Bad Manners Mar Book Party

Posted on April 24, 2005

Debut thriller author Cheryl Howard Crew (the wife of producer Ron Howard) was thrilled to attend a book party thrown by producer Brian Grazer and his author wife Gigi Levangie Grazer to celebrate the release of Ms. Crew's new adventure novel, In the Face of Jinn (St. Martin's Press). The party at the Grazers' Pacific Palisades mansion featured guests such as Renee Zellweger and guests Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi and Lara Flynn Boyle. But, according to the New York Post, one guest's terrible manners kind of ruined the evening for the Grazers.

But one poor guest got "really drunk," according to another spy, and paused to have a smoke in the house. After carefully removing a pen and paper from a vase, she began casually tapping ash in it.

"I didn't know I had a $40,000 ashtray," Grazer quipped when he noticed her, causing the embarrassed woman to flee the premises.

Clearly, the woman was deeply in need of the new Emily Post's Etiquette by Peggy Post.

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