Cover
Title Page
Prologue
Book ONE: Spring and Summer 2002
1 THE COMEDY
2 MY TABLE
3 LUNCH
4 THE POWERS THAT BE
5 THE PARTNER
6 MY THEORY
7 THE BALLAD OF JEAN-MARIE
8 IN THE SAME BOAT
9 BOB PITTMAN—A DIGRESSION
10 NOT GETTING IT
11 BARRY BUFFETT
12 AND THEN THERE WAS MURDOCH
Book TWO: Autumn
1 THE LIFE OF THE PARTY
2 AILES AND TRUMAN
3 MY DINNER WITH RUPERT
4 THE REHEARSAL
5 THE OTHER PANEL
6 THE FIRST DAY
7 THE MISSING (MEL AND SUMNER)
8 CHARLIE AND MICHAEL
9 MORE MICHAELS
10 KEN AND STEVE
11 MORE MICHAELS AND MORE DINNER
12 KURT AND HARVEY
13 TERRY, PETER, AND JEFF
14 THE MAN UP THERE
15 UNREAL PROPERTY
16 THE BIG EVENING
17 THE GUEST LIST
18 Martha
19 TINA
20 AND STILL MORE COCKTAILS
21 PINCH
22 THE FINAL DINNER
23 BARRY TRIUMPHANT—SORT OF
24 WALTER
EPILOGUE: WINTER AND SPRING
INDEX
Notes And Acknowledgments
About the Author
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