Blythe Danner

Cokie Roberts

Idina Menzel

Lisa Edelstein

Last Thursday night at Lincoln Center, Save the Children celebrated its 75th  anniversary of service to children and families. The evening paid tribute to President George H.W. Bush, President William J. Clinton, and Melinda Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for their global humanitarian work and support of Save the Chldren and its programs which reach 12 U.S. states as well as more than 50 countries worldwide. Robert Daly and Former President Bill Clinton Samuel L. Jackson was Master of Ceremonies. Throughout the evening Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars told their inspirational stories through music and dance. The All Stars are a group of talented musicians who were forced to flee their homeland of Sierra Leone during its horrific civil war. They provided a stirring musical interpretation of life in the refugee camps, the horrors of war, and the universal need for peace. The SLRAS’s story has been documented in an award winning film that debuted this summer on PBS. Who was there: Presidents Bush (Sr.) and Clinton, Mrs. Gates, Mr. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Drew Carey, Mischa Barton, Ellen Barkin, Edie Falco, Blythe Danner, Robert and Eva Cavalli, Cokie Roberts, Deepak Chopra, Christopher Plummer, Idina Menzel, Anna Deavere Smith, Liza Edelstein, Charles MacCormack, President and CEO of Save the Children, Mark Kennedy Shriver, Vice President and Managing Director of Save the Children’s US Programs.

Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson

Bill Frist with wife Karyn

Drew Carey and friend

George H.W. Bush, Melinda French Gates, and Charles MacCormack, CEO and President of Save the Children

Mark Shriver and Blythe Danner

George H.W. Bush, Ana Ligia Mixco Sol de Saca, and Melinda Gates

Martha DeLaurentiis, George Bush, Melinda Gates, and Roberto Cavalli

Marc Ecko

Robert Daly, Bette Midler, Doctor Deepak Chopra, and Carole Bayer Sager

Edie Falco

Mischa Barton and Roberto Cavalli

Julianne Moore and Samuel L. Jackson

Women’s Wear Daily called it the most celebrity-filled night of the Summer. Indeed, the Cinema Society’s screening of The Good Night was a stargazer’s paradise. Crowds packed the street outside the East Hampton movie theater for a look at the swarms of A-listers that turned out for Jake Paltrow’s feature film directorial debut, starring his sister Gwyneth. The film received raves from the boldfacers in attendance at the Wall Street Journal-sponsored evening. Cinema Society founder Andrew Saffir welcomed a crowd that included Chris Martin, Ed Burns and Christy Turlington, Billy and Katie Lee Joel, Paul McCartney, Stella McCartney, Barbara Walters, Kate Capshaw, Christie Brinkley, Blythe Danner, Donna Karan, David Geffen, Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber, Dina Merrill and Ted Hartley, Cliff Robertson, Ingrid Sischy and Sandra Brant, Rashida Jones, Dick Cavett, James Lipton, Dan Abrams, Bob Balaban, Lauren Bush and David Lauren, Ross Bleckner, Candace Bushnell, Hana Soukupova, Jill Rappaport, Sandy Gallin, Richard and Sessa Johnson, Rosanna Scotto, Kathy and Rick Hilton, Daniel Benedict, Todd Meister, Valesca Guerrand-Hermes, Marjorie Gubelmann, producer Donna Gigliotti and the Wall Street Journal’s David Wachtel and Andrea Norlander. Following the screening, the stars headed to an intimate dinner and were joined by Mariah Carey, Jon Bon Jovi, Brooke Shields, Molly Sims, Lori Singer, Andre Balazs, and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. Starry night indeed.

Billy Joel

Daniel Benedict

Barbara Walters

Cliff Robertson

Christy Turlington and Ed Burns

Andrew Saffir and Jake Paltrow

Andrea Norlander and Jeffrey Sharp

Bob Balaban

Christie Brinkley

Candace Bushnell

Desiree Gruber and Kyle MacLachlan

Annabel Kim, Jodi Della Femina, and Charlie Kim

Jaime Murray and Dan Abrams

Dick Cavett

Donna Karan

Kathy and Rick Hilton

Marjorie Gubelmann and Valesca Guerrand-Hermes

Lauren Bush and David Lauren

Ross Bleckner

Richard Johnson and Sessa von Richthofen

Rosanna Scotto

Rashida Jones

Stella McCartney

Dina Merrill

Gwyneth Paltrow

Hana Soukupova

Katie Lee Joel

Kate Capshaw

Kedakai and James Lipton

Meredith Ostrom

Sandy Gallin

Sandy Brant and Ingrid Sischy

Todd Meister

Toast to the Great Ladies – Benefits Rogers Memorial Library Foundation Ginger Pennington wearing Style Paris by Susan Sutherland The courtyard at 28 Jobs Lane was the sun drenched setting for a Toast to the Great Ladies of the Hamptons – Then and Now. New to the Hamptons French couturier Style Paris by Susan Sutherland and Nancy Stone, president of the Rogers Library Memorial Foundation co-hosted a champagne reception which featured Houses of the Hamptons co-author Gary Lawrance giving a talk about the mistresses of the magnificent houses of the Gilded Age in Southampton from Louise Hobbs Livingston to Millicent Rogers. Nancy Stone spoke about the radical changes in the role of great ladies and their social activism in using their homes for luncheons, cocktail parties and fabulous balls to benefit worthy causes. The tiny shop was filled with many of the new wave of hostesses including Melanie Wambold who this year co-chaired the Southampton Hospital gala and Sara Hebert Galloway, co-chair of the Help for Orphans cocktail and auction. Ginger Pennington in a strapless black velvet by Susan Sutherland looked as if she had just stepped out of a Sargent portrait. Throughout the reception there was informal modeling of Susan Sutherland’s evening and day wear from her fall collection. In salute to the Paris based designer, several of the ladies were dressed in her timeless classics including Nancy Stone, Maggie Wilson and Melanie Wambold. The season’s hot item is a pea coat blazer in Loro Piana cashmere.

Allison Levine and Jeanine Becker

Christine and Lisette Perelle

The evening benefited the newly founded Rogers Memorial Library Foundation whose mission is to enhance the quality of the free association Library’s services to the community by securing resources to support library programs and projects not normally met by public funding. Sipping the Hillinger Rose Prosecco from Austria generously donated by Herbert & Rist were Linda Schaller, Dennis Basso, Kristi Witker and Dick Coons, Imogene Willis and Tony Palmerio, Liz Derringer, Jeanine Edington, sisters Christine and Lisette Perelle, Gregory D’Elia, Allison Levine, Janine Becker, Diana Sadowski, Pamela Willoughby, Diane Corey, Eric Schwartz, Kimberly Strong, Nicole Garaone with Zachary Tunick, Janet Macri, Janice Sharp and Hamptons.com’s Nicole B. Brewer, and Robert Florio.

Dennis Basso and Nancy Stone

Gregory D'Elia and Melanie Wambold

Kimberly Stone and Debra Rothberg

Christine Perelle and Diane Corey

Kristi Witker Coons and Sara Herbert Galloway

Jeanine Edington and Robin Schiff

Susan and Ann Madonia

Lisette Perelle, John Wegorzewski, and Christine Perelle

Vanessa Leggard and Judy McDowell

Diane Sadowski and Sara Herbert Galloway

Janice Sharp and Janet Macri

Gary Lawrance and Leonard Bart

Melanie Wambold and Linda Schaller

Christine Perelle and Eric Schwartz

Zachary Tunick and Nicole Garaone

In the Courtyard on Jobs Lane

Maggie Wilson, Nancy Stone, Susan Sutherland, and Ginger Pannington

Dr. Martin and Nancy Stone

Lisette Perelle

Leonard Barton and Pamela Willoughby

Melanie Wambold, Ginger Pannington, Gary Lawrance, Nancy Sutherland, and Susan Sutherland

Nicole Brewer, Nancy Stone and Robert Florio

Photographs by ©PatrickMcMullan.com (The Good Night).

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