{"id":2251,"date":"2011-05-14T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2011-05-14T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T14:11:08","slug":"so-we-go-back-to-rufus-pitman%e2%80%99s-outstanding-dedicatees%e2%80%99-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"So We go Back to Rufus Pitman\u2019s Outstanding Dedicatees\u2019 Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 14th<\/sup> May 2011<\/p>\n

Tomorrow will be my account of Kernow Hellizon\u2019s launch: he <\/em>was actually there \u2013 a world-figure more enduring and as high as Diana Wales or Mrs Onassis. You won\u2019t believe it. You won\u2019t believe the other names either.<\/p>\n

But Rufus Pitman\u2019s dinner for the dedicatees of his novel, Buns and Bums at the Seaside,<\/em> endures more as does the exceptional work. So far it has endured and not gone bitter, as perhaps the other might in the strange mind of a Poor Little Rich Gay, since 14th<\/sup> April.<\/p>\n

I hope you know this novel. It was out in March. I couldn\u2019t agree with it more. It\u2019s not directly about Poor Little Rich Gays; its Gays are neither rich nor poor. If they were it would be even worse. But they\u2019re not normal. Nobody is of course, except those with something seriously the matter with them. But I won\u2019t have it any other way. Gays are not as others, Poor Little Rich Gays doubly so … and still subject to the attentions of Neighbourhood Watch.<\/p>\n

Read Buns and Bums.<\/em> You\u2019ll get the idea.<\/p>\n

What about its dedicatees? Great list of them, some married up to a point, high proportion Poor Little Rich, off and on their heads at the same time. Lord Arrowby, that austere Governmental figure from the highest of power\u2019s corridors, made a late bronzed contradictory entrance, displayed in a complex web of designer clothes and eyewear: sand trousers by Paul and Joe, sequined dun T-Shirt by Dries, aubergine evening jacket with damask pattern from an exclusive Indian line, man\u2019s silver necklace. He had an absolute grasp of his labels. After that he was not seen by me. I sat with Reggie Cresswell, the international Ghanaian ceramicist, who was suffering from nervous strain brought on by having Miroslav, our adored nightmare builder to the Poor Little Rich Gays, in attendance in the home. But he was approached by a fan which made him delighed and uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

Reggie and I agreed many years ago that we would never know another good night\u2019s sleep after Miroslav. (By the way, I hear that Rufus has got builders in. Can\u2019t wait to hear more. We love building work, as you know.)<\/p>\n

On my other side was Val\u00e8ry Duplessis, almost unique amongst the PLRGs in having regular employment. He told me his brother is getting married but has no suit. Val\u00e8ry has had to lend. He and Conrad, the disease expert (also present and a dedicatee), are to attend the wedding then retire to a boutique hotel at some remove.<\/p>\n

Rufus himself veered superbly between high and low. One minute High Table, the next Hello! magazine. He is one of the few left with conversation.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve probably been screaming \u2013 WHERE? Where was the fucking dinner held? Naturally Rufus homed in on the only place with any height in the dingy student and one-night-cheap-hotel quarter near Gay\u2019s the Word Bookshop, Bloomsbury, where he had made a pre-dinner appearance. It was the Norfolk Arms, Leigh Street, greatly liked by the party.<\/p>\n

Rufus’s fume, if you have not studied the comments department, was Pour Monsieur by Chanel.<\/p>\n

Now I am leaving for Die Walk\u00fcre <\/em>which is being cast live from the Metropolitan Opera New York at 5pm UK time in what will almost certainly be the greatest live performance of our lifetimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday 14th May 2011 Tomorrow will be my account of Kernow Hellizon\u2019s launch: he was actually there \u2013 a world-figure more enduring and as high as Diana Wales or Mrs Onassis. You won\u2019t believe it. You won\u2019t believe the other names either. But Rufus Pitman\u2019s dinner for the dedicatees of his novel, Buns and Bums […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}