![]() ![]() In arrangement with the City, May 17th was made Nikki Haskell Day in LA.Įd Mady declaring May 17th “Nikki Haskell Day.” But when someone realized this girl-about-town had a big birthday coming up, things started to happen.Īt the Beverly Hills Hotel where Nikki’s been going since she was a teenager, Ed Mady, the regional director of West Coast USA and General Manager, suggested they have a small party marking Nikki’s big day in the Polo Salon of the hotel. In fact she’s got products and scripts that she’s working on. I’ve known her for about 30 years and to these eyes she doesn’t look any older. It changed the life of herself and her mother and brother financially but her mother was a practical optimist and they kept on “keepin’ on.” Nikki’s lived her life that way. Those interviews are popular these days on Amazon Prime. She was a pioneer on cable, interviewing all the characters she came upon and often got to know. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she was very much a part of the nighttime scene in New York including Studio 54. I don’t know if that was before or during her first and only marriage. She started out in the brokerage business. We call it Hollywood but it is the film version a neighborhood phenomenon. You have to know Hollywood to understand that but it’s the same as having someone in your neighborhood whose very presence describes the “community” she grew up and matured in. If you didn’t know, Nikki is an authentic Hollywood legend. The birthday girl celebrating with 80 candles at the Beverly Hills Hotel. It is a number that always seems far away in life until … Nikki told me she “always knew” she’d see 80 one day far away, but it turned into fifteen minutes later. At dinner last week she was telling me about her birthday: 80. Not that it was planned as such but … it became inevitable. ![]() For Nikki it was 17 weeks of stimulation, company, activity and as God provided it, good Palm Springs weather. They all “work,” all have projects, objectives, schedules. Nikki sees him often, even spent 17 weeks during the lockdown in Palm Springs as his guest - along with other members of his close associates. Davis, except for his reputation as eternal boy wonder in the music business. Last Thursday night I had dinner with Nikki Haskell who was in town briefly to attend a celebration hosted by her friend Clive Davis. So it was a perfect Sunday although fewer people out because of the heat. Here by the river the breezes keep things moving. Very sunny, warm day, yesterday in New York. ![]()
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