LA Tour Connection

I attended the Tour Connection soiree with a colleague this past Monday night. The Luxe Hotel Rodeo Drive was assigned a new spot this year on the main floor, at the base of the stairs, so it seemed everyone walked past our table. It was good to see Mickey Weill and Andrea Kraus from ProTravel, Jerry Greenberg from Cassis Travel, Wendy Landers from American Express Travel, Brian Diaz of BD Tours, Linda Larson from Showtime, Pat Rainer from Pat Walker, Darryl Schirmer at The Promotional Edge and Melody Vincent from Air Apparent, Christopher Renzulli from Tourwerks and Wendi Fletcher. Andre Jacinto was in rare form.

What a delight to catch up with Judi Gordon and Al Rogo. Now that they’ve moved to Las Vegas, there is stardust in their wake. Don Sniffen is back and radiant. It was a bit scary to realize that I've known Cynthia Montgomery for 23 years. Johnna Hiatt had her gorgeous daughter in tow. Congrats to Sissy Alexander for going grey and looking marvelous in it. By 9:15, we had imbibed our favorite martinis, reunited with old friends and introduced ourselves to some new ones. Thank you to all the New Yorkers who joined us this year. Let's do it again in 2008!

P. S.

To Elizabeth Pozind: You stopped by and said 'hi', but I don’t think you recognized me. I'm not a blond anymore. That was 1993!

Last night I joined the exceptional publicist, Susie Dobson, for an evening with Napoleon Perdis, Australia's leading makeup artist at the unveiling of his flagship store on Hollywood Boulevard, only steps from Hollywood's most famous martini hang-out: Musso & Frank's. The male models seemed to be wearing (almost exclusively) body makeup and the females models were spectacular. The eyes and eyebrows said it all. The red carpet had some serious glam.