Bathers crowd around poolside as a man with long sideburns, doing a plausible Nat King Cole, sings "Mona Lisa."
Forget the tawny blondes recumbent at poolside.
About 20 waiters and cooks sent from Cairo arrived minutes after the 326-room hotel became Egyptian and filed into the poolside dining room to take instructions from their Israeli counterparts.
Not at all flustered by my failure to gatecrash the Oscars press conference, I repaired, at 10 am, to poolside at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Walt Disney Co. filmed commercials with the American swimmer at poolside right after he won the gold medal for the men's 100-meter freestyle.
Outdoors at poolside under a glittering night sky, Ms. Fairchild and Ms. Arquette chatted as the head of the Stallone clan, outspoken Jacqueline Stallone, swept through with her non-Rambo son, Frank.
Both books go down as easily as their wealthy characters' expertly mixed cocktails, and are ideally suited for light beach and poolside reading in this post-Boesky, post-greed summer.