Once upon a time, Hollywood stars like Johnny Carson and Phyllis Diller congregated at a restaurant named Derrick’s. The small Italian place opened in 1972 on the second floor of the Beverly Comstock Hotel in west Los Angeles.
During one of his final recent interviews, Richard Simmons–the man of the podcast hour–told the Sklar brothers that when he first came to L.A. from New Orleans, he saw an ad in The Hollywood Reporter for a Derrick’s Maitre D’.
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