GEORGE CHRISTY
George Christy
Al Khosravi
Nora lighted the candles on the Menorah, created from ice, in honor of her friends and family
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Nora Leah Safvati celebrated her Bat Mitzvah with sister Niloufar, brother Sina Simon, dad Shahriar and mom Mojgan at the Four Seasons Hotel
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eautiful Megan Safvati wore the gown to daughter Niloufar’s Bat Mitzvah, with Niloufar, gorgeous and svelte as a model, now studying medicine in Miami.
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o maintain this tradition, Megan donned the gown this week to her youngest, equally beautiful daughter Nora Leah’s Bat Mitzvah at the Four Seasons on Doheny Drive Quelle figure, dear Megan, as our French friends like to say, and what a lovely family you and your good doctor husband Shahriar Safvati have given us to embrace.
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egan and Shahriar hosted a grand, everybodyplease-dance fete celebrating Nora’s life in the hotel’s ballroom with friends and family that included Nora’s grandfolks Molo and Saleh Safvati). A sea of Nora’s classmates with rosepink cheeks and
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high-stepping legs crowded the dance floor, along with the ageless charmers, while the Band of 10 musicians and singers Sohrab and Cat Chang performed hot-to-trot Persian favorites.
action/adventure films, including an uncredited Gunga Din helmed by the great George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor Mature and Douglas Fairbanks.
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fter Lilly and companion Douglas Banker returned from Northern California in midweek, she informed they wined and dined at the popular Cockscomb, a gastropub discovery located South of Market in San Francisco. Chef Chris Cosentino offers a roast pig on his menu, and both Douglas and she pigged out on the porky, devouring all, including the head.
didn’t miss a dance beat, a pleasure to see them floating gracefully to the music, as they also did two years ago when the Safvatis celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with a sensational dinner-dance at the Four Seasons Hotel.
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e were privileged to be included through our yearslong friendship with Princess Lilly Fallah Lawrence, who introduced us to the hosts that we added to our list of People You Should Know. Regretfully, dear Lilly was called out of town to the Bay Area this week on the family’s petroleum business. Her late iconic dad, Reza Fallah, served as Iran’s powerful ambassador for oil. Lilly, being born at the White House of the Persian Gulf in Iran’s oil capital of Abadan.
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he was christened, early on the “oil baby” of her native land, and has commanded every room she’s in with her alluring beauty and international style. At 16, she declined the Shah of Iran’s proposal for marriage, choosing instead at that tender age to wed American sportsman Francis “Bunty” Lawrence. Bunty’s dad, Vincent, wrote 39
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wo decades ago, the late New York Times columnist William Safire wrote: ‘Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our first lady – a woman of undoubted talents, who is a role-model for many in her generation – is a congenital liar.
“The lies change. “The liar doesn’t.” Online at www.bhcourier.com/category/george-christy
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dditionally, they fell in love with Quince restaurant on Jackson Square that Lilly touts as somewhat akin to her American favorite of all time, chef Joel Robuchon’s eponymous, Michelin-starred dining room at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. ____________________
Magic Johnson with wife,Cookie
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egan (Mojgan) slipped effortlessly into her designer gown from more than a decade ago. A glamorous creation she wore to son Sina Simon’s Bar Mitzvah. You may gauge the years from knowing that handsome Sina Simon’s a graduate of the UCLA Law School who’ll be taking the California Bar exam later this year.
nd she keeps telling Americans one huge, disgusting lie after another. As I wrap up writing this book, Hillary has claimed that ‘we didn’t lose a single person in Libya.’ Really? Try telling that to the families of the four men we lost on September 11, 2012 ...
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et’s say it straight out, that Hillary Clinton lied about the reason for the Benghazi attack. She lied about it to the nation as a whole and she lied right to the faces of the grieving family members of those who died there – lied about her lying,” writes former Presidential Secret Service officer Gary J. Byrne in his memoir, Crises of Character which was published this week.
The Legend of Tarzan’s Margot Robbie, along with Alexander Skarsgard, attended the world premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures’ film at The Dolby Theater, which opens this weekend Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou
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