facility proved popular with various artists - painters, sculptors, actors, and film directors. Since the demand far outstripped the seating capacity of its facilities, getting a table at Klub književnika became a matter of prestige. Actors Ljubinka Bobić, Jovan Milićević, Ljubiša Jovanović, Zoran Radmilović, Bata Stojković, Olivera Katarina, film directors Žorž Skrigin, Vojislav Nanović, and Radoš Novaković, painters Dragan Malešević Tapi, Petar Lubarda and Milo Milunović, academician Pavle Savić were a regular sight at the club. So were foreign intellectuals, artists and actors when in town — Alberto Moravia as well as Simone de Beauvoir and her partner Jean-Paul Sartre were all regular visitors. Restaurant would especially see a lot of famous foreigners during festivals such as FEST, BITEF, or BEMUS so that Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Czesław Miłosz, Samuel Beckett, Oriana Fallaci, Marlon Brando, Jean-Claude Pascal, Monica Vitti, Maria Schneider, Silvana Mangano, Rod Taylor, Sofia Loren, Gianni Agnelli, Günter Grass, Burt Lancaster, Robert De Niro, among others, visited Klub književnika. The restaurant was often the site of fierce debate. Therefore, like other famous kafane in communist Yugoslavia, Klub književnika also featured police informants dressed in civilian clothing, mingling in with other patrons, listening to vox populi and reporting potentially incendiary talk and ideas to their higher ups. In his NIN column from 2009, Momo Kapor wrote about his fellow writer and drinking buddy Miodrag Bulatović getting detained in 1966 after an informant at Klub književnika reported Bulatović for "criticizing the economic reforms introduced in 1964". On occasion, a quarrel between writers themselves would cross the line. The fist fight that erupted at Klub književnika between Danilo Kiš and Branimir "Brana" Šćepanović is still talked about. As the 1980s rolled around, and Yugoslavia moved into its post-Tito period, Klub književnika became one of the regular meeting points for politically inclined scholars and dissidents pushing for the abolishment of the one-party system many of whom would later go on to notable careers in politics such as Zoran Đinđić, Vojislav Koštunica, Vuk Drašković, Vojislav Šešelj, etc. The club also saw many academicians from the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) who around this time wrote the controversial 1986 Memorandum. The club was also a regular stop for Western intelligence operatives and diplomatic staff. US diplomats Lawrence Eagleberger and Warren Zimmermann were frequent visitors to Klub književnika. Reportedly, visits from Western journalists and diplomats were often