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risotto or grilled salmon with Provencal vegetable confit. And then the dessert of apricot and pistachio crumble with raspberry sorbet or the seasonal cheesecake with fresh berries. Three-tiered tables beckoned with massive arrangements of colorful fruits and walnuts during the cocktail hour. Nothing spared to please family and friends.
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e met the Safvatis’ tall and handsome 21-year-old son Sina Simon, a UCLA law student who, like mom and dad, danced the night away (the Safvatis are born with rhythm in their bones). Sina’s professor Thomas Schwartz predicts Sina will enjoy success with his law career, and very likely become a political insider. His sister, 10-year-old Nora, is a dancer, too, couldn’t resist ordering mac and cheese, and revealing that her favorite subject is math.
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Celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary at the Peninsula were Dr. Shahriar Daniel Safvati and wife Mojgan with daughters Nora and Niloufar and son Sina Simon.
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ur hosts? Shahriar Daniel Safvati, the popular Urgent Care doctor, and his beautiful Mojgan dancing the night away, and, oh, what dancers they are. No back seat to Fred and Ginger, if you please. Their high spirits uplifting the distinguished crowd, whirling and twirling to Sway’s danceable beat (“when marimba rhythms start to play/dance with me/make me sway”), and nonstop danceable music from bandleader Sohrab. Mercifully, not like events where gents have cement in their shoes, while wives are itching to trip the light fantastic.
birthday). Between dinner courses, Niloufar entertained with cabaret tunes we remember and love.
four of Harvey Weinstein’s forthcoming films fetched $1.9 million during the 29th Anniversary of AmFAR’s Cinema Against Aids Gala at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc.
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hirley Bassey rocked the crowd singing Goldfinger. In attendance were: Nicole Kidman, Jessica Chastain, Leonardo diCaprio, Lea Seydoux, Sharon Stone, Goldie Hawn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christoph Waltz, Heidi Klum, Karlie Kloss, Audrey Tatou.
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arvey recalled a previous Gala when two boyfriends paid $350,000 each to have George Clooney date their girlfriends. He added that he then raised an additional $30,000 to kiss Ryan Gosling, and sniffed that he’s had “better kisses.”
hand was Dr. Mansoor Karamooz, who attended to the Shah of Iran’s health during the ruler’s reign. Dr. Mansoor informed he does not dine out, preferring to cook simply at home with the freshest ingredients. Admittedly not trusting most restaurants. pagne … tonight I decided on something else. I asked for tequila,” announced our host, as shots of tequila arrived at every seating. Shotglass in hand, Daniel thanked his family and loyal friends. Privileged we were to revel in a night that will be indelibly inscribed in everyone’s memory book.
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hank you, Daniel, thank you Mojgan, and thank you Niloufar, Sina Simon and young Nora. May the good life embrace you with the best of health and enduring friendships.
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roducer Steve Stabler found this year’s Cannes Film Festival to be “the rainiest, wettest, windiest, chilliest I can remember.” Online at www.bhcourier.com/georgechristy
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bout longtime friendships, Daniel, after dinner, introduced his classmate from second grade at their elementary school in Tehran. How aniel’s mom Molook many of us can attest to such a and dad Saleh danced to the rewarding surprise from our hot licks of Sohrab’s Persian past? music, with the crush of cireporting from France: cling dancers, as is the custom, waving handkerchiefs in the air. The fierce bidding to appear in
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he menu? A beet, walnut and arugula salad, followed by t h e choice of roasted chicken breast w i t h mushr o o m
Stefanie Powers and Joan Van Ark
Paul Reiser presented the Icon Award to lyricist Alan Bergman
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he Peninsula. Wine, dinner, music, dancing. Celebrating 25 years of love and togetherness. An invitation for family and friends, 75 in all, to gather at the five-star hotel’s Veranda Room. For an evening of merriment and festivities, including an impersonation of Psy and his best-selling Gangman Style. A night of nights launching the California summer season.
he fashionable Princess Lilly Fallah Lawrence and Marine Corp. Douglas Banker sashayed among the dancing guests. Lilly in a flowing couture coat of French blue velvet, patched with embroidered squares of Persian history. She admired, as did everyone, Mojhan’s pleated gown of caféau-lait chiffon created by Beverly Hills couturier Aria Baracci.
Dr. Ha’erii Bahman and wife Nima were among the champs. Not wanting to miss what they knew would be a fabled night, they motored South from Bakersfield, where Dr. Bahman practices orthopedic surgery.
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r. Safvati’s three brothers are doctors as well. And his lovely dancing daughter, Niloufar’s a pre-med student (quelle figure in Ralph Lauren’s clinging silvery sequins a la Marilyn Monroe at JFK’s 1962
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Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper
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The Longevity Center’s Gary Small with wife Gigi
Tierney Sutton entertained
Michele Lee emceed UCLA Longevity Center’s Icon Awards at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Honorees included Alan Bergman, Gerald S. Levey, Vicki Reynolds Pepper and Murray Pepper, Patric Hooper. The evening was chaired by Dr. Louise Horvitz and Nancy Levitt.
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