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a wide variety of people and vice versa. He was goodlooking as a young man so it could be assumed he had a sexual history slaked with variety since we’re talking about a certain time period in New York. Because he was in the art business he knew a lot. He had interesting things to say about what he’d learned, or heard, or observed. He had a group of cottages on Fire Island in Oakleyville, where it is said the ashes of his friends Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe were spread. The cottages all had names. One of them was named Garbo after his longtime friend who one day cut him 34 QUEST
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off with never a word uttered again. It happened after she learned that for years he had been recording their phone conversations and later playing them back for people. That was Sam, and that was Garbo. The winds of March that make my heart a dancer. At the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, the School of American Ballet held its annual Winter Ball. This year’s chairs were Pamela Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida, Marissa Mayer and Zachary Bogue, Elizabeth Miller and James Dinan, and Betsy and Rob Pitts. The Mesdames Joyner and Mayer are San Franciscans (Mayer is V.P. of consumer
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products at Google), and both are on the board of the San Francisco Ballet. Joyner (who is married to Giuffrida) is also on the board of the SAB. She is a force. She always looks glamorous, sparkling. She’s gracious, outgoing, friendly, and upfront. They raised a million last night for the school. They also had their highest attendance. The honorary chairs (and emcees) were New York’s onair media couple, Deborah Roberts and Al Roker. And the founding chairs, who’ve seen their child grow to something remarkable, were Coco Kopelman and Liz Peek. It was a glamorous event.
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The evening was sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels, which has been underwriting this gala for years now. Un Ballo in Maschera was held at the Grand Ballroom at the Plaza by Save Venice, which was started more than forty years ago by a group of friends who loved the city known as the jewel of the Adriatic, and wanted to help keep it that way through ongoing restoration projects. Save Venice has raised more than $20 million to restore more than four hundred works of art and architecture in Venice. The grand ball was a fundraiser for these projects. The room, designed for the evening
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