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Actually, these folks at the Knopf party Friday night (at Comme Ca in West Hollywood) were practicing the time-honored BEA ritual of party-hopping. This particular scene featured some very big names that mean a lot to people in publishing (Sonny Mehta) and at least one new author that anyone would recognize (Barbara Walters.) Anne Rice and Arianna Huffington were allegedly on site as well but remained unspotted by me. I did enjoy conversing with Amanda Boyden, author of the forthcoming Babylon Rolling, however. Later in the evening, we headed to The London, for a cocktail party thrown by The New Yorker. Among those in attendance were chipper Starbucks-selected author Garth Stein (Art of Racing in the Rain), New York Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus and author Salman Rushdie. The biggest, hottest ticket in town was the secret party that Prince was throwing at his rented home up in the hills to promote his 21 Nights. Here are two words of advice for anyone attempting to attend a "secret party" in the hills of Hollywood: 1. DO NOT assume that your rental car's GPS will be able to navigate you through miles of dark, twisty roads that have confusing names. 2. DO NOT assume that just because one member of your party has an actual invitation that all three of you in said rented Ford Focus will be able to crash the scene. You might be sent (politely) to park on the side of the guard shack while the parade of cabs, limos and people who got actual invitations slip through, then sent back along those same dark, twisty roads with nothing to do but yell insults at the GPS navigator. That's 'nuff said. |
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Posted by Rusty Shelton @ 10:44 AM Sat, May 31, 2008
Hilarious story, Mike, and well done on your coverage. I gave a short mention in my review this morning on our blog: phenixpublicity.blogspot.com.
Hope to see you out there today
Posted by Vognar @ 3:14 PM Sat, May 31, 2008
Please turn left on Canyon Creek Road...
Good times.