Dining & Drinking

October, 1977

Los Angeles, it seems, has taken to the Rangoon Racquet Club at 9474 Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills with a late-night fervor, since it is one of the few places that aren't membership clubs where one can rub elbows over sturdy drinks with Lotus-land's suntanned denizens and catch up on the latest gossip. Like the MGM lion, the bar roars lustily--from sundown to long past midnight--with a racy mix of celebrities (regulars include Mary Tyler Moore, Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, James Baldwin a...