The red carpet at the Booth Theatre in New York was sparkling with some of the world’s top ‘Twinklies’ last night. The debut of award-winning singer and actress Bette Midler, in the John Logan play of a Hollywood Agent Queen, Sue Mengers, ‘I’ll Eat You Last’.
I’ll Eat You Last, was written by playwright and screenwriter John Logan (SkyFall, Hugo). He was inspired from a dinner party he had attended where he met the famous Hollywood powerhouse agent, Sue Mengers, known as the ‘Bulldozer in a Caftan’.
In Sue’s era, 1970’s-1980’s, Hollywood was a social business. It was the Golden Era of Hollywood where the Gods and Goddesses of the screen were fueled by dinner parties, openings and cocaine.
Sue Mengers had risen from the depths of poverty in New York City, to ruling the roost in Hollywood. Some of Sue’s ‘Twinklies’, as she called them, were – Barbra Streisand, Candice Bergen, Michael Caine, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Nick Nolte, and Ali MacGraw.
Sue Mengers reign in Hollywood is first fractured by convincing good friend and client, Barbra Streisand, to star in Mengers’ husbands film, ‘All Night Long’, a megawatt flop. The plot of the play is Menger’s trying to get Streisand to answer her call so they can hash things out.
The second blow to Sue Menger’s career was really the changing identity of Hollywood itself. It went from a very personal interaction with artists and studios to an impersonal corporate world ruled by publicists and financiers.
John Logan’s intention was to emphasize the poignancy of a Queen whose reign had come to an end.
The play was produced by Vanity Fair Editor, Graydon Carter.
A few of the many stars in attendance include, Marlo Thomas and Martin Short, Susan Sarandon, Jim Parsons, Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, Glenn Close, Ellen Barkin and George C. Wolfe.
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