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Area Code 212

by Tama Janowitz

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I suppose 4 stars would've been more generous, but neither she nor her editors picked up on errors such as "Gray (sic) Gardens" for the Bouvier documentary that spawned the Broadway musical, nor for "Bear Stern (sic)" for the brokerage/finace company. Lots of celeb name-dropping (esp Andy Warhol). The writing itself is pretty good, although the compilation struck me as a dozen or so pieces too long. (

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For Paige Powell Who has always made the journey as fun as the destination

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Sometimes, living in New York, I got invited to movie premieres and screenings.

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Area Code 212 is filled with idiosyncratic delights and oddities of New York's wittiest social chroniclers, Tama Janowitz. Included in this book is her hilarious account of Andy Warhol's eighties blind date club; her brief moment of celebrity as an elderly teenage extra in a ZZ Top video; the day she tested mentally retarded on an IQ test; and many other revealing tales of New York life, including its parties, its restaurants, and its fashion. Janowitz gives us her unique lowdown on her 1990s conversion from Manhattan to Brooklyn, on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies, the outer boroughs, big hair days, and bad hair days.

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