Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner?

With people like Lindsey Stokes being amusing at her gracious host’s or hostess’s expense, it’s no wonder Los Angeles is spoken of as one of the loneliest, most heartless cities on this Earth.

Dinner parties might be confining as Stokes says, but they are an exercise in human communications, an art forgotten by Stokes and her friends.

SHIRLEY JOHNSON, Beverly Hills