Fran Lebowitz Steals the Show at WSJ. Magazine Anniversary PartyThe author turned heads and doled out wit as WSJ. feted its first decade and a mini documentary.

[Collection]Instagram followers or an affiliation with the name Kardashian can get one pretty far these days, but Fran Lebowitz seemed to be the big draw at Tuesday night’s WSJ. magazine fete. The literary doyenne arrived early at the Metrograph Theater on the Lower East Side, where WSJ. celebrated its 10-year anniversary with about 150 people and a short documentary on its “columnists” interviews, in which Lebowitz is featured. Heads ever so casually turned toward her as she stopped to smoke outside upon arrival. Maybe some were marveling that she maintained her uniform of buttoned-up shirt, wool blazer, stiff, cuffed blue jeans and black boots despite the 95-degree heat. Lebowitz gamely posed for photos holding a large cutout of her WSJ. cartoon, but handed it off after a few snaps. Her sardonic bits of wisdom given in the mini-doc garnered the most laughs and even whooping approval, and there were some gems. “People listen to me, in other words they listen to what I’m saying, but they don’t do what I tell them to do.” “No one ever compares themselves down, only up. No one thinks ‘I should be in a refugee camp.’” “I’ve been angry since I was born and I’ve never physically

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