Book Party

Woke up very cranky, left the house early, around 9:30, cabbed to Chembank.  Got a letter at the office from the White House from Jimmy Carter.  I wish I’d talked more last month when I met him, but I was so nervous.  He’s really nice, though, a really nice man.

Jamie Wyeth still was painting Arnold Schwarzenegger who was still posing.  Lunch for Jamie and Arnold.  Alex Heinrici came by to touch up something.  Worked all afternoon.

Picked up Bob Colacello and cabbed to 45 Sutton Place South.  A book party for Anita Loos given by Arnold Weissberger.  I had forgotten my tape and camera and there were lots of celebs.  Arnold Weissberger and Milton Goldman have the longest-running gay marriage in New York.  Arnold is seventy-something, the biggest old-time show-biz lawyer and amateur photographer.  He takes pictures of everyone who comes to his house.  He had a book out last year called Famous Faces.  He had the book on the dining table at the party and he was making the famous faces sign it next to their pictures.  Milton Goldman is sixty-something and a big agent at IFA.  Bob noticed that he was the only person under thirty there - barely - and I said that Arnold must be afraid to have young kids because he might lose Milton.  All the butlers and bartenders were over sixty.  They brought one drink at a time and the tray shaked.