Gilded Age cast party at the Plaza before season four

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe cast of The Gilded Age ate cheese tortelloni and duck shawarma at the Plaza Hotel and had their portraits sketched, the New York Times reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFolks, that's the news. Actors ate dinner. Somebody drew them. The season is due on November first, and this is how we're told.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint one. The menu. Cheese tortelloni and duck shawarma.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's an Italian dish and a Middle Eastern dish at a party for old New York high society, and nobody explained it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint two. Showbiz411 said the red carpet was outnumbered by social media influencers, not cast members.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAt a party for a show about keeping the wrong people out.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe show spends years on who gets into the ballroom, and the real ballroom had a different answer.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI think the gate was a guy with a clipboard, and he got tired.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPoint three. Showbiz411 also said one main cast member wasn't there, Christine Baranski.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOf everyone, she's the one who got to stay home and eat on her own couch.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd here's what bothers me. Creator Julian Fellowes spoke before the screening and praised the HBO chairman, Casey Bloys.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAt a show about the powerful, the speech went to the powerful. Folks, that's the plot.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo my take: that was four courses of snobbery, all of it catered. Dinner, a sketch artist, and a speech. That's about the whole night.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNobody invited me to the Plaza. Which, after all these years, I'm told is how the old money would have wanted it.