The partier of the century

DIRECTOR Matthew Miele — whose documentaries include love letters to New York institutions such as “Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorfs” and “Always at the Carlyle” — has turned his lens to the city’s high-society chronicler David Patrick Columbia. The movie “Last Night in New York” follows Columbia, who runs the Web site New York Social Diary, from his humble beginnings in Massachusetts to rubbing elbows with the chicest 1-percenters at galas. It offers interviews from socialites Olivia Palermo, Patrick McMullan, Jill Kargman, Hilary Geary Ross, Muffie Potter Aston, Geoffrey Bradfield and Gillian Miniter. Columbia has been penning columns on the monied class for 30 years and told us he developed an interest in the upper class because of tales his father told of chauffeuring Jackie Kennedy’s father, John “Black Jack” Bouvier III. Meanwhile, he told us he still feels like an outsider. “I have been here for so long and know so many people . . . and they know who I am and what I do and I am treated by them as my profession [rather than a fellow human being]. They don’t say things in front of me they would say elsewhere and they are very polite.” The doc’s first chapter will run on his Web site Feb. 14.