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In the late seventies, it was the vogue of lunch Â'ladies that "hen to throw lavish parties for each other. Jackie Collins I said Jerry Hall gave a lunch party for fifty girls, Jackie and sealed the fate of them. Dialogue juicy enough to meet several of his books Hollywood I guess.
I think one of the most glamorous parties hen I went, it was a birthday bash given by the model exotic Marie Helvin for best girlfriends. At the time I wrote a column called Gossip Â'bitch 'for her then husband, David Bailey, editor of a deceased "Ritz Newspaper ', so I think that Mary invited me, purely for me to hide his party. Marie committed all of the eleven Park Walk, off Fulham Road, which was one of the best restaurants in fashionable London in the time, and discretely paid for the meal after the bash was over. The guest list included: Angelica Houston, who was the girlfriend of Jack Nicholson, Nona Summers a society hostess Elsa infamous SchiaparelliÂ's Marisa Berenson, granddaughter, the beautiful actress and worldly.
At the time, it looked exactly the same as it did in a "Cabaret", which was quite miraculous given that she had recently undergone extensive plastic surgery on his face after a car accident. In those days I hadnÂ't been given a tape recorder freebie and still using my shorthand, if ita's a shame I didnÂ't surreptitiously tape lunch, because I remember CanÂ't in minute detail, what we all talked. Nothing on earth, shattering world events, I think. All I can vividly remember as a woman, a rich lady Theater impresario's smoked cigarette after cigarette between courses, phobia todai because anti-smoking is completely outdated. The late Tina Chow, who tragically died of AIDS, said she had returned from holiday in Sardinia, where she said as Fanta and frozen pizzas have been lavished, and all at prices Â'exorbitantÂ. Given the continental currency was then pre-euro todai as standards, the range of fodder would be quick now considered cheap.
Â'The crowded beaches covered in perfume, lipstick that looked like they all had been recruited from a Rogers & Cowan guest list, Tina said. (Rogers & Cowan is a Â'AÂ 'showbiz list public relations firm). Â'Next time I'll vacation on a yacht, a "she added. She said she had also been at the Vatican, just after Pope John Paul I died. His reign of thirty-three days was shortest papal history. Zandra Rhodes jumped in ten minutes, saying it was the first time she had lunched in three months, and topped Tina saying she had also recently visited the Vatican, but before the Pope died. Other girls like Lady Victoria Waymouth, before getting married (the late) Patrick Lichfield, the royal photographer. Owner of an agency model Laraine Ashton, a former model-ri Omar Sharif (a movie star at the time), trying to lick the champagne with his toe the night before. Everyone had to feel happy after lunch, as all women offered to give me a lift home. I was so touched that I bitch about didnÂ't one them when I wrote the lunch.
Copyright: Frances Lynn, 2006
Frances Lynn is a professional writer and journalist. Her two novels, “Frantic” and “Crushed” are published by Eiworth Publishing at http://yourbookstore.eiworth.se Her personal website is http://franceslynn.org