And the details of how his remains ended up with a starring role at a Halloween bash his dear friend Joanne Carson once threw at her Bel Air home in 1988 certainly match his outsized reputation.

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“This is a building of high achievers,” says Joanne Carson. “People who live here are not climbing. They have arrived.” The building is United Nations Plaza, a 32-story cooperative ...