Comedienne Alexandra ('Just call me Ali') Wentworth has a memoir coming out that promises to be as zany and entertaining as she is. I own—and cherish--her WASP Cookbook, a blue velvet-clad homage to preppy culinary classics. (And I just saw that, much like a blue chip stock, the book has appreciated nicely in value since I bought it years ago, with the cheapest used copy going for $42 on Amazon. )
I’m also excited to see the forthcoming film Damsels in Distress by Whit Stillman, the Woody Allen of the Wasp set. Stillman is famed for 1990's Metropolitan, about the lives of privileged Upper East Siders attending deb balls over the winter holidays. He will be live chatting during a screening of the film on Constellation.com on January 12.
I just finished the second memoir by an actress who made her debut (so to speak) in that film, Isabel Gillies, better known for her role as Detective Stabler’s wife Kathy on Law & Order: SVU. In A Year and Six Seconds, Gillies describes how she moved back to New York to rebuild her life following a devastating divorce. Gillies writes easily and candidly about her fairly cushy upbringing, which in many ways mirrored that of her Metropolitan character. Could a Waspy reality TV show be far behind? I’m envisioning an elderly couple clad in 40-year old matching tweed suits (bought in London, but of course) getting ready for a cocktail party; they learn that they don’t have enough Goldfish to fill all of the little engraved silver bowls. Imagine the drama!
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