Hedge Hogging
Barton Biggs
Constable and Robinson
Month: November 2006
Party Of The Century: The Fabulous Story Of Truman Capote And His Black And White Ball
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Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, which took place on Monday, November 28th, 1966, was an event without peer in the annals of New York society. The masked ball hosted by the William K. Vanderbilts in 1883 runs at a close second, but Capote’s masked ball had the added element of being a modern media phenomenon directed by a man who was himself a modern media phenomenon.
Last Curtsey: The End Of The Debutantes
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‘Women: know your limits’ was Harry Enfield’s marvellous spoof 1950s public information film in his 1990s TV series. It told women how to behave: a 1950s upper middle-class dinner party, rendered in crackly black and white, has four couples in evening clothes sat round a mahogany table, the men bantering with each other, the women smiling sweetly.