Mayes – from Opera Santa Barbara performing “Make Our Garden Grow” from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Each presentation featured a short video, produced and directed by Dana Morrow, screened on the Granada’s state-of-the art digital cinema system, donated by Roger and Sarah Chrisman, recipients last year. Among the cascade of glamorously garbed guests supporting the gala were Mike Towbes, Craig and Kirsten Springer, Nina Terzian, Allen and Anne Sides, Bob and Holly Murphy, Cat Pollon, Charles Ward, David and Pam Grossman, Richard and Mimi Gunner, Bruce Heavin, Lynda Weinman, Bob and Valerie Montgomery, Kerry and Geonine Moriarty, Beverley Jackson, Eric and Nina Phillips, Arlyn Goldsby, David and Anne Gersh, Janet Garufis, Christopher Lancashire, Catherine Gee, Robert Lieff, Brooks and Kate Firestone, Mary Dorra, Barry and Jelinda DeVorzon. Marcy Carsey, Dan and Meg Burnham, Hiroko Benko, Jeffrey and Margo Barbakow, mayor Helene Schneider, Virginia Castagnola-Hunter, Michael and Carole Ridding, Walter Bortz, Steven Sharpe, Jim and Stephanie Sokolove, Geoffrey and Joan Rutkowski, Henry and Dilling Yang, Carla Hahn, Bilo Zarif, George and Laurie Leis, Neil and Jill Levinson, Ivana Firestone, Bob and Sandy Urquhart, Derek Westen, Hayley Firestone Jessup, John Palminteri, and George and Helene Konstantinow. A legendary evening without a doubt.
(Back) Dan Burham, Lynda Weinman, Bruce Heavin, Celesta Billeci, Anne Towbes, David Marshall, Michael Towbes, UCSB chancellor Henry Yang, Richard and Luci Janssen, and (seated) Sara Miller McCune and Marcy Carsey (photo by Priscilla)
Dan Burnham, Lisa Loiacono, Christopher Lloyd, Celesta Billeci, Irma and Morrie Jurkowitz, Craig Springer (holding an Honoree Award) with Andrew Firestone (back row) (photo by Priscilla)
al performers to our Eden by the Beach annually, received the eclectic cultural program’s award, appropriately enough, from philanthropist Sara Miller McCune, who is currently A&L’s main sponsor. Santa Barbara Symphony musicians entertained playing works by Haydn and Scott Joplin. The third Legends award went to Montecito-based actor Christopher Lloyd, a three-time primetime Emmy Award winner and known for his
roles in the Back to the Future trilogy, The Addams Family, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was presented by film festival honcho Roger Durling, sartorially splendid in a Tom Ford tux. Leila Drake and Jack Stewart, members of Rodney Gustafson’s State Street Ballet, performed, as well as singers – sopranos Elizabeth Kelsay, Adrien Roberts, Carol Tsai, tenors Elliott Deasy, Zachary Mendez, mezzo soprano Molly Clemenz, and bass baritones Luvi Avendano and Byron
Cleese if You Please Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese may be returning to the small screen. John, I’m reliably informed, is talking with BBC executives in London after being offered a starring role in a new sitcom. The talks signal a thawing of John’s attitude to the British broadcaster, having said last year that he would never work for the BBC again as the
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Unhappy Trails The current lengthy drought is playing havoc with riding paths in our Eden by the Beach, Montecito Trails president Bobbi King said at the group’s annual fundraiser at the Montecito Valley Ranch home of Hal and Mary Coffin. “It just isn’t wet enough!” shrugged King in exasperation. “We’re getting a lot of dead trees that are falling all over the trails, at least twice a month in Ennisbrook alone. “It’s affecting a lot of big oak trees, pines and particularly eucalyptus, given they have shallow roots.” More than 150 participants, including equestrians, hikers, and cyclists, participated in the 52nd anniversary event, which helped raise around $15,000 toward the annual $66,000
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commissioning editors “had no idea what they’re doing.” But Shane Allen, the network’s head of comedy, says that John, who was behind classics like Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, says the program has been written specifically for him. “We’re in discussions about a piece that he might be in. It’s a sitcom in its very early days. He’s a comedy god, and the door is always open to him. “There are certain people who have earned their badges, who have got to do what they want.” Allen said the historic corporation had been too focused on an “obsession with the new,” neglecting some of its older stars. Another former Monty Python star, Eric Idle, has also been brought back into the fold with a new, one-off musical comedy written specifically for him. “These are great pieces of work that endure,” adds Allen. “This is a chance to try to reclaim that and say, these are titles and writers and pieces of work that are proven, and hallowed, and it’s a chance to introduce them to a new generation.”
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