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Cirque du CMOM
CIRQUE DU CMOM
“Night in Hollywood: A Vanity Affair”
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Jay and J.J. Keras
Bethany and Joel Scoggins
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ust in time for Oscar season, Cirque du CMOM premiered “Night in Hollywood: A Vanity Affair” at the Children’s Museum of Memphis. A record-breaking 800-plus glittering guests and CMOM celebrities walked a red carpet ringed with paparazzi to enter the starstudded bash. A who’s who of CMOM celebrities included Katherine and John Dobbs, Kirby and Glenn Floyd, Kim and Johnny Pitts and Kathy and Dick Hackett. Inside, there were 30-foot posters of cinema’s most famous faces, a larger-than-life ice sculpture of the Oscar statue, replicas of Rodeo Drive storefronts, DJ Mark Anderson, a bourbon bar, a caricaturist and even a walk on the wild side with a Skid Row area of street musicians and (temporary) tattoo artists. The invitation encouraged creative attire with the suggestion to “Pick A Decade, Pick A Star, Bring Your Vanity, Show Us Who You Are.” Wes and Leigh Butler were pitch-perfect in their inspired homages to the stars of Gone with the Wind. Wes cut a dashing figure as Clark Gable. As Vivien Leigh, Leigh was wrapped in a feather boa and wore...well, scarlet of course. Commendably committed to character, Mr. Butler carried a 1939 SAG contract in his breast pocket. Appropriately, the Butlers were spotted hanging out in “Ciro’s,” a tented area made to resemble the iconic 1940s-era Hollywood hangout. Kaleb Brown, partying with his wife, Angie, and friends, Juli and John Hurdle, flashed forward a few decades with his Hollywood avatar: the unbuttoned, mustachioed and sunglassed look of a 1970s Tinseltown producer. Juli and Angie, who chaired the event’s online auction committee, kept it glamorous with leopard print and rhinestones. Anyone attempting to follow a Hollywood diet would have been sorely tempted by the likes of Cafe Society, Circa, Interim and Gigi’s Cupcakes. More than 30 restaurants provided irresistible, Southern-steeped offerings. Uptown Grocer dished up crawfish étouffée over creamy grits, and roller-skating ingénues purveyed dirty fries from Southern Revival that were deliciously dolloped with gravy, cheese and green onion. Tim Frandsen and Dr. Helen Lee, who relocated to Memphis from Southern California, enjoyed the slider bar, which featured lobster sliders from Felicia Suzanne’s and wild mushroom sliders from The Brass Door, among many other riffs on the popular edible. For their sponsorship, IBERIABANK, International Paper and Dobbs Management were named “Best Picture,” “Best Screenplay” and “Best Actor,” respectively. Cindy Dobbs and Janie Lowery cochaired the event that many are already looking forward to next February, as CMOM’s largest annual fund-raiser changes its theme yearly. See all the party photos at rsvpmagazine.com Password: RSVP
Pooja and Kushal Shah
Story by Kelly Cox Photos by Nathan Berry
Christy Muller and Stacey Flowers
Cathy and Jeff Harris
Leigh and Wes Butler
Maria Carter and Jeremy McDaniel
Janie Lowery, Cindy Dobbs, Erica Anderson and Alison Barton
Paul and Amanda LeMay