Billy Norwich
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It doesn't really fit me.
They were $150.
Wow.
And you have 500 young people come.
And Mrs. Onassis and Mrs. Pat Buckley, they always said it was their favorite part of the night was seeing how the young people came and kind of presented themselves at the party.
It was very different.
My first Met was probably in 1985.
And it used to be at Christmas time and it would unveil the Christmas tree.
And Pat Buckley, who was the wife of William F. Buckley Jr., was the chairman of it.
She had taken it over from Mrs. Vreeland.
And it was rare that a celebrity, a movie person, went to the Met Gala.
She wasn't born yet and I remember Bob Mackie who was controversial because he was sequins sequins Brought share and
And I was a cub reporter for the New York Daily News.
And Cher was hiding behind a pillar.
She was so uncomfortable.
In her Bob Mackie.
In her, like, where the hell am I in New York society?
What is New York society?
So that was my first one.
And I went every year until 2016.