Show Business: Hollywood (Hot) Dog Days

When Hugh Hefner is the social draw in Hollywood, it is obvious that there have been great changes in lotus land. From his 30-room mansion, New Arrival Hefner stages Sunday barbecues replete with Playboy bunnies, while Hollywood oldtimers seem to be making do with hot dogs and sangria. Some of the established hostesses, Roz Russell, Denise Minnelli, Mrs. Gregory Peck, still stage conspicuously sumptuous affairs now and again. But in the new Hollywood such lavishness seems almost ostentatiously out of date.

The change has come about both by necessity and choice. Partly it has...

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