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Life of the Party.
Life of the Party
Fake smiles and phony air kisses? Check those at the door. Here are the best strategies for enjoying the evening-straight from the lips of insiders.
When Truman Ca- pote threw his Black and White Ball in 1966, some say the modern party-in its wildest, most shocking form-was born. It was a night in which tough guys like Frank Sinatra held whiskered masks, socialites in white satin gloves danced barefoot on the Plaza Hotel's ballroom floor, gin-soaked photographers thrust their cameras in the air and clicked madly, and the host himself crackled with excitement as he supposedly exclaimed, "Aren't we having a wonderful time? I love this ...
- That Old Arlen Magic
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Jonathan Yardley July 7, 1996 700+ words
...that to all intents and purposes closes the subject. Amidst all these snippets of inconsequential data, there are two things Jablon- ski completely fails to give us: Arlen the composer and Arlen the man. As to the former, he quotes Truman Ca
