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Service. If you didn’t know: God’s Love We Deliver cooks and home-delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves. Founded in 1985 as a response to the AIDS pandemic, it now serves individuals living with more than 200 different illnesses, and their children and caregivers. With a community of more than 15,000 volunteers, they deliver 1.9 million meals annually. All services are free to clients and full of love. For more information, visit godslovewedeliver.org. Then there’s always Hal36 QUEST
Pepita Serrano, Alexa Rodulfo and Caroline Brown
Philippe De Montebello and Fred Larsen
loween. One night at Doubles, the private club in the Sherry Netherland, was the Spooktacular Soiree where Wonder Woman (Wendy Carduner, the club’s director, in the costume) awarded prizes to Nicole Noonan and Steve Knobel as Matador and Bull; Lucia Gordon as Nefertiti; Duncan Sahner as Mozart; Marisa Rose and her table of Vikings, and to Maria and Kenneth Fishel for Best Decorated and Best Costumed guests. You had to be there. Among the other guests (costumed or not) were Barbara and Donald Tober, Daisy Soros, Alexander Lari,
Fred Larsen, Sharon Hoge and Judith Hernstadt
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Sharon Bush, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Patty Raynes, Paola and Arnold Rosenschein, Chris Cicala, Denise Deluca, Kathy Springhorn, Jenny and Geoffrey Symonds, and many, many more. Keeping on calendar, one Wednesday, I had lunch at Michael’s (vegetable japchae; sweet potato noodles, my new favorite—you can get it with bulgogi hanger steak, or chicken, or salmon) with Blair Sabol, who is on her annual visit to her old stomping ground—Noo Yawk and the northeast. We were joined by Patricia Bosworth, the author,
Cathy Shraga and Jonathan Piel
an old friend of Blair’s. The two worked together back in the ’70s at the Village Voice and New York magazine, and there was some off-hand reverie about the people they worked with—admiration and respect. I’d met Ms. Bosworth before, in passing, but I knew about her work as an author: acclaimed biographer of Montgomery Clift, Jane Fonda, Marlon Brando, and Diane Arbus—all of whom she knew and wrote about as real people rather than as movie stars and legends. Earlier in her life, Patty, as her friends know her, was an actress. Her father,
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Geraldine Kunstadter