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Susan Mercandetti of Random House; Stanley Moger of SFM Entertainment; Jack Myers with Kathleen Finch of HGTV; literary agent Esther Newberg; Peter Price with Regina Buckley; Armando Ruiz; Theo Spilka with Cindy Lewis; Andrew Stein with Missy Ross; Joe Armstrong with Dorothy Kalins of How2Media and Stephen Wagner; Mitch Rosenthal with Carol Brown; Len Blavatnik; Susan Blond with Peter Asher; producer John Hart; Lawrence O’Donnell; David Rhodes, 32 QUEST
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president of CBS News; Clifford Robbins; Stan Shuman; Mark Simone; William von Mueffling of Cantillon Capital; film producer Jay Kanter; Ron Meyer, vice Chairman of NBCUniversal; and George Ledes of Cosmetic World. That same night, the Animal Medical Center held its annual Top Dog Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street. They honored former police commissioner of New York Ray Kelly and the NYPD Canine Units. This was, as always a beautiful evening and brings out a lot
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Max and Annemarie Shea
of dog-lovers (and cat lovers too). The benefit co-chairs were Cass Adelman, Nancy Kissinger, Elaine Langone, Annette de la Renta, and Robert Couturier. They organized a very glamorous evening with the hall transformed by the remarkable David Monn. On a Sunday in mid-December, it was 66 degrees here in Manhattan. The sky was a nameless gray. The weatherman calls it “haze.” A kind of crazy haze. The day before the sky had a faded orangey-gray tint to it. It looked dirty, like
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pollution. It made me think of Beijing, although obviously there is no comparison. Mainly it made me think of the world we’re living in right now, like the weather. When I say “we,” I mean us: the people. Not “they,” those who call the shots, but the ones who have to watch out for our own safety. That, in and of itself, is a major task if you live in the city, or within proximity to masses of humanoids. Holidays in the air: In the Daily Mail, there was a series of photos (the paparazzo was
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