 Truman Capote's unfinished novel "Answered Prayers" had as its setting a "catty and thinly veiled" version of the La Côte Basque; the chapter "La Côte Basque 1965" was excerpted in "Esquire" magazine in 1975.A scene from the film "Light Sleeper" (1992), directed by Paul Schrader, features Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandon eating lunch in the restaurant.Famous patrons included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Babe Paley, Nan Kempner and Frank Sinatra.