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This is not the stuff of recession-era tragedy. Christopher once came home to find his mother in a neck brace: she had curtsied too low to a duchess and caught a heel in her pearls. The Buckleys weren't plutocrats, but William's prodigious output--he could bash out a 700-word column in five minutes flat--and Patricia's inheritance made them more than well off, and the action leaps nimbly from the family's teak-and-mahogany yacht to its 10th century Swiss château to Patricia's memorial service at the Metropolitan Museum's Temple...
...Riviera film bash, which launches its 62nd official edition today, is really two, three, many festivals in one. For movie moneymen, it's the place to meet and haggle over the worldwide rights to new films. For the 1,500 international critics - yes, there still are that many left in a shrinking arts-news market - it's a giant screening room for hundreds of pictures, and a chance to get a jump on the rest of the world in discovering the hot new Romanian auteur. And for the celebrity hounds - the enormous paparazzi contingent and the locals who line...
Kirkland hosts their standard incestuous spring bash in the House courtyard. We hear they only like to have a ball with each other...
...Ranked nationally in a varsity sport, show off your muscles on a rock climbing wall at the Bouldering Bash (Lowell House A Entryway Basement, now til 1 a.m., free). Sponsored by DAPA as an alternative to drinking, we at FlyBy might prefer the drinking... but maybe you're more active and in-shape than...
Back when we had a functioning financial system, the guys who ran private-equity (PE) firms stood very near its pinnacle. "The new kings of capitalism," the Economist called them. The kings of birthday parties too: the $3 million 60th-birthday bash for Blackstone Group chief Stephen Schwarzman in February 2007 will go down in history as a glaring sign that the boom was about to go bust...