D A V I D P A T R I C K CO L U M B I A c a s t l e C o n n o l ly h o s t e d i t s f i f t h a n n u a l n at i o n a l p h y s i c i a n o f t h e y e a r a w a r d s at t h e h u d s o n t h e at e r
Martin Levine and Max Gomez
open-minded, gentle, lovely, courageous, kind, and funny woman as she is. When you read it you will know why she would probably be your friend too if you knew her. I also met Lucy Simon, who is a sister of Joanna and Carly Simon, at the Kingsley party. I told her I had met her sister Joanna, the singer. Then Lucy told me she too was a singer and that the three sisters had three different registers—soprano, contralto, alto, and, evidently, once upon a time, before fame changed the perceived equation, as it always does, the girls sang together. Lucy and Joanna also sang professionally as The Simon 28 QUEST
John Jay and Ingrid Connolly
Toni and James Orsini
Stanley Chang and John K. Castle
Sisters. Pop fame aside, these sisters occupy a special place in New York lore because their father was the Simon of Simon and Schuster. The girls grew up in the rarefied world of literature and the arts and culture of post-war New York; a rich and brilliantly creative time and turning point in the city’s history. The Vicky Ward book party at the Four Seasons: Dan Abrams, Boykin Curry, Celerie Kemble, and Jeffrey Leeds hosted. The book was The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, which is already no. 10 on the New York Times
Bestseller List. Vicky, if you didn’t already know, is a perspicacious reporter often featured in Vanity Fair with an eye and an ear for rarefied places peopled by the ordinary craven and greedy. The rest of it is the bad news. I haven’t had a chance to read Vicky Ward’s book yet, although I know when I start I won’t be able to put it down because: 1) She is an excellent reporter, and 2) there are a lot of people close to the center who also were deeply betrayed both financially and in personal relationships. The foolers fooled ‘em. Big turnout for Vicky:
John B. Buse and Etta Pisano
Leonard Apt and Randy Hanlon
Chloe Crespi, Marina Rust Connor, Ed Epstein, Jonathan and Somers Farkas, Louis Grunwald, Arianna Huffington, Jennifer McGuire, David Margolick, Christopher Mason, Susan and John Nagel, Ronald Perelman, Euan Rellie and Lucy Sykes, David Kuhn, Peggy Siegal, Jay Snyder, Susan Solomon, Cyrus Vance, Felicia Taylor, Dan Peres, Kate Betts, Norman Pearlstine, Maureen White and Steve Rattner, Tom Russo, Ed Skyler, Graydon Carter, Ken Auletta, Binky Urban, Milly de Cabrol, Jeffrey Podolsky, Suzanne Gluck, Stephen Graham, Tom Hill, Perri Peltz, Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Pat r i c k M c m u ll a n
Matthew Reeve and Alexandra Reeve Givens