Nice Friends If You Can Get Them: Nora Ephron Hosts Dinner Party For Arianna Huffington

There are several perks to being Arianna Huffington: For one, she’ll never have to search her couch cushions for enough change to buy a two piece and a biscuit. (Not that we’ve ever!) Plus, she also gets to have some pretty famous friends, like Nora Ephron, who do some pretty snazzy things, like host dinner parties in her honor.

We hear that Ephron, who is an editor-at-large at the Huffington Post in addition to the guiding force behind its “divorce” vertical, hosted a dinner party in celebration of HuffPost’s recent merger with Aol, which made Huffington president and editor in chief of the Huffington Post Media Group.

The Indian feast (prepared by Ephron herself) was enjoyed by several bold face names working in media: ABC anchor and correspondent Diane Sawyer (who had just returned from Japan); writer, director and producer Mike Nichols; ABC anchor Christiane Amanpour; journalist and professor Jamie Rubin; Frank Rich (who recently left The New York Times for New York Magazine); Rich’s wife, The New York Times‘ Alex Witchel; MSNBC host Joe Scarborough; Scarborough co-host, Mika Brzezinski, attorney and philanthropist David Boies and his wife, Mary Boies; magazine publisher Mort Zuckerman; Newsweek / Daily Beast editor in chief Tina Brown; and her husband, writer and former Sunday Times editor Harold Evans.

Not a bad crowd for a Wednesday night supper.

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