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In San Francisco, novelist Danielle Steel and her husband John Traina gave an elegant little dinner party for the cast of "Crossings," the miniseries (based on one of the hostess' best-selling books) currently shooting in the City by the Bay. In Los Angeles, the Beverly Wilshire's president George White and his wife Ronnie invited about 30 friends to meet Madame Jihan Sadat over dinner in the hotel's Fiesta Room. In Holmby Hills, Candy Spelling, Marcia Lehr and Ellen Lehr Black hosted a ladies' luncheon in the Spelling home to introduce the newest addition to the Lehr-Spelling boutique-pretty jewelry. And in Beverly Hills, Helene and Dr. Joseph Pollock had friends in for a Sunday-night buffet at their newly remodeled home.
Danielle Steel, the dark-haired, prolific writer, walked about the beautifully appointed living room of the family mansion in Pacific Heights carrying blond baby Vanessa on one hip, extending the other hand to her guests. Visibly pregnant (the newcomer is due next spring), she looked wonderfully fit in a sweeping dark gray silk hostess gown. Traina did a lot of greeting on his own while explaining some of the finer points of collecting such delectables as jade and malachite and Faberge cigarette boxes. More Steel-Traina children of various ages were about, blending nicely with the piquant mix of Hollywood and San Francisco society.
In a Sea of Chocolate Fudge
Dinner was served in the paneled dining room where fine wines and Cristal champagne accompanied the mushroom tart, the lamb and the profiteroles swimming in a sea of chocolate fudge. And the evening came to an early end as "Crossings" producer Howard Koch, an amiable man, firmly rounded up his crew and wife Ruth, and off they went into the night aboard the Trainas' baby van.
Jane Seymour and her husband David Flynn had had a busy day, driving their daughter from Santa Barbara to Beverly Hills so she could be part of a fashion show, then zooming to S.F. for the party. Cheryl Ladd and husband Brian Russell nested on a sofa; Stewart Granger and executive producer E. Duke Vincent charmed the ladies; attorney Lou Blau and his wife chatted with friends. The S.F. contingent sparkled, too-columnist Herb Caen with Terri Follett, Mrs. Francis Martin (better...