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...David Steward, a former president of TV Guide, and his partner Pierre Friedrichs, a caterer, hosted an uncomfortably crowded cocktail party at their Manhattan apartment. It was a typical gay fund raiser--there were lemony vodka drinks with mint sprigs; there were gift bags with Calvin Klein sunglasses; Friedrichs prepared little blackened-tuna-with-mango-chutney hors d'oeuvres that were served by uniformed waiters. Billionaire philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr. was there; David Mixner, a gay activist and longtime friend of Bill Clinton's, was holding court with Jason Moore, director of the musical Avenue...
...nothing seems to match 1975's dedication to martial morbidness. Here, you can sink into the bar's floor cushions that look like filled sandbags, and order a cocktail from a waiter dressed in combat fatigues who was born long after 1975-like those sipping the drinks. So what draws the young and trendy Lebanese crowd? "Our parents tell us the war was a good time," says bartender Ali Ajami, 21. It can certainly seem that way from the comfort...
...like coffins that fold down to form a dance floor. T shirts for tourists boast, beirut: it's a blast. But nothing seems to match 1975's dedication to martial morbidness. Here, you can sink into the bar's floor cushions that look like filled sandbags, and order a cocktail from a waiter dressed in combat fatigues who was born long after 1975 - like those sipping the drinks. So what draws the young and trendy Lebanese crowd? "Our parents tell us the war was a good time," says bartender Ali Ajami, 21. It can certainly seem that way from...
...gift enables him to learn more than he wants to know about other people's private lives, but it cannot save him from messing up his own. He soon finds himself fired from his job and passively succumbing to sexual entanglements with a dopey ex-colleague and a predatory cocktail harpist who lives in a neighboring apartment...