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ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
Frolicking Under Big Top
In Memory Of Rita Haworth
Story by Edward T. Callaghan
Photos by Rob Rich
 ALA Chairwoman Nancy Corzine
and her top-draw committee pulled out all stops for the 20th
anniversary of the Alzheimer's Association Rita Hayworth
Gala.
Always one of New York's most glamorous
events, this year's celebration, themed Beauty Under The
Bigtop, delivered on its promise tenfold. As well, the
fabulous fete raised over $1.7 million.
The party draws a heady mix of Hollywood,
New York society and royalty. This year's event with its
internationally famed honorees doubled the stakes: Princess
Yasmin Aga Khan, founder of the gala, named for her late
mother, was honored with the Alzheimer's Association
Lifetime Achievement Award and California's First Lady Maria
Shriver was saluted with the Alzheimer's Association
Awareness Award presented to her by Barbara Walters.
The red carpet arrival area was a
paparazzi's delight with a bejeweled, begowned and
black-tied collection of the city's most fashionable. The
atmosphere was filled with squeals of delight as friends
reunited and traditional air kissing gave way to warm hugs.
Pouring into the Waldorf-Astoria Grand
Ballroom bedecked with a dreamy, surrealistic circus décor
were Caroline Kennedy and husband Edward
Schlossberg, Eunice Shriver, newlyweds Hilary Geary and
Wilbur Ross, Cornelia and Marty Bregman, Joan Collins,
Denise Rich, Tommy Hilfiger, Vera Wang, Joan Rivers, Donna
Dixon Aykroyd, Peter Boyle, Margo and John Catsimatidis,
Claudia Cohen, Somers and Jonathan Farkas.
Also Deborah and Allen
Grubman, Anne Hearst,
Kimberly Rockefeller, Susan and John Hess, Deborah Norville
and husband Dr. Karl Wellner, Prince Michael of Yugoslavia,
Felicia Taylor, Dennis Basso, Michael Cominotto, Bryant and
Hilary Gumbel, Nurit Kahane Haase, Michele and Larry
Herbert, Andrea and John Stark, and Allison
and Leonard Stern
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