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Sam Nazarian, the gregarious thirty-year-old C.E.O. of a restaurant-hotel-club-and-film group in Los Angeles, is six feet four and heavily cologned, with meaty cheeks and a soul patch. He wears a dense gold watch and opal cufflinks and a slinky bracelet made of medieval crosses and diamonds. Nazarian, who comes from a prominent Persian Jewish family in L.A., owns a night club, Shelter, on the Sunset Strip, and another, Prey, in West Hollywood, and a pan-Asian restaurant, Yu, in Santa Monica. A few years ago, Nazarian decided to call his company S.B.E., after his lawyers suggested that its previous name, Samyboy Entertainment, lacked gravitas, and in January he hired the ...