[Career Highlights] Team Party Crash: ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ Anniversary
(via Gawker)
[Ed: Note the thank-you note at the very end of this very old post which I wouldn’t have included had it not just showed up in a random search online.]
Jessica —
Monday nights usually mean three things for Team Party Crash - half a carafe of rosé, several viewings of “Sister Act” and an abiding feeling of anger at John McEnroe for lettingTatum get messed up on pills. But as TPC solemly vowed to our social worker last week, tonight was going to be different. We were going to Odeon to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City, and Lil’ Tatie was going too! Staff photographer Eliot Shepard reports.
McInerney and theDaily News’ Hud Morgan share a tender moment.
Dapper Graydon CarGeorge Rush furrows his brow.
It was a gas to see the somewhat glassy-eyed but still anchorman-handsome McInerney at the restaurant he once wrote “makes you feel reasonable at any hour, often against bad odds.” That he demonstrated his gratitude to the place by writing a screenplay that inflicted scenes of Michael J. Fox hoovering up powdered milk in the restroom is a wound that has, apparently, healed.
Though the party was a virtual “Who’s who” of A-List twenty-four year old book publicists, the rest of the fabled Brat Pack was notably absent. The buzz was that Brett Easton Ellis thinks New York is a “cesspool” and that he’s fled to L.A. indefinitely. Inquiries on the whereabouts of Tama Janowitz incurred blank looks - and at least one steely glare.
Radar publisher Maer Roshan does the “good listener” thing.
Special thanks to Matt Caldecutt.
