\t\t\t\t\tDan Tana\u2019s<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAaronP\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\u201cHe didn\u2019t make it as an actor, but he certainly got to hang out with them,\u201d Alison Martino, a longtime friend of the restaurant who runs its Facebook page, tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. Indeed, the eatery\u2019s comforting red-sauce fare and casual feel helped endear it to famous regulars Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Frank Sinatra and Jack Nicholson, to name a few. In 1999, James Woods sung its praises to THR<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tSome menu items are named after special guests, like the veal Milanese \u00e0 la George Clooney<\/a>, who hosted his 2006 post-Oscars party at Dan Tana\u2019s. \u201cIt feels like you walked right into the moment it was conceived,\u201d Cameron Diaz<\/a> told THR<\/em> in 2014<\/a> about its unchanged look.<\/p>\n \n\tTana dabbled in film producing, and his name inspired Robert Urich\u2019s moniker, Dan Tanna, on Vega$<\/em>, a series produced by Dan Tana\u2019s fan Aaron Spelling. After spurning offers from such interested parties as maitre d\u2019 Craig Susser \u2014 who opened his own namesake restaurant in 2011 \u2014 Tana sold Dan Tana\u2019s in 2009 to friend Sonja Perencevic, who still runs it. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cHe really cemented a following before he sold it, and they didn\u2019t change anything,\u201d says George Geary, author of L.A.\u2019s Legendary Restaurants<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s just that old Hollywood feel.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tIn 2014, Tana recalled to THR<\/em> that Drew Barrymore\u2019s parents changed her diaper on the bar and marveled, \u201cWe are still serving my original customers \u2014 and their children and grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n