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There
were movie stars, and Oscar winners, and supermodels, and
rock and rollers, and a large contingent of New York’s
hipsters and most glamorous flocked to the Tribeca Grand for
what turned out to be, in retrospect, one of the most coveted
invites of the holiday season — the Cinema Society exclusive
screening of DreamWorks Pictures release of Woody Allen’s
latest — “Match Point.”
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Scarlett
Johansson and Woody Allen
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The film is
a dramatic thriller about ambition, the seduction of wealth,
and sexual passion. It premiered to rave reviews in
Cannes earlier this year, and is being hailed as one of Woody’s
all-time best, garnering 4 Golden Globe nominations for Best
Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting
Actress (Scarlett Johansson).
Woody himself and the film’s stars Scarlett Johansson,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, and
Matthew Goode, all were on hand along with Cinema Society founder
Andrew Saffir, for
the screening and dinner which followed at the Soho Grand.
Everyone involved was the object of accolades and raves from
the attending
glitterati. It was a love-fest tribute to an enormous talent.
Ironically, the prolific writer/director gave an interview
to a British paper in which he described himself as “mediocre.” Contemporary
film, American or internationally, should have such mediocrity. |
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Jonathan
Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen, Andrew Saffir,
Emily Mortimer, and Matthew Goode
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The
crowd itself was so stellar that many were comparing it to a Golden
Globes, or even the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Celebrities
and boldfaced names everywhere you looked. Alongside Woody and
the film’s cast were Bette Midler, Alec Baldwin,
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Patricia Clarkson, Marcia Gay Harden, Josh
Lucas, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Daniels, The Sopranos’ Michael
Imperioli, Josh Hartnett, supermodels Helena Christensen,
Liya Kibede, Bridget Hall, and Gemma Ward, Michael
Stipe, Chazz Palminteri, Matthew Modine, Damon Dash and Rachel
Roy, Alessandro Nivola, Amy Sacco, Rufus Albemarle, Daniel Benedict,
Amanda Brooks, Olivia Chantecaille, Jennifer Creel, Emilia Fanjul,
Peter and Jamee Gregory, Marjorie Gubelmann Raein, Jill Kargman,
Jane Lauder, Tinsley Mortimer, Marisa Noel Brown, Marina Rust,
Marielle Safra, Allison Sarofim, Helen Schifter, Ivanka Trump,
Bettina Zilkha, Hogan's Samantha Gregory and Emanuele
Della Valle, DreamWorks’ Pictures Diana
Loomis, and the film’s producers Letty Aronson and Gareth
Wiley.
The evening was sponsored by Hogan, and benefited Martin Scorsese’s
Film Foundation. It was one of those nights that even the most jaded New Yorkers
will not forget for its high profile audience witnessing a legendary director’s
triumph. Only in New York! |
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Helen
Lee Schifter
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Bridget
Hall
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Bette
Midler
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Allison
Sarofim
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Emilia
Fanjul Pfeifler
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Gemma
Ward
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Helena
Christensen
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Amy
Sacco
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Ivanka
Trump
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Jill
Kargman
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Chazz
Palminteri and Gianna Ranaudo
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Daniel
Benedict
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Damon
Dash and Rachel Roy
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Willem
Dafoe
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Euan
Rellie
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Jennifer
Creel
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Liya
Kibede
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Marina
Rust Connor
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Marielle
Safra
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Olivia
Chantecaille
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Tinsley
Mortimer
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Jeff
Daniels
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Jamee
Gregory and Emanuele Della Valle
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Josh
Lucas
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Marcia
Gay Harden
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Marjorie
and Reza Raein
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Michael
Imperioli
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Matthew
Modine
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Michael
Stipe and Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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Patricia
Clarkson and Andrew Saffir
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Philip
Seymour Hoffman
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Rufus
Albemarle and Bettina Zilkha
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Scarlett
Johansson
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Alec
Baldwin
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Amanda
Brooks
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Alessandro
Nivola and Emily Mortimer
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Last
week The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical
America hosted an exhibition, holiday cocktail party,
and benefit auction at McKim, Mead and White's Landmark, the Racquet
and Tennis
Club at 370 Park Avenue.
Key sponsors for the event were Taconic Builders and SellJewelry
Inc. The evening included both a live and silent auction, the
live auction of which was conducted by Christopher Gaillard of
Sotheby’s.
The silent auction included a comprehensive look at classical expression
today in its full diversity, including drawings by Jaquelin
Robertson, Robert Wilson, and Anton Glikin; a model of The
Temple of Four Winds, Castle Howard by Timothy Richards; a wrought
iron chandelier by Les
Metalliers Champenois; a watercolor sketch by Victor Deupi and an
architectural snow globe from Ferguson and Shamamian Architects.
Also on view were photographs, lithographs and drawings by Adrienne
Vittadini, John Beerman, David Genther, James Bleecker, and Jeffrey
Bilhuber. Full proceeds will assist the Institute in expanding
its national program of design education, advocacy and appreciation
for
the classical tradition, including an affordable housing partnership
with Habitat for Humanity. |
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Kate
Rheinstein, Alex Brodsky, Gil Schafer III, and Suzanne
Rheinstein
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Cathy
Clay and John R. Neal
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Courtney
Coleman and Bill Brockschmidt
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Bill
Brockschmidt,
Paul Gunther, and Seth Weine
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Kerri
Stichweh and William Bates III
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Thomas
Gordon Smith, Frank McCrery, Anton Glikin, and George
Kelly
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Suzanne
Santry and Christopher Gaillard |
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Top: Model
of the Temple of the Four Winds. Above: Auction items. |
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Nathan
Royce Silverman and Jamie Gibbs
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Princess
Melba Ruffo di Calabria, Victor Deupi, and Marie So-Lange
Ladenius Clark
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Randy
Bourscheidt and Helen Tucker
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Peter
Pennoyer, Betsy Shiverick, Paul Shiverick, and Katie Ridder
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Miguel
Flores-Vianna and Adele Chatfield-Taylor
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Tony
Freund, Sarah Medford, and Miguel
Flores-Vianna
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Jeffrey
Bilhuber and Suzanne Rheinstein
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Alan
Rogers, Judy Auchincloss, and Sean Driscoll
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Amy
and Kevin Buccellato
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Nick
Stern, Matthew Tirschwell, and Vincent Tyler
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Anne
Fairfax and Richard Sammons
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Miguel
Flores-Vianna and
Suzanne Santry
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Pat
Sorenson and Robin Bell
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Marcy
Masterton and Lloyd Zuckerberg
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Joanne
Berritt, Carol Lane, and Carlo Maria Mariani
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Barbara
Sallick and Joseph Polar
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| Photographs
by Billy Farrell/©Patrick McMullan (Cinema Society). |
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