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 Concerts, premieres, and idea festivals
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Soweto Gospel Choir at MANDELA DAY: a 46664 Celebration Concert at Radio City Music Hall. |
| The Mandela Day Concert, "A 46664 Celebration" at Radio City Music Hall, was a tribute to celebrate the 91st birthday of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, the former South African leader whom Whoopi Goldberg, host of the evening, called “the world’s classiest man.” |
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Suzanna Owiyo |
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Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Themba |
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Thandiswa Mazwai |
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Jesse McCartney |
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Mike Albergo |
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James Pickens, Jr. |
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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Dave Stewart |
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Duncan Spencer and Alfre Woodard |
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Tom Joiner |
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Josh Groben |
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Lil Kim and Cyndi Lauper |
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Sipho Mabuse |
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Gloria Gaynor |
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Forest Whitaker and Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Morgan Freeman |
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Billie Jean King |
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Cyndi Lauper |
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Jesse Clegg |
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Tim Massey |
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Wycleff Jean |
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Will.i.am |
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This past Thursday at Cinema 2 there was a Special New York Premiere of “The Answer Man,” a romantic comedy starring Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham.
Afterwards there was a dinner at the Core Club. Among those attending were the two stars, Daniels and Graham, along with Lou Taylor Pucci, Tony Hale, John Hindman, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, Alan Alda, Bob Balaban, Jonathan Demme, Marcia Gay Harden, John Patrick Shanley, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Michaelle Caruso-Cabrera, Ron Claiborne, Stanely Donen, Jeff Greenfield, Zach Grenier, Robert Klein, Matthew Modine, Martha Plimpton, Rosanna Scotto and Frank Whaley. |
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John Hindman, Lauren Graham, Jeff Daniels, Lou Taylor Pucci, and Tony Hale |
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Heather and Frank Whaley |
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Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel |
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Henry Schleiff |
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Kate Jennings Grant |
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Jeff Greenfield |
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ZO2 |
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Zack Grenier |
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Marion and Rosanna Scotto |
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Nathan Gunn |
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Jeff Daniels |
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Sarah Jones |
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Michael Musto |
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Robert Klein and Jennifer Swibel |
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Roger Friedman |
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Ron Claiborne and Audrey Wu |
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The Atlantic and The Aspen Institute held their fifth annual celebration of ideas with the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival.
The event gathered more than 175 leaders from the fields of arts, science, culture, religion, philosophy, economics and politics, exploring “ideas that work” — describing and discussing proven, innovative solutions to challenging problem.
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| Mike Nizza, Corby Kummer, Jay Lauf, Scott Stossel, Susanna Stossel, and Henry Tam |
| Speakers included Google CEO Eric Schmidt; Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry; US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and former colleague Sandra Day O’Connor; former US Secretaries of State James Baker, and Madeleine Albright; former McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin; former US Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff; economist Hernando de Soto; neuroscientist Antonio Damasio; Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman along with leading journalists such as Andrea Mitchell, Jim Lehrer, Bob Schieffer, Maria Bartiromo, James Fallows, Michael Kinsley. |
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| Dana Perino |
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| Eric Schmidt |
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| Steve Cannon |
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| Gerard Kleisterlee |
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| Eli and Edye Broad |
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| Michael Eisner |
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| Beth Brooke |
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| James Fallows |
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| Elizabeth Baker Keffer and Marvin Odum |
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| Andrew Sullivan |
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| Ta-Nehisi Coates and Larry Wilmore |
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| Sandra Day O'Connor |
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| Lynda Resnick |
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| Susan Rice and james Bennet |
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| Walter Isaacson |
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| Jeff Goldberg |
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| Bob Schieffer |
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| Leonard Lauder |
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| David Bradley and Michael Chertoff |
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| Anna Deavere Smith |
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| They held the world premiere of "Homecoming" at the MGM screening room last Thursday night with a party following at the Pink Elephant. |
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James Francis Ginty and Sarah Bradford |
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Eric West |
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Jamie Johnson |
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Carter Unger and Sarah Bradford |
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Andrea and Austin Stark |
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Andrea and John Stark |
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Ashley Stark |
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Austin Stark, Morgan J. Freeman, Bingo Gublemann, and Benji Kohn |
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Sean O'Pry and Nole Marin |
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James Francis Ginty and Michele Gerber-Klein |
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DJ Erick Lapeau and Jamie Jo Harris |
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Anthony Grant and Delaina Dixon |
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Brittany Mendenhall |
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Austin Stark, Renee Lucas, and Jeffrey Karp |
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Ashley Krupin and Lev Ekster |
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James Francis Ginty, Christina Amoroso, and Natalie Goncharova |
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Victoria Stevens, Alexander Wolf, and Renee Lucas |
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Ashley Krupin and Jamie Jo Harris |
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Eleanor Banco and David Chines |
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Matt Gohd, Wendy Diamond, and Nole Marin |
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Emerson Bargh, David Lipke, and David Chines |
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