Review: Elective Affinities
Good luck scoring an invitation to the most exclusive social reception in town. It’s being held at the palatial and luxurious Fifth Avenue townhouse belonging to the very wealthy Mrs. Alice Hauptmann. There you will be treated to tea, finger sandwiches, and a healthy dose of the vitriol at the heart of this fiendishly funny dowager.   The event is not real, of course, but actually a very clever, site-spec…