Titans of business, Warren Buffett and George Soros, avoid each other at HBO party

HBO's"Too Big to Fail"film premiere was not big enough to keepWarren BuffettandGeorge Sorosin the same room.

Sources who attended the cable network's bash at the Four Seasons say theWall Streetrock stars, whose investment strategies couldn't be more different, stayed well apart during the evening.

A source tells us Soros held court at a table in the center of the Four Seasons' Grill Room, where titans of finance lunch on weekdays.

Buffett, however, presided over a table of female financial journalists in the Pool Room, which is at the other end of a long passageway.

With the two titans of finance in opposite strongholds, one reveler says,"It was like having a scale of wealth"teetering back and forth. The soiree feted HBO's adaptation ofAndrew Ross Sorkin's book about the 2008 Wall Street crash and subsequent bailout.

Neither investor seemed interested in upsetting the balance by mingling. In fact, another party guest says that when Buffett arrived at the party via the Grill Room, with financial writerDevon Spurgeon, a photographer approached to suggest theBerkshire Hathawaybillionaire take a shot with Soros, who was also with"a much younger blond."

"Buffett looked a little uncomfortable with the request,"the source says."He said he was on his way into the other room and then hurried away,"with blond in tow.

Safely ensconced in the Pool Room, the elegantly dressed Buffett ensured privacy by taking a table on the raised terrace, which is protected by a brass railing. A source says he was further buffered by an all-female table of guests including Spurgeon, Fortune editorCarol Loomis,CNBC'sBecky Quickand BusinessWire's Cathy Baron Tamraz.

"No one could get to him,"says one source, who said that despite Buffett's sequestered state, he was able to enjoy the lavish Four Seasons spread, thanks to one woman at his table who ministered to his culinary needs.

"He was sitting right by the dessert buffet. And he enjoyed that dessert buffet a lot,"says the source.

Also at the party wereEd Asner, who plays Buffett in the film;William Hurt, who we hear is memorable asTreasury Secretary Hank Paulson;Ajay Mehta, who portraysCitibankchiefVikram Pandit; andCynthia Nixon, who plays Treasury adviserMichele Davis. That's rich.

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