|  Twenty years ago I attended a book party for a friend of mine, Nancy Holmes, who had just written a novel. She was being honored by an old acquaintance who had booked the party room at Chasen's in Beverly Hills, one of the long standing celebrity restaurants of that era, now defunct. It wasn't a large group, no more than forty people, many of them celebrities and former high officials of the government.
The atmosphere was friendly and congenial. One of the guests was James Stewart, an iconic figure who had graced the silver screen for most of my life. He put out his hand and introduced himself to me.
"I'm James Stewart," he said, as if I didn't know.
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