Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Senior Associate Luncheon at The Oak Room, The Plaza Hotel.

Also this past Monday, The Senior Associates Committee of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) hosted its 2009 Spring Lunch at The Oak Room in the Plaza. Sponsored by John Hardy, more than 100 guests attended including special guest, Guy Bedarida, Creative Director for John Hardy. John Hardy displayed unique one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces for guests to try on and purchase. The luncheon honored Dr. Jane A. Bowling, Director of Social Work at MSKCC and recognized the Senior Associates Committee for their incredible dedication to The Society’s mission of funding programs to help improve the quality of life for patients at the cancer center. Proceeds from the 2009 Spring Lunch kicked off a campaign for the Associates Committee to begin a special Pediatric Family Housing Endowment. This new fund will pay for overnight accommodation at a nearby hotel for families of pediatric patients undergoing treatment at MSKCC who are unable to afford this expense themselves. Among those attending: Leslie Heaney, Katie Colgate, Lisa Errico, Gretchen Gunlocke Fenton, Anne Grauso, Melanie Holland, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Christina Smith, Leslie Stevens, Guy Bedarida, Muffie Potter Aston, Monique Lhuillier, Nina Griscom, Victoria Hagan, Fruzsina Keehn, Hilary Dick, Amy Raiter Dwek, Kimberly Flaster, Annabelle Fowlkes, Jane Brickell, Denise de Luca, Melanie Holland, Rebekah McCabe, Alison Minton, Martha Vietor Glass, Eugenie Niven Goodman, Alexia Hamm Ryan, Paige Hardy, Shoshanna Gruss, Heather Leeds, Natalie Leeds Leventhal, Stephanie Loeffler, Lisa McCarthy, Eliza Nordeman, Dara O’Hara, Lisa Selby, Felicia Taylor, Mary Van Pelt, among others.

Adelina Wong Edelson

Anne Grauso, Leslie Heaney, Christina Smith, and Lisa Selby

Claudia Overstrom

Christina Smith and Melanie Holland

Chiara Edmand, Leslie Jones, and Leslie Heaney

Jennifer Creel and Katie Colgate

Denise DeLuca, Martha O'Brien, and Jim Brodsky

Dayssi Olarte De Kanavos

Christina Smith and Leslie Jones

Nina Griscom and Martha Glass

Margaret and Ursula Farrell

Eugenie Niven Goodman and Eliza Nordeman

Heather Severs, Amanda Taylor, and Christina Smith

Jill Brooke

Guy Bedariea and Dayssi Olarte De Kanavos

Kate Allen

Lisa Errico

Rebecca McCabe and Gretchen Gunlocke Fenton

Lionel Geneste

Gail Karr, Michel Witmer, Maryanne Greenfield, and Roger Webster

Jane Bowling and Melanie Holland

Heather Leeds

Kimberly Flaster

Laura Harris

Monique Lhuillier

Nina Richter

Paige Hardy and Debra Cole

Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss

Last Saturday night at Studio 40 Donna Karan hosted Hans Dorsinville's 40th birthday bash. Mr. Dorsinville is senior vice president, creative director at Laird + Partners who handle DKNY's advertising.

Erika Wohlert and Abbey Sheridan

Malcolm Stuart

Monica Pekala and Shequida

ELEW, Donna Karan, Hans Dorsinville, and Tanner Graham

Ross Bleckner and Donna Karan

Patricia Velasquez

Nina Sargent

Andy Williams

Adam Pawlowski and Morgan Silva

Alex Lundqvist, Sean Patterson, Mark Vanderloo, and Patrick McMullan

Can Yanartag

Merv Matheson and Nina Sargent

Emma Weinstein and Leila Yusuf

Jared Needle, Chris Carswell, Lance Tabanbax, and Naomi Azuna

Kenny Young and Delta Kamal

Patricia Field

Douglas Hannant, Deborah Hughes, and Frederick Anderson

Maggie Han

Bonnie Morrison and Bonnie Young

Liam McMullan

Ellen Havtenariam and Semhar Tessay

Kelly Framel and Greg Kessler

Jesse Kile and Bec Stupak

Gucci hosted "Erased James Franco" at the Museum of Modern Art also this past Monday.

Klaus Biesenbach and Rosalie Benitez

Dave and James Franco

Martha Wainwright and Klaus Biesenbach

David Braucher and Lawrence Schwartz

Leslie and Miles Levy

Doug Franco and CJ Conroy

James Franco, Daniella Vitale, and Carter

Nate Lowman

Terrance Koh

Jen Brill

Ahna O'Reilly, Jared Seliger, and Dave Franco

Miles Levy and Amy Putnam Hite

Phillipe Vergne, Rosalie Benitez, and Glenn Ligon

Take me back to Manhattan, Take me back to New York. I'm just longing to see once more My little home on the hundredth floor! Can you wonder I'm gloomy? Can you smile when I frown? I miss the east side, the west side, the north side, and the south side. So take me back to Manhattan, That dear old dirty town! From “Anything Goes” By Cole Porter Again, on the jammed packed New York calendar this past Monday night, the Roundabout Theatre Company held a big band-themed gala, Take Me Back to Manhattan, at Roseland Ballroom. Hosted by Nathan Lane, the evening included a VIP reception, dinner, live auction and star-studded performance. Kathleen Marshall staged the musical revue that boasted songs from Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington and the Gershwins. Among those who lent their talents to the performance were Audra McDonald (110 in the Shade, Ragtime), Kelli O'Hara (South Pacific, Light in the Piazza), Boyd Gaines (Gypsy), Denis O'Hare (Assassins), Martha Plimpton (Pal Joey, Coast of Utopia), Brooke Shields (Wonderful Town), Jane Krakowski (Nine, Damn Yankees), Mario Cantone (Assassins) and Katie Finneran (Noises Off).

Nick Adams

Nathan Johnson and Laura Osnes

Nathan Lane

Sarah Paulson

Julie White

Lorin Latarro

David Grindley

Martha Plimpton

Matthew Broderick

Kathleen Marshall

Cynthia Nixon

Lily Rabe and Jason Butler Harner

Richard Thomas

Mario Cantone

Edie Falco

Eddie Izzard

Laura Osnes

Doug Hughes

David Hyde Pierce

Bill Irwin

Cheyenne Jackson

Jeff Kready

Steven Weber

Brooke Shields

Blair Brown and John Glover

Audra McDonald

Last Monday night at the Wollman Rink in Central Park, after a very rainy day in New Yor, David and Joyce Dinkins, Terry and Tina Lundgren and Donald and Melania Trump hosted the 2009 “Skating with the Stars” honoring Tai Babilonia and Michelle Paige Paterson at a benefit gala for Figure Skating in Harlem. Among those attending were: Dorothy Hamill, Johnny Weir, Jeremy Abbott, Sarah Hughes, JoJo Starbuck, Todd Eldredge, Kimmie Meissner, Evan Lysacek, Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukov, Timothy Goebel, Alyssa Czisny, Viktor Petrenko, and other Olympians. It turned out to be a great night for skating surrounded by the New York skyline and the forests of Central Park.

Anwar Robinson

Dorothy Hamill

Johnny Weir

Star Jones

Evan Lysacek and Todd Eldredge

Michelle Paige Paterson and Terry Lundgren

Rod Gilbert and Judy Christie

Former Mayor David Dinkins, and Joyce Dinkins

Tamara Tunie and Ice Skaters

Tai Babilonia and Johnny Weir

Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov

Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto

Out Southampton Way. The Paul Koster Memorial Benefit, which raises funds for higher education and trade school scholarships for local high school graduates, teamed up with The Have A Heart Community Trust, which provides relief to East End residents in times of crisis, at the 9th annual “Casino Royale” extravaganza. On Saturday, March 28 in Southampton, Jean Mackenzie, whose husband Paul Koster was tragically killed when a tractor fell on him as he was helping a neighbor pull out a tree stump, welcomed hundreds of supporters to the fun-filled night of gaming, dancing, and fine fare which also served as the debut of her new event space, Four Seasons Caterer, Southampton.   Paul Koster Jean and her daughter Mackenzie Koster greeted Southampton’s popular mayor Mark Epley and his wife Maryann, author Dr. Bob Zellner and his wife Linda, interior designers Barbara Fox and Neno Rosa of Fox Rosa, Lisa Jackson, Campion Platt and his wife Tatiana, Rona Landman, Dr. Kevin Plancher, and Jeanine Zeiring and her son Nathaniel, as well as Victoria and Bill Wright, Stephanie Deppe, Paton Miller, Karen Beinowiscz, Joanne Zarras, Geraldine French, Mary Slattery, Have a Heart founder Rose Dios, Sarah Bradford , tea guru Tracey Stern, and Heather Fyfe  to name just a few good samaritans  who came out to help their community. Guests purchased raffle tickets to win a wide range of prizes from Tiffany & Co. and J. McLaughlin gift certificates to a one-week Mexican getaway. An iconic Hamptons family, the Kosters were painted four times by their friend, the legendary and much missed Larry Rivers - who swore by the Clamman and its fresh seafood. Paul Koster was an avid fan of local sports teams who were supported by the Southampton Youth Association. A beloved local figure, Koster could always be found on the sidelines cheering for the children and providing food for the team’s year-end parties. He opened The Clamman in 1982 on North Sea Road and it quickly became Southampton’s top seafood spot; selling fresh fish, homemade sauces, soups and other tasty takeout dishes. The Kosters also provided catering services to their clients and became a wholesaler to the area’s best restaurants. Realizing that the demand was growing and that the parties were becoming bigger, Jean Mackenzie launched Four Seasons Caterer in 2000 and has fed everyone from Steven Spielberg and Gwyneth Paltrow to Mariah Carey, Dana Hammond and the Hearst clan. Last year, Mackenzie purchased the space that housed the famed restaurant John Duck, a village staple for decades, on Prospect Street in Southampton. She renovated and transformed the 19th century farmhouse, that in the 1920’s was a charming old school bed and breakfast, into an airy, open oasis that opens to a gardens and a lush lawn suitable for tenting The venue,20which features the original fireplace, will play host to private and public events - from weddings and galas to weekly lobster nights and wine parings. This Easter Sunday, Four Seasons Caterer, Southampton will open to the public with their first-ever Easter Egg Hunt and a family friendly buffet created by their noted chef Jeremy Palmer with 20 culinary selections, including their famous seafood, carving and pasta stations, and a decadent dessert table.  Local jazz favorite Jim Turner will perform and guests are encouraged to bring canned food items to donate to The Human Resources of the Hamptons.

Mark Epley and Jean Mackenzie

Jack and Kathleen Murphy with Louise and Bill Kortin

Valerie Hanley and Patricia Lynch

Victoria and Bill Wright

Jenna Ingram, Palmer Dalogrias, and Skylar Borucke

Evan and Laurie Tiska

Melissa Dexter, Christine Iverson, and Tara Duffy

RandyLynn McManus, Maria Bruno, and Stephnie Raia

Elbi Askin

Rona Landman

Linda Miller-Zellner, Dr. Bob Zellner, and Jean Mackenzie

Barbara Fox and Neno Rosa