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"So you’ll be appreciated," Taarette

"You don’t appreciate me"

"Don’t be absurd," shethis afternoon"

"What else are you doing today?" she asks tonelessly

"I’ll go to the Versace luncheon I’ll have a club sandwich I’ll nod when it’s appropriate" Pause "I’ll stick to the script"

The ca at and nothing’s registering on Tahtly as he lifts an Her any cafe au lait puts it back on its saucer and closes his green eyes, lacking the energy to argue The actor playing Bruce had a pro career as a basketball player at Duke and then followed Danny Ferry to Italy where Bruce i jobs and in Milan he s just flew from there A vase-a prop-filled with oversized white tulips sits nonsensically between them

"Don’t be jealous," Taing and neither one of theht be Bobby so Bruce finally answers It’s actually Lisa-Marie Presley, looking for Bentley-who because he got in at dawn accompanied by an NYU filht because the NYU film student had a tinted-blond chevron that accentuated already enore that Bentley couldn’t resist

"Don’t be jealous," Ta

"Just stick to the script," Bruce warns her

As Ta on a chro piano strains fro continues over the rest of Tahout the city is a tape BruceStones, Bettie Serveert, DJ Shadow, Prince, Luscious Jackson, Robert Miles, an Elvis Costello song that used toto both of them

A Mercedes picks Tammy up and a Russian driver named Wyatt takes her to Chanel in Rue Ca silently at first and then gasping until Gianfranco arrives and gets a sense thatfor an assistant to calh the fittings, and then she nancourt and soon they’re sitting in a McDonald’s, both wearing sunglasses, and he’s three years younger than Tammy, sometimes lives in a palace, hates the nouveau riche, fks only A his nanny, when he was ten) Tane outside Dior fourHe helped pick it up His car aiting It was getting dark

The French premier’s son has just returned from Jamaica and Tammy halfheartedly compliments him on his tan and then immediately inquires about his cocaine problem Has it resolved itself? Does he care? He just sMac and Ta painted so he’s staying at the Presidential Suite at the Bristol and it’s freezing in the McDonald’s, their breath stea if cocaine is bad for your hair Heand tries to hold her hand He touches her face, tells her how sensitive she is But it’s all hopeless, everything’s a label, he’s late for a haircut "I’m wary," she finally admits He actually-Taue plans about ain

She walks away from the McDonald’s, and outside where the filhtly and the Eiffel Tower is only a shadow in a giant wall ofup and Tammy concentrates on the cobbled streets, a locust tree, a police by with a black Gerets back into the Mercedes the Russian naes that she’s just going to have to skip-she’s too upset, things keep spiraling away from her, another Klonopin doesn’t help-and she calls Joan Buck to explain She dismisses the car, takes the Vuitton box and loses the fil Saint-Honore No one knohere Tammy is for the next thirty-five ly handso behind the wheel of a black BMW parked tightly against a curb somewhere in the 2nd arrondissees her mind and