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Tfavel 12 Section 11 Chicago Tribune, Sunday, June 20, 1982 r. 'Author' feeds on Apple's celebrity sites curiosity list, keep your eyes open to view them onscreen. Those who intend to observe them firsthand would be well-advised to bring plenty of cash or well-financed plastic money! However, getting there is still a bargain, costing a lot less than Pacino's taxi ride from Manhattan to picture-postcardlike Gloucester, in an effort to haul home his barracudalike wife. His memorable quote, "Don't go in the water give the sharks a break," is a line you will want to remember and reuse, for sure. "I was born in the South Bronx; so New York to is just one big block," said Pacuw, obviously very fond of his hometown.

He now lives in an Upper Barclay rents out its $300-a-night suites for only $99 on Friday and Saturday. The Barbizon Plaza at Central Park South is another find, including brunch, and even the Waldorf Astoria features some really good weekend rates. If you can go over the weekend when business executives have headed back to the home office, there are endless possibilities." WHAT ABOUT those theater tickets? Diners Fugazy suggests three possibilities: either contact the theater of your choice for direct purchase via charge card, contact a ticket broker Golden Le Blang Theater Tickets 207 W. 45th 212-757-2300, has been in business since 1894 and advertises itself as the "largest in the U.S.A." or wait and see what bargains await at the Hot Tix office. Two outlets here offer half-price tickets-on the day of performance Iplus a service charge, at Broadway and 47th-and at 100 Williams a few blocks'' north of Wall Street.

Only cash is accepted. "Twofers" two tickets for the price of one redeemable at the box office, often are available at hotel desks and at the New York Visitors and Convention reau, 2 Columbus Circle. Or you may" write Hit Shows, 303 W. 42d New-York, N.Y. 10036, enclosing a stamped' self-addressed envelope with your 2 A good travel agent can help you get-the most value for your dollar.

East Side apartment and considers himself part of the neighborhood. Although cameras roamed around town a good deal in this film, much attention is given to the theater district. DOES IT COST a fortune to put yourself in this picture? We made a zillion calls checking prices and got the best suggestion from Diners Fugazy Travel in Chicago, which we always have found to be both reliable and imaginative. "Some of the top prestige hotels turn out to be superbargains over weekends," we were told. "The business travelers have gone home, and they've got plenty of room at really attractive prices.

"The Inter-Continental formerly the PLACES AT DOWN iNEW YORK Playwrights and Broadway recently have been getting their share of attention: Michael Caine in "Deathtrap," Jack Lemmon as the publicity man In "Tribute" and now A Pacino struggling for the success of another hit Author! Author!" But, lest viewers think those lifestyles are one long round of glamorous, nonstop success, "Author! a 20th Century-Fox eomedy-drama, offers a more realistic, down-to-earth view. Pacino's life is in a shambles. His producer Alan King wants rewrites; his backers Bob and Ray are threatening to back out; find his much-married mate Tuesday Weld is about to leave him and leave him with four of her children from three previous marriages. Meanwhile, the Hollywood actress Dyan Cannon who has the female lead in his play wants to move n. I The harried husband-father-stepfather-playwright likes the simple life: health foods in his remodeled townhouse, jogging along the parkway, no bright lights pr doing the celebrity scene around town.

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Swains, ardent or otherwise, had to cool their heels in the lobby waiting for their women friends to emerge from those sacrosanct upper floors. Budding actresses, models incoming from Sioux Falls, S.D., secretaries from the sticks, all seeking fortune in Manhattan, found security in the female fortresses. Among the alumni of the Barbizon are Joan Crawford, Candice Bergen, Grace Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Ali and Cloris Leachman. Those were the separate-sex days. In the famed old Biltmore Hotel, girls met under the clock, but women who invaded the Men's Bar would set off loud I whistles and catcalls.

Finally the law forbade discrimination in saloons. The Biltmore Men's Bar accepted women and then, its charter despoiled, closed its doors. That other holdout, McSorley's Old Ale House, in a raunchy part of the city, survives on a coed basis. But why women want to travel to those neighborhoods for beer remains a drinking person's mys-Itery. NOW THE BASTION of the Barbizon Is letting down the ropes, too.

It Is being turned into a spiffy hotel in what, as it turns out, is a spiffy section of town. The old hotel, named for the Barbizon school of painting which was named for the, Parisian suburb of Barbizon, is a certified landmark. It cannot be torn down, so it is being cleaned up. When it emerges from a major facelift in a few months it will accept men guests. But and it is a big but it will be a hotel run by women where women from out-of-town, traveling alone, will be comfortable and safe.

"Most hotels are designed with men in Imind, David Teitelbaum, who speaks for the general partnership re-. vamping the Barbizon. "Just because you put a skirt hanger in a room doesn't mean you're catering to women." ATTITUDES were different in 1927 when the hotel opened. It functioned for more than 50 years, clinging to its Vic-' torian attitudes. It was a repository for 'undergrads from the Seven Sisters Colleges Vassar, Smith, Mt.

Holyoke, Wel-, lesley, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe and Barnard. It became, therefore, a great favorite with the men of Ivy League INT AN EJfflMVAGANCE. Movie "-n fan's guide LH By Jim and Shirley Higgins of New York's most glamorous sites. When he meets Cannon to sign her for the lead in his new play, the locale is the Plaza Hotel's prestigious Palm Court. champagne, everything! Couldn't you just die!" exclaimed the actress, glancing wide-eyed around the impressive room.

Visitors can hear the same violin music over cocktails from 5:30 to 11:30 p.m. Cannon soon tires of the quiet domesticity in this close-knit "family" and drags them off for an evening at Elaine's, a sort'of "in" celebrity center at 1703 2d at 88th Street. A guidebook writer we know categorizes it as expensive and shares the hero's reaction to the setting by describing it as "famous for everything but the food, more like a renovated saloon than a celebrity haunt, a club for the likes of Woody Allen and visiting Hollywood pretty faces." THE OPENING-NIGHT party is held among the caricature portraits lining the walls at Sardi's, another pricey celebrity center. So if any of those are on your colleges, which then only harbored male students. If there were any smooching, it was confined to the library.

Will that feature be retained? Teitelbaum says he hopes so. While the new version of the Barbizon will have a male manager, its marketing director, interior designer and design coordinator are all young women. By opening day it may even have a woman chef running the kitchen. The restaurants and a full-scale spa will cater to the guest traveling alone. A European-style bar will offer light foods.

No single woman need fear she is encroaching on a saloon with spittoons. Pink marble will soften the walls in the bar and lobby. ROOMS ARE BEING equipped with makeup lights, French handsoap from Le Gallet, bath foam and hand lotion. Scented candles and a daily flower will be placed in rooms. Hair dryers, curlers and pressing irons will be on call.

The old swimming pool, 20 by 60 feet, is being refashioned as the centerpiece for a full spa along the lines of the Golden Door and the Sonoma Mission Inn. Here it can be used by the hour, the weekend or the week. Hydroaerobic class, water volleyball and lap swimming will help keep the customers in shape. So will Body Design by Gilda, slated to move into snazzy new quarters inside the hotel. Gilda aside, there is a choice of Western massage Swedish or Eastern I Shiatsu where pressure is applied to specific places to redirect the flow of energy.

After a $20-million body rebuilding program, the Barbizon will open in the fall as a coed caravansary with special attention to the comforts of women. THOSE TREPID women who would come to New York but feel safer surrounded by females can seek quarters at the Martha Washington, 30 E. 30th St. It opened in 1903 as the first women's hotel in the United States, and with things going the way they are it may be the last. Named for the first first lady, the Martha Washington has 451 rooms, permits no men above the lobby and locks its front doors at midnight.

While it hires bellmen, male engineers and housemen, as well as some room clerks, it is managed by a woman. The Martha Washington may well be the last single-sex stronghold in the wicked city. Even New York's YMCAs now take women guests as residents. You've come a long way, baby. Field Newapaper Syndicate, in group of four.

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