In June the documentary film TV Party, which documents my late-seventies/early-eighties cable show Glenn O'Brien's TV Party, the show David Letterman called "the greatest TV show ever," arrived in the nation's video stores on DVD—released by MVD (Music Video Distributors). Then in August four new DVD compilations hit the stores, each with a single one-hour show and about a half-hour of highlights from other shows—featuring such personalities as Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Nile Rodgers of Chic, Fred Schneider of the B-52s, David Byrne, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Lurie, P-Funk's George Clinton, Mick Jones of the Clash, Klaus Nomi, Richard Sohl and the Patti Smith Group, Fab Five Freddy, and fashion photographer Steven Meisel, among many others. To celebrate I threw a little cocktail party at the garden of the Soho Grand Hotel. Among those attending were Chris Stein, Debbie Harry, James Chance, Fred Schneider, director Charlie Ahearn, artists Tom Sachs, Donald Sultan, Spencer Sweeney and Duncan Hannah, Robert Arron of the Wyclef Jean Band, fashion mogul Andy Spade, art dealers Jeffrey Deitch and Patrick Fox, star rock photographers Kate Simon, Roberta Bayley, Bob Gruen and Leee Black Childers, writers Gary Indiana and Michael Gross, editor David Hershkovits, and Parisian punk legend Edwige Bellmore. Here are a few pictures from the evening.

Fred Schneider of the B52s, Spencer Sweeney, Chris Stein of Blondie

Wild Style director Charlie Ahearn, Paper magazine's David Hershkovits

Gina Nanni O'Brien and artist James Rizzi

Michael Gross, photo by Patrick Fox

Saxophone collossus Robert Arron and Kate Simon, photo by Patrick Fox