D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A GEARY CONTEMPORARY HOSTED AN EVENING WITH THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
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to Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller, and Peter Cook. (Bennett went to school with Barbara Taylor Bradford.) Also recognized at the evening were: Judith Jamison, the dancer and choreographer who was artistic director (and is now the artistic director emerita) of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; author and illustrator Maira Kalman; Karl Ove Knausgaard, the Norwegian author famous for his six autobiographical novels entitled My Struggle; and Gloria Steinem, the author, the editor, and the woman who altered the address of all women to “Ms.” as well as the pacesetter who proved central to the Feminist Movement as spokeswoman and 34 QUEST
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leader in the 1960s and 1970s. Previous distinguished honorees of the Library Lions, which is now a more than 30-year tradition, have been Nelson Mandela, Elie Weisel, Oprah Winfrey, Martin Scorcese, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Kazuo Ishiguro, Robert B. Silvers, and Anna Deavere Smith. This distinguished company was also fêted by a special performance from Renée Fleming. The co-chairs included H.R.H. Princess Firyal, Mrs. Oscar de la Renta, Mr. Bayo Ogunlesi and Dr. Amelia Ogunlesi, Mr. and Mrs. John Paulson, Mr. Steven Rattner and Ms. Maureen White, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Schwarzman, Mr. James Tisch
and The Honorable Merryl H. Tisch, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wachenheim III, and Mrs. John L. Weinberg. The same night, up at the Plaza Hotel, the Drama League was holding its Centennial Benefit gala honoring the great Bernadette Peters with cocktails, dinner, and performances by Annleigh Ashford, Tammy Blanchard, Leanne Cope, Mara Davi, John Dossett, Danielle Ferland, Joel Grey, Norm Lewis, Sydney Lucas, Marin Mazzie, Debra Monk, Ron Raines, Garen Scribner, Tom Wopat, as well as the original cast and current Broadway cast of Dames At Sea and special guests Michael Douglas and Gloria Estefan. And down at
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Cipriani Wall Street, the Elton John AIDS Foundation was holding its annual “An Enduring Vision” gala, hosted by Anderson Cooper. Over at Christie’s auction house on 49th Street at Rockefeller Center, Michael S. Smith, the international interior designer was having a book signing for his latest (and fifth) book The Curated House; Creating Style, Beauty, and Balance (Rizzoli) with text by Julia Reed. Despite his “international reputation,” Michael is a California boy, born and bred, with a fabulous house in Holmby Hills, a sprawling desert retreat in Rancho Mirage, and a pied-à-terre penthouse on East 72nd Street.
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