Damn, Now I Wish I'd Been There

Page Six has the inside scoop on the party that launched the Paris Review online interview archive last week. I quote the item in full because it'll vanish into the ether if I don't:

The literati at the Paris Review Foundation gala honoring William Styron at Cipriani on 23rd Street the other night raised a collective eyebrow when MC John Guare was unceremoniously booted offstage by a crowd of can-can dancers. Playwright Guare had prepared a long, rambling speech in which he rhapsodized about late Paris Review founder George Plimpton, the rare Hadada bird, Ghana, egrets and New Guinea that dragged on for more than 25 minutes. Organizers tried to be polite, but the only way they could get him to stop talking was by sending in the dancers. Guare looked noticeably annoyed when he appeared on stage later to introduce novelist Peter Matthiessen.