Brown Derby is said to have proposed to Carole Lombard there. Rival gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper are recorded as regular patrons. In "L.A. at Last", the first of the Hollywood episodes of "I Love Lucy", Lucy (Lucille Ball), Ethel (Vivian Vance), and Fred (William Frawley) have lunch at the Brown Derby. During the misadventure, the trio dines in a booth with Eve Arden on one side and William Holden (who orders a Cobb Salad) on the other. This leads to the famous disaster scene in which Lucy inadvertently causes a waiter to hit Holden in the face with a
Richard Johnson (columnist) Richard Johnson (columnist) Richard Johnson is an American gossip columnist with the "New York Post"s Page Six column, which he edited for 25 years. Described by the "New York Times" as "a journalistic descendant of Walter Winchell", in 1994 he was ranked the #1 New York City gossip columnist by "New York" magazine in a list that also included Liz Smith, Michael Musto, and Cindy Adams. Johnson was raised in Greenwich Village, New York, the son of a magazine editor father and a mother who worked in public relations. He attended the University of Colorado, Boulder, and later Empire State