ernhard funny but audience rude RECENTLY attended an ultra-elegant function and, although | didn’t realize it at the time, this was one of the most sought-after invitations in town. Louise Aird BRIGHT LIGHTS. -The occasion was'a luncheon hosted by Christian Pol-Roger, owner of Pol Roger Champagne, who'd'come all the way from Epernay Cedesc to help Van- couver’s Select Wine Merchants launch the two new Pol Rogers teleases — the 1986 Brut Vintage Magnum and the 1985 Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill. 6%... she gave ‘some people a... thrill ‘by changing “her dress on oS stageye ~The latter is So. named because Churchill prized Pol: Roger above - al} other’champagnes and was quoted ‘as saying, “’t cannotJive. without champagne. !n'victory t- deserve it and in defeat'I need it.” -, Churchill evidently felt he need- ed an excuse to justify his con- ‘sumption..! don’t think she needs an excuse, but Queen Elizabeth serves nothing else, and the next time you're at a party hosted by the‘German government (among others), Pel Roger ts what you'll drink. Pol Roger, one ot the seven Grand Cru, is obvicusly held in high regard, hence the designation of a Le Meridien private dining room as the Salon Pol Reger. There were just eight of us at the luncheon — seven handsome gentlemen and !. Yes, it’s a tough job, but it has to be done. Most of us were from West Van. Nibbling salmon and sipping champagne were Select Wines president Pierre Doise, Liquor Distribution Branch portfolio manager David Scholefield and Ladner Downs attorney and inter- nationally esteemed connoisseur Sid Cross. Monsieur Pol-Roger, a very dapper (and very typical) Fren- chman, held forth, at some length actually, on wine-making, market- ing problems facing the wine in- dusiry and the various attributes of different vintages. Well, Monsieur Cross is just as knowledgeable on these subjects. Frenchmen evidently don’t always like debates, and the conversation gota little, er, spirited — but ina polite way. - Sort of. At one point, Monsieur Pol-Roger, with a tight, smooth smile, said something so pointed, | actually blushed. Monsieur Cross displayed more class, calmly returning to his mea! while some- one else changed the subject. Phew, ; ‘ And then there was my own faux pas. Frenchmen hate it when women wear trousers. | wore trousers. Monsieur Pol-Roger probably thought | was making a feminist statement — in fact, 'd dumped coffee on my skirt that morning. C’est la vie. kkk Meanwhile, at the Four Seasons, a Pol Roger tasting was being _ Prepared by North Van's Jear- " Jaeques Aaron, another con- Noisseur who recently left B.C. Place Stadium to join Select Wine Merchants. oo. Most of the pecple there were industry members, some from.the North Shore, including Park‘Royal Hotel GM Mario Corsi, his maitre d’ Guy Easter, and North Van's Barbara-Jo Mcintosh, owner of that lovely Cambie Street eaterie Barbara-Jo’s, who was somewhat miffed when Monsieur Pol-Reger refused to speak English to her. He INTERNATIONALLY ESTEEM- ED wine connoisseur Sid Cross displayed class at a luncheon hoated by Christian Pol-Roger. must have been a Parisian waiter in another iife. wKw* My friends and 1 were the ones who were miffed at the Sandra Bernhard concert. Not by anything Zernhard did or said, but at the audience members. I don’t get it. if | see a homosexual person at a concert, am | rude to them? No. So why is it that, when homosexuais see me and my friends at a performance by a homosexual, they’re rude to us? So what if k.d. iang’s a !esbian? She has a beautiful voice. And so what if Sandra Bernhard’s a les- bian? She's funny. Yet when heterosexual women go io see these people, they’re sneered at by leather-clad practitioners of the alternative lifestyle. Does this mean that heterosex- uals are not supposed to enjoy a person's talent because he or she is gay? Are we supposed to pass on Eton John and fohnny Mathis? Do we have to burn our Peter Allen and Freddy Mercury tapes? And how did Judy Garland get’ posthumously co-opted into the role of Hero of the Homosexual? | must be missing something here. Anyway, Sandra Bernhard was OK. Good band (more leather-clad women), but she sang toc much. She was wryly funny in-her sar- - VAN High reunion — alumni Doug MacLauchlan (left), Betsy Hagepian and James Dun- ison Tiiscussed their new busineas ventures in fashion and film at Santos Tapas on Commercial Drive recently. pe PARK ROYAL Hotei General Manager Mario Corsi (le Pol Roger wine tasting prepared by Seloct Wine Marchante’ Jean-Jacques Aaron. donic observations of society. And she gave some people a thrill changing her dress on stage. Yawn. I'd rather that she stick 10 what she does best — comedy. Or was that supposed to be comedy? Gee, Jreally am confused... - Stopped in at the ultra-hip San- tos Tapas on Commercial Drive the other night and found three West Van High alumni reminiscing and discussing their new business ventures. 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