Pillsbury Dough Boy, if only he could laugh in English.” Johnstone says the first time he met Moe Drabowsky, the relief pitcher dropped his cocktail glass to shake his hand. ”It shattered all over the floor and he didn`t blink an eye. I knew right away that this was my kind of guy.”
With everyone so hell-bent to achieve success, it`s nice to find someone who has built a museum to failure. Robert McMath`s Museum of New Products in Naples, N.Y., houses 5,000 examples of red-white-and-blue disasters. Here`s where you`ll find mayonnaise in a squeeze tube, a health snack of dates and liver called ”Gorilla Balls,” and ”Singles” gourmet food manufactured by Gerber Products, which looks alarmingly like adult baby food. Perhaps he is saving room on the shelf for the new Coke.
REPLAYS
”The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.” Don Marquis
”When you win, nothing hurts.” Joe Namath
”It`s not enough that I should succeed
–others should fail.” David Merrick
