{"id":251,"date":"2009-08-14T20:17:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T19:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2009-08-14T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T19:36:43","slug":"elsa-knows-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Elsa Knows Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday 14th<\/sup> August 2009<\/p>\n

\u00a0Elsa Hodgeman\u2019s party last night! Glorious final burst before we close down for the holidays. Elsa is a crucial figure in the art world and tremendous friend and advisor to the Multis who were there of course. She\u2019s also coming to Tuscany, so we\u2019ll hear more of her. Her style is fully bohemian. Enormous Georgian terraced house which for years has been a kind of artists\u2019 commune. No frilly little canap\u00e9s on a slate in a nest of blossoms. In the kitchen a huge Parma ham and several cheeses, but access made difficult by a tremendous congestion of, as it turned out, QCs, Law Lords, Government Ministers, prominent doctors, art students, dealers and celebrities.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Oh the names!\u00a0 Grayson Perry! Last seen by me at the opening of the Towner Gallery extension in Eastbourne where I went with Bruce MacBain in April. Then he was in the frock. That\u2019s all I know about him. He wears a frock, very expensive looking, silk, hand-made apparently. He makes pots. I\u2019ve never seen one. Laura Malcolm doesn\u2019t approve. This time he was not in the frock. He\u2019s decidedly masculine in appearance. He said he\u2019d been made deaf by riding a motorbike.<\/p>\n

\u00a0That was it! No further conversation. The point is to gaze and be in the presence. Odd thing celebrity. Call it superficial but I\u2019m all for it. What a lift ! Otherwise there\u2019d only be reality. If you get to know famous people or they become friends, the magic fades. They are just like everyone else or worse. But you must have well-known people as friends. All poor little rich gays do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0And then Lord Baron. Former President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Ferociously important.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t believe it. He was also at the Towner opening. Lord B had an extension built some years ago by my friend, Gilbert Gray. So I brought that up. I actually spoke to Lord B. He said the extension had transformed his life, before house had been unbearably poky. It seems unlikely \u2013 I know his street. The houses are huge. Anyway all this was utterly riveting. Later Lord\u00a0B departed the party in a cycling helmet.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Only slight awkwardness was the lady from my bike shop, where recently I was just a little cutting and unstable about their enormous bill. Did rather reel to see her at Elsa\u2019s. Quite a biking theme to the evening, as it turns out.<\/p>\n

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Lord Baron, the King of Harley Street, leaves Elsa Hodgeman's party in informal cycing gear<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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