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Richard
Lenny and Blair Effron at The
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
gala.
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Jamie
Drake at a launch party for Jamie
Drake’s New American Glamour.
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Darren
Raymar, Hilary White, and Damon
Santiago at a launch party for Jamie Drake’s
New American Glamour.
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The New
York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is the world’s oldest child protective agency. They’ve
been operating for 130 years.
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Neil
Friedman and Dr. Mary Pulido
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That’s the bad news – that there has been the need for
them; and the good news – that there are always at least some
out there who care for the children. Because it’s been more
than a century of trail-blazing child protection and abuse prevention,
more than a century of working in and amongst the court system, more
than a century of creating and implementing mental health programs;
more than a century of conducting investigations of a child’s
home and community environment in order to provide attorneys and
courts with critical information, and more than a century of promoting
healthy
parenting through guidance, research and education.
Today the NYSPCC is led by the dynamic Dr. Mary Pulido. Here
is a world filled with with heart-wrenching stories, amazing professionals,
courageous and charitable people and a huge dose of promise.
Two week ago they held a benefit fund-raiser at the Pierre for the
organization. Lester Holt was emcee and honored Marlo
Thomas, National
Outreach Director of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
and Neil Friedman, president of Fisher-Price with
their “Strength
of Our Society” Award. |
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Dana
Schiff, Karl Wellner, Elizabeth Bartlett, Neil Friedman,
Marlo Thomas, David R. Stack, and Caroline Gerry
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Robert
Douglas and Whitney Miller
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Gary
Weiss, Suzie Michaelson, and Paula Silver
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Neil
Friedman, Amanda Friedman, and Al Kahn
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Kimberly
Smith and Christy Taylor
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Betsy
von Furstenberg
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Richard
and Susan Lenny, Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue, and Mary and
Roy Zimmerman
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Richard
Lenny and Blair Effron
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Neal
Shapiro and Lester Holt
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Angela
Friedman, Phil Friedman, Neil Friedman, and Amanda Friedman
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Not
a week goes by, sometimes not a day goes by when
a New York interior designer isn’t launching ... a new book.
A little more than a week ago Jamie Drake joined
the club with his Jamie
Drake’s
New American Glamour surrounded by 400 friends and fans at
Pace Prints on East 57th Street.
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Jamie
Drake and Mayor Michael Bloomberg
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Mr. Drake’s gorgeous coffee table book is, like his interiors,
like no other’s. Not a one. If you’ve ever seen Jamie
Drake – and you must have seen him at least in photographs
because he gets around – he’s an exemplar of you are
what you wear. Those Crayolas his artist ma gave him when he was
a kid?
He ate ‘em for lunch, breakfast, and dinner. He loves color.
And where others embrace beige or black or greige and err on the
side of the safe, this man looks like even his frappucinos must come
in day-glo colors. Forget daring, he just goes for it. His publicists
call it lush, high-wattage eclecticism.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a long time fan and client, and
although he’s not mentioned in the book, at least a couple
of his rooms are. He was at the party as was his Deputy Mayor Patricia
Harris,
art consultant Michel Witmer, the beautiful Parisian
antiquaires
Ariane Dandois and her daughter Ondine de
Rothschild. So was interior
designer and gallery owner Tony Ingrao, and Alexandra
Penney, Jason Witcher, Sharon Hoge, Mallory and Roy Kean, Alison
Mazzola, Stephen
Jacoby, Arthur Dunham, Melissa Berkelhammer, Jay Johnson and Tom
Cashin, Michèle Gerber Klein, Jason Grant, Heather Cohane
and her son Alexander Cohane who now has a thriving
antiques business in England. Also Karen Teves, Stephen Sills and James “Ford” Hunniford,
Maryann Restivo, Mark Epstein, Lauren Ezersky, Charlie Scheips, Robin
Bell, Mark Langrish, Pilar Viladas, James Reginato, and Nancy
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From
Jamie
Drake’s New American Glamour. Click images to
order.
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Pace Prints Gallery created a vignette to bring the book to life,
featuring vintage furniture from the 1890’s to the 1950’s,
including a Russian gilt chair, a coral lacquered chinoisserie
cocktail table, a pair of Eames stools covered in orange lizard
and a mink throw from Ralph Lauren draped over a cream colored
couch. On the peach and tangerine walls were paintings by Francis
Bacon, Frank Stella, and Chuck Close. |
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Emma
Snowdon-Jones and Mark Langrish
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Sharon
Hoge
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Jamie
Drake
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Cator
Sparks and Susan Saas
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Ariane
Dandois, Lennie Maerkle, and Ondine de Rothschild
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Paula
Busch and Diane Dunne
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Mark
Epstein and Ronda Cohen
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Liz
Nightingale, Georgia Fleming, and Betsy Boggs
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Tony
Ingrao, Karen Teves, and Michel Witmer
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Stephen
Jacoby, Charlie Scheips, and Yale Wagner
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Vivian
Christophier, Jay Johnson, and Susan Johnson
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Darren
Raymar, Hilary White, and Damon Santiago
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Melissa
Berkelhammer
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Mallory
and Roy Kean
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Lauren
Ezersky
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Heather
Cohane and Charlie Scheips
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Frances
Hayward
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Jay
Johnson and Tom Cashin
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Jason
Witcher and Michèle Gerber Klein with a friend
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Maryse
Livoti and Harry Heissmann
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Two
weeks ago, Maybelline kicked off the opening of its new Beauty
Studio with an invitation-only party for some of the city’s
most influential women, recognizing their support of the Big Apple.
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Erin
Wasson, Kristin Davis, Tomiko Fraser, and Troy Surratt
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The star-studded celebration included appearances by celebrity host
and Emmy-nominated actress and Maybelline spokesmodel Kristin
Davis and a special performance by Australian pop sensation Delta
Goodrem, the international singer/ songwriter with multiple platinum albums
to her credit along with seven #1 hits around the world.
Among the celebrity guests were: Global Celebrity Makeup Artist Troy
Surratt, Law & Order actress Tamara
Tunie, models
Erin Wasson and Tomiko Fraser. Among the influential New York City
women who took part in the kick-off were Founder and Director of
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center Alanna Heiss, President of LaGuardia
Community College Dr. Gail Mellow, U.S. Olympian Ashley
Holzer, Manhattan
real estate entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran and co-founder of the design
label Libertine Cindy Green.
The Maybelline New York Beauty Studio is located at 461 Fifth Avenue
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Ashley
Holzer, Kristin Davis, and Jane Holzer
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Tomiko
Fraser and Frederick Anderson
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Cheryl
Vitali, Karen Fondu, and Leela Petrakis
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L.
to r.: Troy Surratt, Karen Fondu, Erin Wasson, Kristin
Davis, Tomiko Fraser, Cheryl Vitali; Sarah Brown and Lois
Johnson.
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L.
to r.: Gregory Generet and Tamara Tunie; Cheryl Vitali,
Kristin Davis, and Karen Fondu; Delta Goodrem, Kristin
Davis, and Tamara Tunie.
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L.
to r.: Cheryl Garnier, Karen Fondu, Tamara Tunie,
Delta Goodrem, Kristin Davis, Ashley Holzer, and Dr.
Gail Mellow; Kristin Davis and Troy Surratt.
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The
Thursday before last over at the Crystal Room at the Tavern on the Green, Capuchin Food Pantries auctioned
off celebrity artwork at the 6th Annual Doodle for Hunger.
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LeRoy
Neiman, Bill Gallo, and Fr. Francis Gasparik
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There were signed works by celebrities including Bette Midler,
Yoko Ono, Billy Joel, Whoopi Goldberg, Nicky Hilton, Robin Williams,
Jesse
L. Martin, Carol Burnett, Lauren Bacall, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam
Waterston, Jay Leno, Phil Collins, James Gandolfini, Donald Trump,
Jodie Foster, the late Jerry Orbach and many others.
Orbach was a long time doodle participant this year’s event
was held in his memory as well as honoring the cast of Law & Order. Attendees had a chance to bid on an original portrait of Orbach by
New York Daily News Sports Cartoonist, Bill Gallo who was also honored.
Capuchin Food Pantries are run by the Capuchin Franciscan Friars and are administered centrally out of the Capuchin Mission office
in midtown. They are frun by volunteers and have six additional
locations in Harlem, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx , and Long
Island. The
Pantries help feed, clothe and distribute diapers and other essential
toiletries to more than 3000 families every week in New York. Over
a million meals are also served by them annually. Full time social
workers are also available to serve their clients needs.
The event was hosted by Fox 5’s Ernie Anastos. Celebrity auctioneers
were Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby of
WABC radio’s popular show
Curtis and Kuby in the Morning. |
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Ernie
Anastos
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Bill
Gallo and Rod Gilbert
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Epatha
Merkerson and Elaine Orbach
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Curtis
Sliwa, Rick Wester, and Ron Kuby
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by Clint Spaulding/PMc (NYSPCC); Jonathan Grassi/PMc (Drake); Patrick
McMullan (Maybelline); Howard Wechsler (Doodle). |
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