PartyLines- photographs by Patrick McMullan

Are you excited about putting a lunch with you up for auction? “Yeah, my college friends have been the only ones bidding on it. Little do they know they’re the only ones who need to pay money to see me. Everyone else can have lunch with me for free.” —Brooke Shields

—The Pointer Sisters

What do you want to have happen to your character in Ghostbusters 3? “I want to retire and hand it over to a young cadre and cadet who can pick up the equipment and drive the car, because I’m too old for that now.” —Dan Aykroyd

—Regis and Joy Philbin

—Harvey Keitel

You sang ‘Wish You Were Here’ tonight. Have a lot of the guests told you their Pink Floyd memories? “The concerts I did with Pink Floyd, there’s almost no one here old enough to remember them. The last concert I did with Pink Floyd was in 1980. That was 30 years ago. So anyone who comes up and says they saw me in concert, they’re talking about me—MY concerts.” —Roger Waters

—Nina Garcia

What’s the most misunderstood thing about Alzheimer’s? “How big the threat is. It's not a problem about old people forgetting. It's a national crisis. It makes swine flu look like a walk in the park.” —David Hyde Pierce

—Patty Smyth

—Buzz Aldrin

Roger Waters performed tonight. Were you ever a Pink Floyd fan? “I wasn’t. But the funny thing is, he is one of my good memories. We were at a party at Bon Jovi’s house about a year ago, and Roger got up and performed along with Jon and Billy Joel and Paul McCartney. I don’t know how to use a cell-phone camera, but everybody else was holding up their phone and shooting. It was kind of fun.” —Bryant Gumbel

—Alexandra Lebenthal

Your grandma was a World War II code-breaker. Do you have the dolls she used in order to carry state secrets across enemy lines? “No, tragically when she and my mother had to flee the Nazis from Yugoslavia into Italy, they left everything behind. In fact, my grandmother said to my mother, ‘Grab your jewelry. We’re going.’ So she grabs the costume jewelry. My mother was about 7, and to her the costume jewelry was the good stuff.” —Muffie Potter Aston

—Amanda Hearst

Roberto Cavalli went to Serafina and ordered Mexican takeout. What would you have done if he did that in your restaurant? “He wouldn’t have done that in my restaurant because he wouldn’t have a table in my restaurant. I think he is disrespectful and it is unnecessary. If he wants to eat Mexican, go to a Mexican place. If he wants to eat French, go to a French place. I find that in very poor taste.” —Eric Ripert

—Anne Hearst McInerney

Does the title of princess get you special treatment in the States? “I am who I am. That’s how I was born, and I am very happy to be who I am. I don’t know if it gets me anything special.” —Princess Yasmin Aga Khan