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A dinner honoring Sir Sean Connery and Lady Connery to benefit the Returning Veterans programs of Friends of Scotland charity.
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| FoundCare is the foundation that is building Palm Beach County’s newest community health center for the uninsured and underinsured (a staggering 225,000 children and adults). Grace and Chris Meigher hosted what in PB is called a “town sweep” drinks party at Club Colette for it. The evening included a fashion presentation by the edgy Ports 1961 collection, in conjunction with Saks Fifth Avenue. Among the hundreds of guests- Ports 1961’s Jacqui Wenzel and Tony Alcindor, Kate Gubelmann, Felix Mirando, Susan and Dom Telesco, Robbi and Bruce Toll who along with Lyn and Dan Lerner have made substantial gifts to the FoundCare Capital Campaign, Cynthia Boardman with her son Sam and her sister and brother-in-law Jane and Michael Horvitz, who have endowed the health center’s Wellness Garden (designed by Mario Nievera) in memory of Cynthia and Jane’s much loved parents Honey and Leighton Rosenthal, designer Steven Stolman (now also FoundCare’s Director of Development), Frannie Scaife and Tom McCarter, Polly Onet, Lydia Crozier, Jean Tailer, Robert Janjigian and Tom Cahill, M.A. and Chip Quinn with daughter Liz, Talbott and Jack Maxey, Amb Edward and Susie Elson, Tommy Quick with his sister Mary, Betsy Turner, Brett Price, Jackie and Beau Breckenridge, Jack Young, Alex Snyder Arnold Scaasi and Parker Ladd, Peggy and Rodney Dillard, Sandy Thompson, Hilary and Wilbur Ross, Susan and John Wanamaker-Leas, Barnette and Ken Druskin, Jim Sugarman (FoundCare’s Chief Development Officer), Candy and Bill Hamm, Mai Harrison and her daughter Cornelia Ercklentz, Broadway press agent Peter Cromarty, Victoria and Minot Amory, Susan and Tim Malloy, Palm Beach restaurateur Michael McCarty and Nancy and Jeffery Smith. A town sweep if there ever was one. |
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| This past Tuesday night in New York, Hennessy Cognac hosted a dinner with Baroness Veronique Bich honoring Sir Sean Connery and Lady Connery to benefit the Returning Veterans programs of Friends of Scotland charity. Earlier in the evening, Sir Sean cut the ribbon in a ceremony officially opening “Alba House”, the purpose of which is to house and showcase Scottish culture, art, fashion, and more. Afterwards, invited guests left Alba House to convene at the Georgian Suite for the private seated dinner for 30. The dinner celebrated the “Auld Alliance” between France and Scotland – and the modern alliance too, as Hennessy’s Laurent Boidevezi noted the French House of Hennessy’s support of this very Scottish evening to benefit Friends of Scotland’s returning Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The private dining suite was decorated with Tartan fabrics from various clans draping the sconces, the piano, and one contiguous banquet table. The evening started off with a Ruinart champagne and Hennessy Pillow Talk cocktail reception and lots of Hennessy X.O on a Rock. Guests were treated to a private concert by world renowned Scottish violinist, Nicola Benedetti who is currently touring the United States. Meanwhile, there was a real Scottish surprise – as the young Scotsman Andrew Weir “Addressed the Haggis” in a suitably dramatic fashion. Everyone clearly was a Scotophile – not one person asked what the haggis was and everyone ate it heartily, even the French, or in Susan Shin’s case, the Korean! Matthew Modine saluted Dr. Geoffrey Scott Carroll, Executive Director of Friends of Scotland, for putting him “back in touch with [his] Scottish roots”. Animated by Sir Sean’s exuberant laughter, energy and charming conversation, excited guests spontaneously toasted and roasted each other. There also were tributes to the returning war veterans to Scotland and to Sir Sean, hailed most eloquently by Matthew Modine and an equally moving return tribute from Sir Sean to Mr. Modine. Sir Sean enthralled the guests with insights into his favorite films and directors and behind the scene anecdotes from his own films including the James Bond movies. Baroness Bich gifted tartan and jeweled bracelets to the guests. Not to be outdone, Hennessy Cognac presented each guest with a gift bag containing a crystal snifter and mini X.O bottles, and a precious bottle of rare PARADIS cognac, aged 130 years. |
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Last Thursday night in Los Angeles, Daniel Peres, editor-in-chief and Chris Mitchell, VP/Publisher of Details Magazine hosted a party at the Brentwood home of Mary Parent to celebrate the second annual Details “Mavericks” issue. “Mavericks” is a list of the 27 most innovative thinkers in the worlds of media, entertainment, politics and technology. The idea is that unconventional thinking meets daring enterprise – “Mavericks bending the future to their will, unafraid of criticism or ruffling a few feathers – shaping aspects of our lives that we didn’t even know existed.” A tall order, wouldn’t you say.
Among the guests at the Parent residence were Ben Silverman, Bill Paxton, Brett Ratner, Chris Klein, Damon Dash, Danny Masterson, David Spade, Debi Mazar, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kristin Cavallari, Luke Wilson, Maria Menounos, Michael Vartan, Milo Ventimiglia, Nick Cannon, Randy Jackson, Ryan Seacrest, Sarah Wynter, Stacy Keibler, and Thom Filicia. |
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| Photographs by Lucien Capehart (Ports 1961); ©Patrick McMullan (Hennessy). |