Sibling Revelry

I was invited to a screening of That Other Boleyn Girl, which I couldn't make, but I did cut out of my master class in fiction to attend the lavish dinner that followed at Christie's. I mean who wouldn't cut class for a chance to view Natalie Portman, in a floor-length velvet gown, up close and Meryl Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer. Plus, the table decor featured macabre miniature guillotines with trick blades that stopped short of chopping off your digits. "Off with her fingers!"