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Martin’s Sweet Success
For Children in Need
Photos by Jay Brady
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Smell of Success has always been one of my favorite movies. Dark,
brooding, foreboding and timeless. A
story of good and evil, and two eternal characters – JJ Hunsecker and
Sidney Falco.
Marty Richards and Georgette Mosbacher
hosted a glamorous preview of the Broadway musical, benefiting Mary Lea
Johnson Richards Child’s Advocacy Center, which they co-chair and
totally love.
The center is named for Marty’s late wife, who
dedicated much of her life to helping children in need.
Marty also serves as a producer for Sweet Smell – and
hopefully he’s scenting a whole lot of success in this terrific musical.
Cocktails at Sardi’s, followed by the show, followed
by dinner, made it a wonderful evening, filled with great theatre, beautiful
friends, interesting conversation, on a cold wintry evening.
Georgette was drop dead gorgeous in a full-length fur. Dr.
Ruth (Westheimer, if you didn’t know) entertained all with her accent
and charm.
Woody Johnson was there. He’s Mary Lea’s brother, owner of the Jets football team,
and a newly minted man-about-town.
Arlene Dahl, the ever-glamorous movie star, and
hubby and fragrance legend Marc Rosen, were there. Denise Rich and Jane Seymour came for dinner
and wowed everyone with their super chic presence.
Center co-chair Michele Herbert wowed in
leather, and most of the ladies wore their Dennis Basso furs.
Show stars John Lithgow and Kelli O’Hara
entered Sardi’s to roisterous applause – just like in the old Hollywood
movies. It’s good to know
that the tradition continues.
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Joan Allen and daughter
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Tori Burch with KISS-able kids. |
Warner Makes Kids Happy
And Shows New York Cares
Photos by Rob Rich
 HE very
youngest social people where having fun and whooping it up when Warner Bros.
joined with Barron and Conrad Hilton (the junior versions of
their very famous grandfather and great grandfather respectively), to invite
all their dear friends to see Scooby Doo and Friends in Stagefright
at the Radio City Music Hall.
With some 6,000 kids whooping it up, it was a lively
place to be. Warner Bros.
Consumer Products division generously donated 300 tickets to New York Cares
and made so many children happy.
Barron and Conrad were joined by school chums, friends
of friends, and a host of other well known faces (painted and unpainted),
including one easily recognizable face, Lourdes Leon (more famously
known as Madonna’s child).
Kathy Hilton, Scooby Doo,
Conrad, Bugs Bunny, Barron
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The party continued on at Rock Center Café, where the
kids woofed down Scooby snacks, watched the Rockefeller Center skaters, and
a wonderful time was had by all.
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Bloomberg Is Mayor
But Trump Is New York
Photos by Rob Rich
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Dance is as light and as whimsical as its name. The ladies dress in the
prettiest colored dresses (ban those black ones!), their loveliest jewels,
and a lighthearted spirit for a serious occasion.
Dawn Zimmerman founded the Children’s
Development Center of the Hamptons in loving support of her son Jon
who is autistic. The CDCH Charter School creates a nurturing and supportive
atmosphere for learning where each student is given the tools, confidence
and courage to reach for the stars.
Mayor Michael
Bloomberg was this year’s recipient of the Reach for the Stars Award,
which Donald Trump presented.
It was funny to hear
the two men ribbing about how much of New York is named for them!
In the end, it was a standoff of equal value to these two men who are
quintessential New Yorkers.
Melania Knaus, the beautiful supermodel, was
escorted by her favorite date Donald. Mayor
Bloomberg came with this bodyguards and advance team.
Acclaimed restaurateurs B. Smith and Dan
Gasby, Dr. Larry and Sandy Rosenthal, Michelle and Frank
Rella, Dennis Basso, Michele Herbert, and some 400 others crowded into
the Pierre ballroom. The
dedicated and caring Jane and Michael Petrycki co-chaired the
event and did so much to ensure its enormous success.
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Beacons of Light
Photo by Rob Rich |
Beacons of Light
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month, a poignant memorial for the six-month anniversary of the World Trade
Center disaster. To mark the
date, a whole day of ceremonies was held in Lower Manhattan.
Thousands came to mourn and remember that fateful day in September
when the world stood still and evil went on a rampage.
The six months since that time have been awful and
awesome. An equal mix of
something purely evil being balanced by the very best of mankind.
In a moving tribute to the dead and the living, two
enormous Twin Towers of Light came to life on March 11.
They will stand as beacons of hope and inspiration to all who see
them in the night sky, reaching towards the heavens to all the souls resting
at peace there.
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Catherine
Saxton has been a part of the New York
social and celebrity scene for
the past 25 years.
She has worked with Presidents, Kings and Princes,
plus celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Grace
Kelly,
Donald & Ivana Trump, Madonna, and on, and on.
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