The NEW Old Hollywood

Say "Old Hollywood" and people think of Gable and Lombard, moguls in oversize eyeglasses, Groucho and Jack Benny on the putting green, Spanish-roofed villas in Beverly Hills, cocktails at the Mocambo. Even today, there remain some vestiges of this world: the Paramount Pictures gates; the booths at Nate 'n Al's deli; Army Archerd.

But with the last of the old-style power brokers, Lew Wasserman and Ray Stark, having passed on in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and with the maverick boomers of the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls generation now at or near Social Security age, Old Hollywood has assumed a different meaning. Indeed, there is a New Old Hollywood in place, regally presided over by the likes of Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and the indefat-

igable Warren and Jack as surely as Billy Wilder, Bogie, and Spencer Tracy once ruled the roost.

The New Old Hollywood is distinct from what might be called Young Hollywood or Today's Hollywood. Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell may be stars, but they're recently minted ones, relative pups; they're not New Old Hollywood. To qualify, you have to have some miles on the odometer, an authentic track record. You have to have a mature swagger, an earned, gray-templed sense of entitlement, a Clooney-Soderbergh belief in the idea that This is our town.

Herewith, BRUCE FEIRSTEIN and the Vanity Fair staff differentiate the New Old Hollywood from its Golden Age forebear.

OLD HOLLYWOOD

Places

Food

Things

Beverly Hills

Rodeo Drive

Wilshire Boulevard Temple

Hillcrest Country Club

I. Magnin

Cartier

Beverly Hills Hotel

Beverly Hills Hotel

"the Morris office"

Polo Lounge

Ma Maison

Chasen's

Bistro Garden, Ciro's, Scandia

Trader Vic's

La Scala, Matteo's

Musso & Frank Grill, Romanoff's

Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud

Civil rights

. S Thoroughbreds at Del Mar

; Thick, heavy eyeglass frames

Cigarette case from Frank Sinatra

Sending flowers

Residential neighborhood

Shopping destination

House of worship

Golf course

Department store

Jeweler

Business hotel

Affair hotel

Talent agency

Breakfast spot

Lunch spot

Dinner spot (regular)

Dinner spot (with money guys from New York)

Chop suey joint

Italian joint

Steak house Car

Cause

Toy

War paint

Status gift

Personal touch

NEW OLD HOLLYWOOD

Pacific Palisades

Montana Avenue

Celebrity Centre International.

Church of Scientology

Riviera Country Club

Barneys

Loree Rodkin

The Four Seasons

Hotel Bel-Air

CAA

The Four Seasons

The Grille

The Ivy, Mortons, Tower Bar

Spago

Mr. Chow

Dan Tana's, Orso, Toscana

The Palm

BMW 760i

The environment

L.A. Times

Short, spiky hair

Hi-def Sony Bravia from Sir Howard Stringer

Placing phone calls yourself

OLD HOLLYWOOD

Lew Wasserman

Walter and Carol Matthau, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones, Lew and Edie Wasserman, Billy and Audrey Wilder

The Fondas, the Goldwyns, the Hustons, the Ladds, the Minnellis, the Zanucks

Roddy McDowall

Tallulah Bankhead

Sue Mengers

Sidney Korshak

People

Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra

Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Lee Marvin, Robert Mitchum

Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Groucho Marx, Phil Silvers

Hedda Hopper

David O. Selznick, Darryl Zanuck

Irwin Allen, Leland Hayward, Mirisch brothers, Ray Stark

Frank Capra, George Cukor, Michael Curtiz, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Preston Sturges, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, William Wyler

Peter Bogdanovich

John Huston

Harry Cohn; Samuel Goldwyn; Louis B. Mayer; Ray Stark; Irving Thalberg; Jack, Harry, and A1 Warner

John F. Kennedy

Ronald Reagan

The young Robert Evans, George Hamilton, and Dennis Hopper

Inscrutable overlord

Power couples

Family businesses

Faithful confidant(e)

Wry survivor

Salty, adored raconteur

Fixer

Bad boys

Veteran comedy posse

Terrifying industry gossip

Acutely producer-ish producers

Further producers

Directors

Old-school wannabe

Crusty, universally revered polymath

Executive suite

Charismatic presidential pal

"Whoda thunk it?" politician alum

Emissaries from another era

NEW OLD HOLLYWOOD

David Geffen

Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw

The Coppolas, the Douglases, the Sutherlands

Sally Field

Carrie Fisher

Sue Mengers

Bert Fields

Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts

Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson,

Sean Penn

Albert Brooks, Billy Crystal, Larry David, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Robin Williams

Nikki Finke

Jerry Bruckheimer, Brian Grazer,

Joel Silver

Armyan Bernstein, Roger Birnbaum, John Davis, Donald De Line, Mike DeLuca, Lauren Shuler Donner, Mark Johnson, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, Arnold Kopelson, Larry Mark, Amon Milchan, Lynda Obst, Scott Rudin, Jerry Weintraub, Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher, Irwin Winkler, Laura Ziskin, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz

Jonathan Demme, Curtis Hanson, Ron Howard, Michael Mann, Mike Nichols, Sydney Pollack, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg

Brett Ratner

Clint Eastwood

Jim Gianopulos, Brad Grey, Kevin McCormick, Ron Meyer, Amy Pascal, Jeff Robinov, Tom Rothman

Bill Clinton

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The old Robert Evans, George Hamilton, and Dennis Hopper