What a (literally) rich life Ted Kennedy lived. Born very rich he had the luxury to wish for more money for the poor. Like the Brit lairds who were socialists and liberals and Fabians. How fashionable.

Two years ago we had drinks with Dominick Dunne here in Chicago, the night before the Last Supper with Conrad Black, and he was wonderfully bitchy about everyone and everything and especially the much despised and resented Vanity Fair.

Whenever you think it can't get worse it does! The Julia Child moveeee--we followed that foul mouthed "blog" where a low-class clerk supposedly cooked all the recipes in Mastering and we were not impressed with the quest for fame and the charade. Neither was Julia whom Symposia met on several occasions and who was a Yankee through and through--steely, controlled, empirical and cool.