Sam Wasson and his former college professor Jeanine Basinger likely had the longest commute to a party hosted by Graydon Carter in celebration of their new book, Hollywood: The Oral History. They drove two hours in the rain, from the middle of Connecticut to the Waverly Inn, in the West Village. Even so, they arrived early.
Wasson is a Hollywood writer—as in, he writes books about the film industry, not scripts for it. Basinger, who founded Wesleyan University’s Film Studies department, was his professor in the first few years of the 2000s. At the party, the student drank a martini, while the teacher drank white wine.
