51. Romanoff's

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Done & Dunne has spent some time at Beverly Hills mainstay The Daisy, the exclusive club that Nick and Lenny were members of, and where Frank Sinatra once paid the maitre d’ to punch Dominick in the face. Years later, Nicole Brown Simpson was a hostess at The Daisy when she, very consequentially, met OJ Simpson.

But before The Daisy, another legendary establishment occupied the same address. Romanoff’s, a restaurant that served as the hangout for the stars who built Old Hollywood, was the contribution of flamboyant owner Michael Romanoff, a man who spun a tale about his own origin story and in the process, made himself a figure in the glitz and glamour of the place and the era.

Sources:

Spotlight on… Romanoff’s (martinturnbull.com) Longtime FVS Supporter and Former Board President Sam Goldwyn Jr. ’43 Passes Away (fvs.edu) Crashing the Party, with Mike Romanoff and Gloria Vanderbilt – Nick Harvill Libraries (nickharvilllibraries.com)

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	That's audible.co.uk slash wondery.
0:11.5	Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, all things Dominic Dunn,
0:18.4	where nothing is linear and everything is connected.
0:22.1	And this is the episode where so much of it connects.
0:27.2	Back in the first few episodes of this podcast, we touched on the swinging hot spot of the 60s
0:32.3	in Beverly Hills called The Daisy.
0:34.8	The Daisy was a super exclusive club that Nick and Lenny and a lot of other people
0:40.3	belong to. The Daisy is also the club where a young Nicole Brown is working as a hostess when she meets
0:47.5	O.J. Simpson. But long before the Daisy was the place, there was a legendary restaurant, a hangout for the stars, that operated
0:55.8	in the same location, but operating throughout the time of old Hollywood. This place is Romanoff's,
1:03.6	and its flamboyant owner Michael Romanoff has quite a storied history, not just his life, but
1:09.7	the life that takes place in Romanoffs for two
1:13.0	decades. And lucky for us, our man Dominic covered it all. It is this kind of piece from Dunn that
1:20.7	all of the groundwork that we have done in our podcast journey so far, I feel all comes together.
1:26.8	There are so many spider webs in this richly
1:30.4	detailed portrait. This is an example of Dunn's writing that to me is so delicious. It is in these
1:37.8	kind of pieces that you really get the synthesis of the world that he is writing about so effortlessly. Thank you, Dominic.
1:47.8	Before we get started today, though, I have a spy glass here, or I spy some names that I want to give
1:53.9	some thanks and praise to you. Melissa N. and Ted the cat. Holy cats, I am so delighted to welcome you both to the done-and-done Patreon community,
2:04.6	getting ad-free episodes and bonus content too.
2:08.1	Your support is appreciated, and I am so grateful to you and our entire Patreon community.
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