Birthdays, Cinemas, and Neighborhoods

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Donna Karan's Surprise Birthday Party.

They held a Surprise Birthday party for designer Donna Karan at The Box last Thursday night. I don't know what they told her to get her to go to The Box in order to pull of the surprise, but I'll bet it was something like: "let's go to the Box for your birthday." And she was the first one out the door to go. You would (might) be too.

Carlos Mota, and Alex Kramer

David Furnish and friends

Donna Karan amongst friends

Jackie Astier and friend

Steven Klein and friends

Sandy Gallin, Donna Karan, and Gabby Karan De Felice

George Wayne and Donna Karan

Nadine Johnson

Lehua Chong and Joey Jalleo

Simon Hammerstein and Alan Cummings

Lehua Chong and friends

Linda Horn and friend

The scene inside The Box

The Cinema Society and Nars hosted a dazzling screening of The Women, the remake of the now legendary 1939 bitch-slap classic. The new film was updated and directed by Diane English (the Emmy award winning creator of “Murphy Brown”) and features an all-star, all-female cast including Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bette Midler and Debi Mazar. All were present at the screening and the party which followed on the Private Roof of the Gramercy Park Hotel.

Cinema Society founder Andrew Saffir welcomed a glittering group that included Mick Jagger and L’Wren Scott, Julia Stiles, Barbara Walters, Valentino, Jill Hennessy, Epatha Merkerson, Alexie Gilmore, Candace Bushnell, Lisa Lampanelli, Clive Davis, Nora Ephron and Nick Pileggi, Ana Gasteyer, Lonny Ross (“30 Rock”), Kelly Klein, Carol Alt, Maggie Rizer, Ryan Lochte (US Olympic Swim Team), Irina Pantaeva, Dennis Basso, Denise Rich, Karen Duffy, Ghislaine Maxwell, Derek Blasberg, Yigal Azrouel, Daniel Benedict, Olivia Chantecaille, Sharon and Lauren Bush, Valesca Guerrand-Hermes, Cornelia Guest, Nina Griscom, Debbie Bancroft, Olivia Palermo, Tiffany Dubin, Bettina Zilkha, and producer Victoria Pearman.

Eva Mendes and Andrew Saffir

Jill Hennessy and S. Epatha Merkerson

Eva Mendes

Bette Midler

Alexie Gilmore

Carol Alt

Julia Stiles

Lisa Lampanelli

Barbara Walters

Dennis Basso and Michael Cominotto

Genevieve Bahrenburg and Olivia Palermo

Maggie Rizer

Nikki Haskell and Clive Davis

Ryan Lochte

Cornelia Guest

Diane English and Victoria Pearman

Debi Mazar

Denish Rich

Jackie Astier, Peter Davis, and Bettina Zilkha

Lauren Bush and Andrew Saffir

Meg Ryan, Mick Jagger, and L'Wren Scott

Valentino Garavani

Ana Gasteyer

Valesca Guerrand-Hermes

Irina Pantaeva

Jennifer Creel

Jada Pinkett Smith

Karen Duffy

Kelly Klein

Lyle Maltz and Ali Wise

L'Wren Scott

Olivia Chantecaille

Rachel Roy

Sharon Bush

Yigal Azrouel

Nina Griscom and Leonel Piraino

Spencer and Peyton List

A week ago last Thursday, Akris hosted a Fashion Presentation and Brunch at their store on 835 Madison Avenue, featuring their Fall/Winter 2008 Collection for supporters of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House’s Spring 2009 Gala.


	Martha McLanahan, Sydney Shuman, and Helene Tilney

The Gala is chaired by LNH’s board chair Diana Quasha, along with Honorary board chair Sydney Shuman, and Audrey Gruss, board member. The Spring Gala will be held at Sotheby’s on April 16, 2009.

Chairs of the upcoming event are (with list in formation) Diana Quasha, Sydney Shuman, Elizabeth Rohatyn, Honorary Board Chair; Audrey Gruss, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Board Member and Frances Beatty Adler.

Committee members include: Ingrid Edelman, Caroline Dean, Marianna Sabater, Kathy Angele, Eva Dillon, Wendy Cebula, Clo Cohen, Helene Tilney, Mary Snow, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Nancy Baker, Debby Farrington, Margo Langenberg, Marty McLanahan, Sandra Nunnerley, Margery Baker-Riker, Margot Takian, Martha Webster, Ann Barash, Daisy Rutherfurd, and Judy Zabar.

Support generated by this event benefits Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, which is dedicated to helping those in need who live, work, or go to school on Manhattan's East Side, primarily the Upper East Side, and to improving the quality of life for all individuals and families in its community.

Jamee Gregory and Audrey Gruss

Margot Takian

Serena Boardman

Kathy Angele and Diana Quasha

Lara Glazier, Kathy Angele, and Eva Dillon

Helen Bonebrake, Valerie Post, Mary Snow, and Ingrid Edelman

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