• "DIVE!" (10250 Santa Monica Boulevard) Steven Speilberg's colorful restaurant in the Century City Shopping Center, which was shaped like a submarine, closed its doors in early 1999, after months of slow business. The place was standing-room-only when it first opened in 1994, but the last time I visited, in late '98, customers were few and far between. (Which just goes to show that not everything Steven opens becomes a smash hit. Remember his comedy "1941"?  I didn't think so...)

• "ECLIPSE": (8800 Melrose Avenue) actor Steven Seagal was part-owner of "Eclipse" restaurant, which took over the old "Morton's" space when Morton's moved across the street. Eclipse became all the rage for a few years, but it closed its doors in August of 1997. (The former Eclipse space re-opened in mid-1998 as "Pagani".)
  
  
• "SANCTUARY", at 180 N. Robertson Blvd., a trendy, new Beverly Hills supper club which boasted celebrity investors such as Pamela Anderson Lee, star of TV's "Baywatch" and Costas Mandylor (who played "Kenny" on CBS's "Picket Fences") recently shut its doors.
  

• "CARROLL O'CONNOR'S PLACE" in Beverly Hills, a restaurant owned by the actor who starred as 'Archie Bunker' in "All In The Family" and "In The Heat of the Night," was badly damaged in Northridge earthquake and was forced to shut down. (It re-opened recently as Principe Ristorante.)
  
  
• "COLUMBIA BAR & GRILL": owned by M*A*S*H star Wayne Rogers (and featured in the Robert Altman movie "The Player"), also closed its doors in both Hollywood & Pasadena.
  
  
• And /Prince's downtown nightspot, "GLAM SLAM" (at which the Artist and Stevie Wonder had appeared on stage in concert), bid a fond adieu to the City of Angels in 1995, when  left L.A. and moved to Minneapolis.

• The legendary Jimmy's restaurant in Beverly Hills closed its doors in 1998, but then recently announced plans to re-open in OIctober of '99..
  
  
• One other major celebrity hangout, Drai's restaurant, on La Cienega, also disappeared from the Hollywood power scene.

And there was a fairly recent opening to note:

"ON CAÑON CAFFE & TRATTORIA " (301 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills) opened in April of 1995. This new restaurant is brought to us by the people who gave us Il Forno, with similar Italian food and prices. In May of 1995, On Canon opened a private, members-only cigar room upstairs (called the Grand Havana Room), where privacy-loving celebrities who enjoy smoking cigars can sit out on the balcony and puff away. There's even a private, hidden elevator to take them right up to the room. It has become "Hollywood's newest exclusive hideaway". Even before it opened, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro, Milton Berle, Jack Nicholson, Tony Danza, Dennis Franz ("NYPD Blue") Andy Garcia ("The Untouchables"), Jason Priestly ("Beverly Hills 90210"), and Tia Carrera ("Wayne's World") had spent $2,000 each (plus $150. a month maintenance fee) to reserve one of the club's 350 private humidors. (310) 247-2900.