D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A B r u c e l i v i n g sto n ’ s pa r t y at t h e to p o f t h e sta n d a r d
Guillermo Gomez and Valeria Pollak
Chief William Bratton, Agnes Gund, Marie Rafferty, Doug Band, Tory Burch, Frédéric Fekkai, Marie-Josée Kravis, Lisa and Phil Falcone, Harold Ford, Nicolas Berggruen, Alexandra Lebenthal, Gillian and Sylvester Miniter, Rosanna Scotto, Jerry Speyer, Bettina Zilkha, Alice, Tom, Billie and Laurie Tisch. The Tisch family is a major philanthropic and business force in New York. Two brothers, Larry and Preston Robert (Bob) Tisch, started out as very young men in the 1950s in the hospitality business, when it was known as the hotel business, with a hotel on the Jersey shore. 34 QUEST
Bill and Nancy Rollnick
Nelson and Cedra Rockwood
In the 1960s, these two men created, first through a series of mergers and acquisitions, a conglomerate of profitable companies from financial to consumer goods, to hotels and what is now Loew’s Corporation. As their businesses grew, so did the families of both men. Today, many of their heirs are active as a unit and as individuals in many New York projects and institutions. What is remarkable now is that the children of Larry and Bob Tisch have carried on their fathers’ legacies. Jonathan Tisch is a good example of what the Tisch name means in the city today. And last night’s
David Rockefeller and Bruce Livingston
Allen Blagden and Gretchen Babarovic
guests were witness to it. The following week, on a partly cloudy, slightly chilly evening down at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, Literacy Partners held its twenty-sixth annual Gala Evening of Readings. This is a black-tie affair and the program is set but the changes within it are always a wonderful surprise. Liz Smith, who cofounded Literacy Partners about twenty-seven years ago with Arnold Scaasi and Parker Ladd, opened the evening. Onstage with her was Bob Hardwick on the Steinway grand (to play a musical introduction here
Debbie and Jeffrey Stevenson
Amanda Church, Alfredo Pecora and Vivian Bernal
and there), plus the evening’s readers who, this year, were Sara Gruen, David Finkel, Mary Karr, and Norris Church Mailer. They opened with Sara Gruen, author of the awardwinning Water For Elephants. Gruen was born and raised in Canada and now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, her sons, and a menagerie of rescued animals, which includes two horses, four cats, two dogs, and a goat. She read a selection from Ape House, her latest novel. She was followed by Mary Karr, who wrote the bestselling memoir The Liars’ Club, which brought her fame
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Dailey Pattee