Nan
Kempner gives Ed Victor
a kiss. |
ED VICTOR’S DIET BOOK
You
Can Never Be Too Thin
(or
Too Rich)
Story by Roger Webster
Photos by DMI
 HE
House of Harry Winston’s president, Patricia Hambrecht,
hosted a champagne Veuve Clicquot reception, in the jeweler’s
Fifth Avenue salon, for her pal, Ed Victor, in honor of his
new book, The Obvious Diet: Your Personal Way to Lose Weight Fast
Without Changing Your Lifestyle.
In
his book Victor, a prestigious English literary agent as well as an
author, reveals some hilarious diet secrets of friends famous for
being in good shape.
Mel
Brooks
and Anne Bancroft: “We keep our upper bodies in good shape
by having a terrible fist fight everyday. (Don’t take that
seriously, please!)”
Candice
Bergen and
Marshall Rose. |
They
were there with their son Max and his fiancé. Max won an
Emmy Award a few days later as part of the Saturday Night Live
writing team, indicating that there is truly a funny gene.
Nan
Kempner:
“Convince yourself that you are not hungry and you won’t be. Do
not eat everything on your plate. Having said that, cut out bread
and potatoes and fattening foods. Have self-control and exercise
regularly.”
Tina
Brown,
who is now a London columnist based in New York: “I trained myself
to cut the portion size and after two weeks my stomach had
shrunk.”
GQ
Editor in Chief Art Cooper: “Before attending cocktail or
book parties, I stuff my pockets with slices of radish and cucumber
and baby carrots to nibble on instead of those fattening canapés.
It is well worth the pressing bills for all those damp suits.”
Serena
Williams shows off her
lucky bracelet. |
Other
guests included Erica Jong, who is thrilled that Victor just
sold Norton & Company her new novel about the life of bisexual
poet Sappho, Australian art critic Robert Hughes, Winston’s
communications director Carol Brodie and her husband Stuart
Gelles, publisher Jane Friedman and journalists Gary
Shapiro, Tom Gates, Cj Satterwhite and Christopher Mason.
Everybody seems to love this guy.
The
following week, Ms. Hambrecht flew to France where Winston was the
only American jeweler at the Paris Biennale in the Carrousel du
Louvre.
Among
those stopping by to see its display of over 100 million dollars
worth of diamonds, including the new Twelve to Twilight collection
which was first introduced on Venus Williams just before her
triumph in the US Open, were French President Jacques Chirac
and his wife Bernadette, the American Ambassador Howard
Leach and his wife Gretchen, Catherine Deneuve, Hubert de
Givenchy, Empress Farah Pahlavi,
Max Brooks with fiancée
Michele Kholos, and his
parents,
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.
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Joanne and Roberto de
Guardiola, Ronald Lauder, Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis, Elie
de Rothschild, Veronica Hearst, Susan Gutfreund, Bunny
Williams, Carol Mack, Kirat Young, Frannie Scaife, the Zilkhas:
Ezra, Cecile and Bettina, Lee Radziwill, Peter Marino, Robert
Couturier, Juan Montoya, Tom McCarter and Herve Aaron.
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