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Barbara
Goldsmith, Walter Isaacson, and Ann Richards at last night's
Aspen Institute's 20th Annual Awards Dinner
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It
was somewhat cooler yesterday in New York, overcast, looking
like rain that eventually turned to a soft and constant mist.
A
lot going on in Manhattan last night. Over
at the Plaza the Aspen Institute held its 20th Annual
Awards Dinner, paying tribute to their 2003 Leadership
Honorees: Kofi Annan, Secretary-General
of the UN, Robert E. Rubin, Secretary
of the Treasury under Bill Clinton and Patty
Stonesifer, president and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation
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Congresswoman
Jane Harman and friend
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William
Mayer, chairman of the Aspen Institute was joined
by Walter Isaacson, President and CEO
of the Institute along with Frederick B. Whittemore,
dinner chairman; the Honorable Ann Richards and Mort
Zuckerman, Dinner co-chairs.
This black-tie dinner draws a very distinguished crowd. Queen
Noor, Dr. Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State
under Mr. Clinton was there along with Mr. and Mrs. David
Boies, Susan Braddock, Henry and Wendy Breck, Gov. Gaston Caperton,
the Honorable Henry Catto and Mrs. Catto, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Dawkins,
Judy and Avery Corman, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Crown (Mr. Crown
is vice chairman of the Institute), Jack Valenti, Gail Hilson,
Ambassador Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel,
Zoe Baird, Congresswoman Jane Harman (D- Ca.), Senator
Gary Hart, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Sugar Rautbord, Cathy Isaacson,
Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems, Harley Baldwin, Barbara
Goldsmith, Christopher Walling, Michael Kinsley, Mr. and Mrs. Mel
Karmazin, Nancy Bass, proprietress of the Strand Bookstore; Tom
Kranz, Connie Milstein, Ellie and George Munroe, Ann and Bill Nitze,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert MacNeil, Nina Rosenwald, and Dr.
and Mrs. Cliff Wharton were among the more than 200 guests
for the evening.
Ann
Richards serves as emcee of the Insitute’s dinner.
This (wildly) popular lady who now makes a good part
of her living giving speeches all over the nation, has
become New York’s most prominent new (part-time)
citizen (dividing her time between here and Austin and
all points east, south, north and west). She was at the
Library Lions last night, and somewhere in between she
lost her voice. Although the show must go on, and it
did; what was lost in the verbal delivery was compensated
for by the bright eyes and warm smiling flashing.
The Aspen Institute Global Leadership Award (awarded this year to
Kofi Annan) “reflects the expanding international scope of
the Aspen Institute, bestowed upon a leader on the world stage who
successfully promotes the ideals of global peace, intercultural understanding,
and wide-spread human progress that are critical to the mission of
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Amb.
Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
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Donna
and Robert MacNeil
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Jack
Valenti and Ann Richards
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L.
to r.: Gary Hart; Ann Nitze; Dolores and Dr. Cliff
Wharton, Hon. Madeleine Albright, and Robert Rubin.
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Amy
Margerum, Gerald Levin, and Laurie Perlman
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Terry
and Mel Karmazin
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Shashi
Tharoor and Olara Otonnu
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We
left the Aspen Institute evening after the cocktail hour and
hoofed it around the corner to Holland & Holland over on
Fifty-seventh and Park where the Associates Committee of the
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House were holding a cocktail party
before their “Autumn Adventure” dinner and dancing
over at “21.”
En route we passed by Bergdorf’s with its beautiful, always
changing windows by the brilliant Linda Fargo, we
noticed they were holding a book party for Odile Gilbert hosted
by Karl Lagerfeld, Linda Wells and Ron Frasch. |
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Frances
Schultz and Diana Quasha
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Mark
Gilbertson and Mary Van Pelt
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Nancy
Sambuco and Laura Darrin
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Farther
down the avenue at Cipriani 42nd Street, HBO
Films was holding a dinner after the New York Premiere of “Angels
In America” starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, and Emma
Thompson, directed by Mike Nichols with
screenplay by the playwright, Tony Kushner.
This was a very glam event with a gues tlist including Mr.
Nichols, Mr. Kushner, Cary Brokaw, Mr. Pacino,
Ms. Streep, Ms. Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey
Wright, Justin Kirk, Ben Shenkman, Patrick Wilson and James
Cromwell. For starters.
Mr. Nichols was also at the Library dinner the night before with
his wife Diane Sawyer. Off-camera, even away from
the lights, Ms. Sawyer was looking more glamorous than ever in a
black two-piece silk trimmed in black lace, looking beyond stunning.
She looks more like a movie star than any movie star I’ve seen
in a long long time, with a face so beautiful that at first I forgot
whom I was looking at. Gawsh and Golly-gee, what’s to become
of a sappy fan like me? |
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night at Joe's Pub at Joseph Papp's New
York Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street at Astor Place),
La Maja Flamenco (Kim Akhtar and her
Group) performed. Ms. Akhtar was joined by Natalya
Brillante, dancer; Carlos Revollar and Enrique
Lopez on guitar and singers David Castellano and Chayito
Champion. The very international and enterprising
Ms. Akhtar is Lebanese/Indian, educated in England and
by day serves as executive assistant to Dan Rather.
La Maja Flamenco will also perform next Tuesday, November,
same place, two shows at 6:30 and 8 PM. |
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| Robin
Hurley and Mark Magidson and St. Ann's
Press held a cocktail reception in honor of Neil
Leifer and his new book Neil Leifer: Portraits at
Mickey Mantle's restaurant last night on Central Park
South. |
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