Table Talk

Everyone says Area is "like a Fellini movie"—except Fellini. After being swarmed and swamped at the club's party in his honor, the movie maestro escaped to Elaine's and a bowl of rigatoni.

The Eurotrash Prom: At the first ball of Club Biron (the Junior International Club spin-off), the girls all came as Maggie Thatcher and the boys all came as Peter Lorre.

Tit for tat: Pace Gallery stung Leo Castelli and Mary Boone with Julian Schnabel's million-dollar defection; Boone got even by stealing Pace's top minimalist, Brice Marden.

A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound, Euromoney magazine is the one you'll find junior investment bankers photocopying.

Just when you thought it was sae to take out your macrame planters again, Brenda Bolling (formerly with Mary McFadden) is causing a stir on Seventh Avenue with $2,500 couturier macrame dresses that Joan Collins and Diana Vreeland are wearing.

What do Lewis Lapham, Bill Paley, Baroness von Thyssen, and Stavros Niarchos have in common? Their Upper East Sides have all been trompe l'oeiled by Brooklyn-based Moroni Associates.