'Bar' tab gets paid by Rudin.(Scott Rudin wins screen rights for book 'The Tender Bar')(Brief Article)

Scott Rudin won a bidding battle for screen rights to the J.R. Moehringer memoir "The Tender Bar," beating several bidders with a high six-figure against seven-figure deal that includes a piece of Rudin's backend gross.

Rudin will set it at a studio after he enlists a filmmaker.

The Hyperion book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times writer was published this week to glowing reviews. Those plaudits stoked the bidding situation.

Autobiographical story tells how Moehringer, who grew up not knowing his father, found surrogates by…