I was told, “Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette, stars of ‘Miss You Already,’ plus VIPs Ed Norton, Cuba Gooding, Nicole Miller, Kick Kennedy, arrive 6 p.m.” Host Andrew Saffir didn’t. Nobody showed until 7ish. I sat alone in empty MoMA.
Earliest arrival, Lee Radziwill. Skinnier than my house key and seeming frail. Next, June Ambrose,Jay Z’s stylist. Someone whispered, “She’s wearing a Balmain that hasn’t come out yet.” And shouldn’t. Too short, too tight, too gold-embroidered. Also, she kept pulling up her crotch-high boots.
Down-to-earth Drew Barrymore actually kneeled down to chat. “I’m wearing Stella McCartney.” Stunning Drew’s dark appliquéd gown was a knockout. Also knocked out was the front, which showed everything but her scrapbook. Laughing, she tugged it closed. Said Toni Collette: “She’s shy. Not a tit kind of girl.”
Drew: “Who knows if this gown’s mine for keeps or not? I didn’t ask. Stella’s my dear friend. I love her. Friends play a big part in my life. This film’s about valuing friendship. Two women. I have two daughters. In the end, friends are all you have. Women put one foot in front of another. They’re heroes in life.”
The gorgeous gown was form-fitting. She manage to eat anything? “Please. I had lunch at Pastrami Queen. Big deli sandwich.”
Collette: “I play a charismatic, complicated woman who relies on those around her when becoming ill. We had lots of input so as not to mess up. I even checked with a family member who had a similar condition, and it’s a bitch.
“In the movie, I have a double mastectomy scene. It wasn’t as bad as you’d imagine because I actually have nothing up there to show in the first place.”
picture: summer wedding dressesJacqueline Bisset: “I play a small part. A flaky actress dingbat who annoys her daughter, with whom she hasn’t a good relationship. But what’s consuming me now is politics. I can’t stand what’s happening. Everything’s so difficult. I follow, but I get upset. I speak to about 15 people a day. All about politics. I like Obama. He’s so distinguished. And I respect everything Obama does.”
You a Democratic voter?
“I live in California, but I can’t vote. I’m British.”
Not that I’m one to brag…
Pardon — but back while every newscaster, reporter, pollster burbled about will-Biden-won’t-Biden, and before he weaseled out, I told you — flat-out! — he’s going no place. Not like I didn’t think so. I knew. Too old, too chicken, too often he tried and lost, too standoffish in terms of romancing fund-raisers and contributions. He just wanted limelight. I told you!
Please try to pay attention
The shmatta industry’s sewed up Hillary. Vogue’s Anna Wintour, bridal’s Vera Wang, Marchesa’s Georgina Chapman went Dutch on a cocktail fund-raiser . . .
April brings Cirque du Soleil: 38 aerialists, athletes, street pros, tightrope walkers and “acrobats defying imagination” . . .
A-Rod sniffing out investments. With FM Capital Partners he just bought 700 Ohio apartments.
Odds & ends
Designer Zang Toi, who dresses A-1 ladies, creating a line of greeting cards . . .
NY-1 anchors and anchorettes going on location to interview and mix it up in Greenwich Village’s annual Halloween Parade . . .
John Grisham bought his eighth home. Amelia Island, Fla. . . .
2014’s gold-medalist ice-skaters Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who’ve been on our Rock Rink, to again compete in Pyeongchang, South Korea’s 2018 Winter Olympics.
Le Pain Quotidien has this sign: “A yawn is a silent scream for coffee.”
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