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"Hey Victor" Baxter shakes ? Ready for tomorrow?"

"Do you have the ti out over the rest of the roo table in the center, beneath a chandelier erator wire, where Eric Bogosian, Jiosian, Harvey Keitel, Ti salads, which touches so in ets totally out of hand

Finally sensing ets up, pockets his Audiovox MVX cell phone, which is sitting next to Chloe’s Ericsson DF, and cluuys toers, reuess"

"Bye, Baxter," Chloe says, tired but sweet, as usual

"Yeah, bye, man," I mutter, a well-practiced dismissal, and once he’s barely out of earshot I delicately ask, "What’s the story, baby? Who was that?"

She doesn’t answer, just glares atat me like I’m at a Hootie and the Blowfish concert Chill"

"Baxter Priestly?" she says-asksat a plate of cilantro

"Who’s Baxter Priestly?" I pull out so papers "Who the fk is Baxter Priestly?"

"He’s in the new Darren Star show and plays bass in the band Hey That’s My Shoe," she says, lighting another cigarette

"Baxter Priestly? What the fk kind of na seeds that cry out for re about so out with Plez and Fetish and a person whose parents actually naht have been a mistake"

"-and you do business with people named Benny Benny and Da an hour late? I had to wait upstairs in Eric’s office"

"Oh god, I bet he loved that," I ht I’d let you entertain the paparazzi" Pause "And that’s Kenny Kenny, honey"

"I did that all day," she sighs

"Baxter Priestly? Why a down Cliff the maitre d’ for a drink but it’s too late: Eric has already sent over a couess I’m used to your oblivion, Victor," she says

"Chloe You do fur ads and donate money to Greenpeace You’re what’s known as a bundle of contradictions, baby, not this guy"

"Baxter used to date Lauren Hynde" She stubs her cigarette out, s the chane into flutes

"Baxter used to date Lauren Hynde?"