A year or so ago there were comments from the social press agreeing with Butler Burrell that Charles was a horrible person; this week shows a change of heart when they actually meet Les Royals, becoming tradesman tugging a forelock etc.etc. Mon Dieu!

Symposia just spent five days in Daleyville, i.e. Chicago, wondering how in the world she endured it for so many years. It must have been the Man at the Time Syndrome since it is so ineluctably dull and provincial. The good thing is that it makes Irritating New York look rather better.

Maybe Symposia is clairvoyant, but she just learned of the hilarious frisson between Theroux and the "cheapskate and sourpuss" Naipaul who are so much alike no wonder they hate each other. Two cats vying for the same spot in the alley.

Paul Theroux and V.S.Naipaul and perhaps Carl Icahn would be Symposia's wish list for An Evening to Remember. We adore biting, brilliant men. Chanel was rather masculine in her attitudes as we saw in the quotations festooning the Met show so maybe we would include her.

Comment: Lagerfeld really vulgarizes her spirit. What a travesty of style.

The night before last we saw Bill Clinton being interviewed by that smug whatisname? Brian Roberts?, the male equivalent of Paula Zahn. Anyway poor Bill looked like a beaten dog, kicked and starved and thoroughly miserable. Maybe he is sicker than he lets on. Speak of Shakespearean tragedy and the Wheel of Fortune!

As a refugee from 20 years in politics Symposia would be inclined to think of Mark Felt aka Deep Throat as little more than a vengeful rat. He wanted to be Number One after another creepo, Hoover, died.