If his fingers had been spaced just a little differently in the first picture, I would guess that it was a Star Trek themed penis napkin gag of some kind.
Lionel looks very happy to have just gotten lei'd in that last picture!
Aha! Thanks for the explanation. My bad, as they say. I was thrown because of the capital letter - I didn't think it could be the German word meaning "sorrow"...
Looks like Lionel just got Leid in the photo below.
Who is Leid and how did Lionel get them?
Looks like Randy in the lower right hand corner of the first picture.
Well, the penis might well have that effect...
The "lei" photo was taken during a 1985 tribute dinner for Lionel Newman, marking his departure as head of music at 20th Century Fox. Why was he (as well as his wife Berverly) wearing a Lei ? Because they were heading to Hawaii shortly after.