Looks like Christopher Hitchens’ intimate gathering at his Kalorama home following last year’s White House Correspondents Dinner was quite a success, because Hitchens and Vanity Fair are going to repeat the affair.
Hitchens and his wife, Carol Blue, will host the magazine’s after party, meaning that the battle is on for “best after party” (other candidates: Bloomberg’s party at the Costa Rican Embassy and Capitol File’s party at the Newseum). You’ll recall that the Vanity Fair party was the pre-eminent soiree before it bid farewell in 1999 (Hitchens fondly recalls one time when Barbara Streisand caught on fire and author Christopher Buckley extinguished the flames), but Editor in Chief Graydon Carter decided to bring it back last year. The Hitchens/Blue home holds barely 200 people so the list is always exclusive. Last year’s attendees included Fred Thompson, Paul Wolfowitz, Antonin Scalia and Jerry Brown.
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In party-pooper news, Reuters is bowing out of its off-site after party this year, preferring to host a more low-key affair at the Washington Hilton, where the dinner is held.
