The
Hamptons International Film Festival and Elle Magazine kicked off their Summer Premiere Series
with a special
screening of Hustle & Flow and a glam-slam dinner
that had everyone talking at the brand new Madame Tong’s
in Southampton.
Hustle & Flow, written and directed by newcomer Craig
Brewer, was a breakout hit at Sundance, winning the Best Picture
Audience Award, and selling for the highest amount of any film in
Sundance history. The film stars Terrence Howard (also brilliant
in Crash, currently in release) as a Memphis pimp who longs to become
a rap star.
Terrence Howard and co-star Anthony Anderson dazzled at the screening
and mixed it up at the dinner afterwards, amongst a crowd who all
fell in love with the super-hip film and its magnetic stars.
Among those hustling and flowing on this celebrated evening,
chaired by Cinema Society founder Andrew Saffir,
were Star
Jones (who boogied
with Terrence and Anthony well into the night), Rick and
Kathy Hilton,
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’s Thom Filicia
and Ted Allen,
model Ines Rivero, Reed and Delphine Krakoff, Richard Meier,
Debbie Bancroft, Nina Griscom and Leonel Piraino, that not-so-secret Mr.
and Mrs. — Terry Allen Kramer and Nick Simunek,
Daniel Benedict, Marjorie Gubelmann Raein and Reza Raein, Helen and
Tim Schifter,
Dennis Basso, Bettina Zilkha, Douglas Hannant and Frederick Anderson,
Judy Licht and Jerry Della Femina, Tinsley and Topper Mortimer,
Todd Meister, the B-52’s Fred Schneider, Olivia
and Alex Chantecaille, Jodi and Jessie Della Femina, Jeffrey Slonim,
Harry Lefrak, Greg
Calejo, Jhane Barnes, Alvin Valley, Leslie Stevens, Jackie Astier,
Charles Evans and Bonnie Pfeiffer, Cindy Adams, Robert Zimmerman,
Morris and Jaci Reid, Gigi Stone, Santiago Gonzales, Jonathan Cheban,
Lauren Ezersky, Anand Jon, Luke Parker Bowles, Jean-Luc Kleefield,
Elle’s Nina Garcia and Robbie Myers, and the Hamptons Film
Festival’s Denise Kasell and Jeff
Sharp.
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