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Sirio
Maccioni's launch of Sirio: The Story of My Life and
Le Cirque
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L.
to r.: Joan Rivers, Rudy Giuliani, and Sirio Maccioni;
Mauro Maccioni with Linda and Jeffrey Chodorow.
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Last Tuesday
night they closed Le Cirque and fifteen
hundred people showed up for the book party for Sirio Maccioni’s new book:
Sirio: The Story of My Life and Le Cirque. Sirio, of course, is the
proprietor of Le Cirque (and now, several other restaurants here,
in Las Vegas and in Mexico City). He’s had one of the longest
reigns as Leading New York Restaurateur in the city’s history.
That may be partly because he’s always in motion, always changing.
In the 1980s, all the Beautiful People, the Last Tycoons, the Social
Registerites, the Rich, the Chic and the Shameless, went to Le Cirque
in the Mayfair Regent Hotel on 65th and Park. Then he moved down
to his present location in the Villard Mansion annex to the Palace
Hotel on Madison Avenue and 50th Street. That’s where the 1500
showed up to toast him, along with his longtime loyal staff, his
wife and his restaurateur sons.
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Sirio
Maccioni
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The book was written by Peter
Elliot and Mr. Maccioni. It is a little
like being in the restaurant with all kinds of things going on. Mr.
Elliott tells you a little something about the place, about his life,
about the clientele. Then there is a chapter where Sirio tells you
about himself, about the place, about the clientele. Then there are
the recipes of those favorites dishes, some of which are not always
on the menu but are well known to the regulars who have been patronizing
his establishments for decades.
Those regulars are legion and more than a few were present on Tuesday
night for this celebration including Bob and Barbara Taylor
Bradford, David and Helen Gurley Brown, Mario Buatta, Dominick Dunne,
Jonathan
Farkas, Thom Felicia, Steve Forbes, Timothy Forbes, Eileen and Jerry
Ford, Katie Ford, Milos Foreman, Nina Griscom, Kathleen Hearst, Rick
and Kathy Hilton, Linda and Morton Janklow, Edward Koch, Evelyn and
Leonard Lauder, Fern Mallis, Nobu Matsuhisa, Drew Nieporent, LeRoy
Neiman, Carroll Petrie, Joanna and Sidney Poitier, Judith Regan,
Casey Ribicoff, John Cahill and Ann Slater, Barry Slotnick, Liz Smith,
Kathleen Turner, Donald Trump, Barbara Walters, Somers White and
Jonathan Farkas, Alice Mason, Denise Rich, Will Smith, to
name just a handful – all there, all basking in the celebrity
of Sirio’s
clientele and the menu set out to feast on. Did they have fun? What
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Liz
Smith and Peter Elliot
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Sirio
Maccioni and Leonard Lauder
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Sirio
Maccioni and Bill O'Reilly
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Robert
Tisch
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Denise
Rich and Charles Evans
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Dennis
Basso
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LeRoy Neiman
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Andrew
Saffir and Daniel Benedict
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Colin
Cowie
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Nicole
Miller
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Fern
Mallis
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| Photographs
by Chance Yeh/PMc |
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