Celebrities, including Alec Baldwin, remember columnist Bobby Zare

Friends (and possibly an enemy or two) remembered super columnist Bobby Zare at Michael’s Monday night funeral, and loved ones remembered fondly of his friendliness, influence – and insolence.

Alec Baldwin, who said he would like to be at the party sent a note to be read. He remembered a time in the late 1980s when Zarem met him at Elaine’s famous haunt and offered to take care of his PR for a brain-shaking $ 30,000 a month, offering him “real peace” in return. Baldwin said he almost spat out the soup. “Isn’t that worth $ 30,000 a month?” Zarem asked him.

Baldwin said Zarem was “intelligent [and] mensch, all wrapped in an almost-Foghorn Leghorn Southern man. He added: “I have no doubts that at the moment he is offering God a fee of $ 30,000 a month to represent him.

Supermodel Christy Turlington remembered “falling in love with baseball” with Zarem when she met him on the Rainbow Room dance floor shortly after moving to New York and spent nights at opera and symphonies on his shoulder. She also said that he helped her transition from modeling to philanthropy, starting her path to one of her most significant works.

Meanwhile, gossipy legends Rush and Molloy paid tribute to his acid side by scrolling through a brilliant list of “people he hated.” There was one columnist among them who, while working for Zarem, was tasked with clipping his toenails, but: “He got tired of his toes and went out one night with his Roladex. Allegedly. “Another was famous gossip columnist Liz Smith.

Hollywood manager Jason Weinberg recalled that while he was working for Zarema right out of college, he did not make it to FedEx in time to deliver an important videotape from Memphis, Tennessee to the Entertainment Tonight office.

“I reach FedEx and it’s closed,” he said, “[Zarem] he talks to some people and he says, “done.” I ask, “What have you done?” He says, “I called the FedEx owner and asked them to send in an extra plane. So basically Fred Smith, who owns FedEx, gave Bobby a private plane for that one Betamax line.

Also there are: Ann Dexter Jones, Colin and Elizabeth Callender, actresses Patti D’Arbanville, Melissa Errico and Linda Janklow, Kim Garfunkel, Art’s wife, former Ranger Jeff Jackson, Patrick McEnroe, actor Andrea Boccaletti, Page Six vet Richard Johnson, journalist Roger Freidman, author of “Gatecrasher” Ben Widdicom, author of “We’re Not Like Them” Jo Piazza (with her uterine plus), producer Andrew Muscato and author Dana Thomas, among others.

The hosts were Bill Augustin, Elizabeth and Colin Callender, Jon Furay, Vic Garvey, Lisa Kaminsky, Joanna Molloy and George Rush, Bonnie Timmermann and Weinberg

Zarem died in his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, at the age of 84 in September 2021. He represented the A Listers litany and, along with designer Milton Glaser, was responsible for the famous “I Love New York” campaign.