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| She was never as thin as, say, Candace Bushnell. But Elaine’s gifts as a hostess were such that her workaday saloon managed to maintain its heat over three decades, from the days when dinosaurs like Tom Wolfe and Lewis Lapham had just hatched to that moment when Candace Bushnell’s “Sex and the City” defined an era of New York social life. “You can have a good time there—get incredibly drunk, get out of hand, and nobody bothers you,” Bushnell opined at the time (yes, at Elaine’s, they know how to make a Cosmo). Elaine’s has always been about testosterone. “That is very much the feeling of the place,” said Nora Ephron. “It’s a men’s club.” Which, to a certain kind of girl—like Candace Bushnell—has always made a lot of sense, indeed. LEGS, DIAMONDS: Candace Bushnell at Elaine’s Photo by: Jessica Burstein |
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