Safe At Home

Clockwise from top left: Yansi Fugel, Illana Raia, and Sharon Domaleski; Dr. Dan Smith and Dr. Andrew Pecora; Laurie Hamm and Shalom Russo; Donna Nicholson, Dawn Kraft, Jayanne Tedesco, and Anita Buchakjaian.

Mario Buatta, Honorary Showhouse Chair of The Designer Showhouse of New Jersey, was a lecturer at this year’s luncheon to benefit The Maureen Fund for the Prevention and Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer at The Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center. The luncheon took place on Tuesday, October 16th at the Showhouse, located 19 Werimus Brook Drive in Saddle River. Special guests included Senator Richard J. Codey and WOR Radio personalities Joe Bartlett and Donna Hanover.


Mario Buatta, Mary Higgins Clark, and Senator Richard Codey

The Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center aims to reduce the number of women developing ovarian cancer with the Division of Gynecologic Oncology’s Maureen Fund for Ovarian Cancer.

The Maureen Fund was founded to support a comprehensive effort to prevent ovarian cancer in high risk patients, detect the disease in its earliest stage, and find cures for patients with advanced or recurrent ovarian cancer.

The Designer Showhouse of New Jersey, to benefit the Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, is a showcase for America’s premier design talent.

Approximately 20 top interior and landscape designers from New York and New Jersey turned an American Colonial Revival at 19 Werimus Brook Road in Saddle River, provided by Richard Conboy of Yorkshire Homes into a decorating masterpiece. (201) Magazine was this year’s Preview Party Sponsor, The Prestige Family of Fine Cars was the Exclusive Automotive Sponsor, and Clive Christianand DUXIANA were the Design Sponsors.

Jill Joyce and Geraldine Nuckel

Dr. Andrew Pecora, Bob Torre, Donna Hanover, and Joe Bartlett

Last Friday night Joe Torre hosted his 5th Annual Safe At Home Gala at the Chelsea Piers. There were Yankees on hand, past and present as well as Bob Costas as MC and Billy Crystal and Bruce Springsteen entertaining. Also attending were Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Hideki Matsui.

Joe, as the world now knows, is becoming manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. At this time, he and his wife Ali, who co-founded the Safe At Home Foundation with him, have no plans to move there permanently.

The Safe At Home Foundation was conceived to educate children about domestic violence, something Torre knows first hand from his own childhood. It is an opportunity to save other children from growing up in an abusive household as he did. The Foundation has opened 10 school-based initiatives -- called "Margaret's Places," in honor of his mother -- throughout New York City and Westchester County. The objective is to provide students with a haven in school where they can meet with a professional domestic violence counselor.

Each "Margaret's Place" costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to operate over a three-year period. That’s where the fund-raising comes in. It is a great success, but they need to keep working at it in order to subsist and to grow.

This year's gala also was linked with a live online auction, which will run until Nov. 16 on joetorre.com [3]. Items for sale include a Hawaiian vacation complete with a golf outing with Torre, a South African safari and a meet and greet with rock star Jon Bon Jovi.

Ali and Joe Torre

Don Mattingly and Joe Torre

Diana Taylor and Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Don Zimmer and Ali Torre

Stanley Tucci Sr. and Stanley Tucci

Bob and Jill Costas

Billy Crystal

Derek Jeter

Miss New York, Lori Donaudy

Warner Wolf

Lee Mazzilli

Paul O'Neill

Steve Kroft

The Atlantic magazine celebrated its 150 anniversary at a big party last Thursday night.

The hosts included: James Bennett, Christopher Buckley, P.J. O’Rourke, Boykin and Celerie Curry, Michael Hirschorn, Arianna Huffington, Moby, Georgette Mosbacher, Azar Nafisi, George Stephanopolous, Andrew Sullivan, Governor Bill Weld and Tom Wolfe.

Among the guests: Kurt Andersen, Iris Apfel, Thom Browne, Amanda Burden, Joan Buck, Robin Byrd, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Nick Denton, Griffin Dunne, Jonathan Farkas, Cody Franchetti, Meera and Vikram Gandhi, Malcolm Gladwell, Brad Gooch, Michael Gross, Rebecca Guinness, Alanna Heiss (PS1), drag king Murray Hill, Warren Hoge, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Walter Isaacson, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Sonny Mehta, Daphne Merkin, Norman Pearlstein, Dale Peck, Reno, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Rockefeller, Robert Silvers, Anna Deveare Smith, ABC's John Stossel, James Traub, Ultra Violet, and Bettina Zilkha.

Patti Smith performed.

Dana Vetter, Moby, Nicholas Graham, and Justin Smith

Erzen Krivca, Anita Sarko, Eames Yates, and Pam Taylor

Alycia Oliphant, Roy Sekoff, and Arianna Huffington

Citizen Reno

Elizabeth Keffer with Tom and Sheila Wolfe

Celerie Kemble, Boykin Curry, and Elizabeth Keffer

James Bennett, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Justin Smith

Carter Burden, Justin Smith, and Frederic Tuten

Chris Rovzar and Jessica Pressler

Marissa McFarker with Elizabeth Meyer and a friend

Dale Coudert

Patrice Ingrassia, Gerry Willis, and Nancy Smith

Azar Nafisi and friend

Jonathan Marder and Deb Cunningham

Lynn White

Carla Sinatra and James Ashton

Jill and David Carr with Jared Kushner

Governor Bill Weld and John Fox Sullivan

Jamie Curtis and Pamela Keogh

Aisha Cloud and Elizabeth Hazelton

Georgette Mosbacher

Anne-Marie Guarnieri and Ingrid Skjong

Jolie Hunt, Christopher Buckley, and Keith Kelly

Moby and PJ O'Rourke

The Cinema Society and Details Magazine hosted a star-studded screening of Gone Baby Gone recently. The film marks the directorial debut of Ben Affleck. It has received raves from critics, and is already being talked about as a possible Oscar contender. There are mesmerizing performances from Casey Affleck and Amy Ryan (who may very well be nominated for her performance as a neglectful, drug-addicted mother). Now, if you were to ask me if the previous sentences were written by a press agent, I would have to tell you that I’ve had some help, because I haven’t seen the film yet. However Mr. Saffir, the founder of the Cinema Society, is a good man at his craft and is known for his acumen and sense of things.

An invitation to a screening of The Cinema Society, which he founded a couple of years ago is one of the hottest tickets in town these days, and a must-go for a lot of the hipper (at least they like to think so) members of the social crowd as well as a healthy percentage of the Hollywood crowd that live here or visit and prowl the Big Town whenever they can. So put those two lists together and you have a potential lovefest. Put them together with Andrew Saffir hosting and you have a glamorous social event every movie fan would love, not to mention the social strivers on the prowl. You see a great flick, all in the warm and fuzzy company of these people and you finish off the evening with a good meal at a great restaurant, breaking bread with the best of them and very few of the rest of them.

Olivia Palermo

Patricia Clarkson

Steve Guttenberg

Andrew loves the stars and the stars love him back. As they should: he’s very good for business and he’s a first class gent. And shrewd to boot. Both Affleck brothers and Ryan were on hand for the screening of Gone Baby Gone at the IFC Center, as well as the party that followed in the Penthouse of the Soho Grand Hotel.

The Cinema Society founder played host to a more than pleasing list that included Sheryl Crow, Patricia Clarkson, Steve Guttenberg, Janine Turner, Rachel Hunter, Jake Paltrow, B-52’s Fred Schneider, Scissor Sisters’ Patrick Seacor, Beth Ostrosky, Milena Govich (“Law & Order”), Ben Shenkman, Alexandra Kerry, Maggie Rizer, Frederique Van Der Wal, Hana Soukupova, Julia Stegner, Alex Lundqvist, Johannes Huebl, Daniel Benedict, Kelly Bensimon, Jessica Joffe, Peter Som, Olivia Palermo, Eric Villency and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Tiffany Dubin, Marjorie Gubelmann, Elizabeth Lindemann, and Miramax President Daniel Battsek.

Ali Wise

Beth Ostrosky

Elizabeth Lindemann and Jackie Astier

Frederique Van Der Wal

Amy Ryan

Ben Affleck

Casey Affleck

Patricia Clarkson and Amy Ryan

Janine Turner

Rachel Hunter

Sheryl Crow

Fred Schneider and Scissor Sisters' Patrick Seacor

Hana Soukupova

Kimberly and Eric Villency

Andrew Saffir and Ben Affleck

Daniel Battsek

Daniel Benedict and Andrew Saffir

Daniel Benedict and Johannes Huebl

Kelly Bensimon

Milena Govich

Maggie Rizer

Alex and Keytt Lundqvist

Sessa von Richthofen, Richard Johnson, and Lucille McGovern

Taryn Simon and Jake Paltrow

Last Wednesday night at the Four Seasons restaurant, the French-American Foundation honored Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of AREVA and Patricia Russo, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, as the 2007 recipients of the Benjamin Franklin Award. Also receiving the Vergennes Award for 2007 was Ambassador Anne Cox Chambers in recognition for her longstanding support of the French-American Foundation.

Mmes. Russo and Lauvergeon were ranked the number one and number two Most Powerful Women in International Business by Fortune magazine in October of last year. Forbes magazine named both to its annual World’s Most Powerful Women list in the same year. Anne Cox Chambers was US Ambassador to Belgium under Jimmy Carter, holding the post from 1977 to 1981.

Michael Murphy, Laurie Harrison, Danielle Esteve, and Bernard Esteve

The French-American Foundation is the principal non-governmental link between France and the United States at leadership levels and across the full range of the French-American relationship. The purpose of the Foundation is to strengthen the relationship as a vital component of the trans-Atlantic partnership. This is accomplished through a variety of programs including conferences, professional exchanges, the Young Leaders program (of which Mme. Lauvergeon is a graduate) and policy programs. The Foundation was created in 1976. The current president is Nicholas Dungan who was elected in August 2005.