Table Talk

Jiminy Cricket! Postmodernist Michael Graves (who did Diane Von Furstenberg's Biedermeier trunk on Fifth Avenue) is planning to redesign the Disney studios. Imagine the star bungalows: Huey, Dewey, and Louie meet John Candy.

Animal shelter: Why is the interior decorator to Manhattan's fashion-designer set always photographed with his dog? "Now that he's part of my image,'' he confides, "I can tax-deduct his dog food."

Dog daze 2: An ad in the New York Post featuring a pooch with a halo and a tabby with wings says: "Eternalize your pet.. .using the miracle of freeze-drying."

Better red than dead: Thanks largely to Nancy R., television guests are all now wearing red dresses, red pocket handkerchiefs, and red neckties. Even newsmen are becoming Nancy boys.

Eyebrows were raised one night during the Joffirey Ballet's New York State Theater season. In the middle of Cloven Kingdom a GQ-blond waiter maneuvered his tray along the front row of the first ring bearing a glass of apple juice. Destination: Queen Sirikit of Thailand.

Bonnie Swearingen's birthday was commemorated by twelve parties and some unusual presents for the woman who has everything: a letter from Richard Nixon, some Cabbage Patch Kid bedroom slippers from Abra Anderson, sapphires and an undisclosed number of Continental Bank shares from herhusband.

Hers and Hers: At the Whitney Biennial party, curator Lisa Phillips linked herself distinctively with her discovery, photographer Laurie Simmons—both wore identical silver satin Yohji Yamamoto jumpsuits.

When Ray Donovan's the subject, Time looks like its old unbylined self. Its stories about the labor secretary's alleged Mafia connections go unsigned. It's hard to cover a beat wearing cement shoes.

Uptown churl: Christie Brinkley has been blacklisted by the Marschalk agency after a catfight in which she flushed another model's makeup down the toilet.

The Hollywood Reporter's extensive coverage of Joe Papp's gala party for the play based on T.S. Eliot's unhappy first marriage got one thing wrong. Instead of Tom and Viv, it was called Tom and Vic.