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Street
scene on 31st and 3rd Avenue. 7:45 PM.
Photo: JH.
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Guild Board of Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago hosted
an elegant evening under the stars for 300 of Chicago's corporate,
civic,
and philanthropic leaders at their first annual Lawn Ball Gala
on July 29th at The Saddle and Cycle Club. The event benefited
Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago and raised more than $50,000 for
the clubs.
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Cochairs
Laura Ferris Anderson, Katie Brickman, and Ellen
Nash
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Tiffany
& Co. presented "Keys for a Cause" which offered guests the
opportunity to win 40 extraordinary gifts from their
collection. Glass vitrines displayed Tiffany Blue boxes, filled
with treasures.
Guests enjoyed cocktails decorated with Tiffany Blue umbrellas
and danced to the music of the Rob Curtis Orchestra.
Following cocktails and croquet and bocce on the lawn, guests
moved on to a
three-course dinner in the ballroom and on to the dance floor
they flocked. As the evening winded down guests were treated
to cigars
courtesy of Bill Rancic.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago strive to inspire and enable all
young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances,
to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and
caring citizens. Juvenile crime, drinking, drugs, and victimized
youth skyrocket during those fragile hours after school and before
working families make their way home at night. The Guild Board
is committed to ensuring Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago have adequate
funds to serve the more than 18,000 young people throughout the
city of Chicago through their after-school clubs and child-care
facilities.
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Katie
Tingle, Sonia Neilson, and Melissa McNally
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Members
of the Boys & Girls Club of Chicago
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Margie
Block Stineman and Spencer Fischer
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Ellen
Nash and Roger Christman
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Katie
Brickman and Jamir Brown
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Margie
Block Stineman playing
croquet
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Noah
Isakson and Becca Coggins
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Katie
and Joseph Brickman
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Abby
Huizenga, Hilary Semple, and Susan Canmann
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Sam
and Jennifer Stout, George Mesires, and Elizabeth
Stuart Dyer
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Julie
O'Connor picking out a Tiffany treasure
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Randy
Burt, Michael Komansinski, Heather Evans, and Darby and
Tom Hillls
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Thomas
Tingle, Erin Hines, and Katie Tingle
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Patrick
Hitt and Kimberly Burt
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Angela
Haggie, Jennifer Gunning, Inga Stenta, and Wells Mullin
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Patrick
Wood Prince and Margie Block Stineman
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Blish
Connor and Meredith Wood Prince
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Laura
Ferris Anderson and Matthew Anderson
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Sophie
Bross and Melissa McNally
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Patty
Raynes hosted a Summer Nautical Picnic in honor of and
Douglas Hannant and a preview of his 2005 Resort Collection. The
luncheon was catered by the Clam Man and to go along with the
nautical theme, Patty named each table after her favorite ships:
The Nina,
The Pinta, The Santa Maria, The Elizabeth, The Viper Fish, The
Nellie, USS. Caine, and The Plymouth. About 100
guests from New York and Palm beach attended the luncheon.
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Diane
Lieberman and Haley Binn
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Elizabeth
Loomis
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Emilia
Fanjul, Lourdes Fanjul, and Ana Maria Perez
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Beth
DeWoody and Helena Martinez
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Elizabeth
Lindemann and Tiffany Dubin
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Melinda
Hackett, Bettina Zilkha, and Pamela Gross
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Serena
Bancroft and Ashley Raynes
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Julie
Frist and Cristina Greeven
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Frederick
Anderson and Somers White
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Lorraine
Bracco, Douglas Hannant, and Nicole Miller
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Elizabeth
Lindemann, Debbie Bancroft, Bettina Zilkha, and Patty
Raynes
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Dana
Taylor, Alex Kramer, and Lillian Stern
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Stephanie
Coleman and Marcie Pantzer
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Nicole
Miller, Mark Gilbertson, Stephanie Coleman, and Mai Harrison
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Matthew
Raynes, Debbie Bancroft, and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan
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Modeling
the Douglas Hannant collection
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Lourdes
Fanjul and Lillian Stern
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Frederick
Anderson, Dana Hammond, and Douglas Hannant
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The
pool
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Sienna
Miller
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By
the time you read this, Sienna Miller and Jude Law may well have settled back into their pre-nanny,
post-separation,
ever-lovin’, marriage-bound relationship. They certainly
have had enough friends trying to get them back together. Orlando
Bloom and his girlfriend Kate Bosworth orchestrated a reunion of
sorts at Fiat heir Lap Elkann’s exclusive, new sandy beach
hideaway in Punta Marano, on the jet-set Costa Smeralda. It is
called Playa Fiat and boasts a 4320-square foot swimming pool,
surrounded by deck chairs with the Fiat logo imprinted.
Orlando and Kate brought Sienna along, and who should show up,
but a penitent Jude, who’s already done his public mea culpas.
It seems that everybody but everybody wants to see them back together.
Even Sean Penn, Jude’s co-star in All
The King’s Men,
and Robin Wright-Penn whom Jude’s filming Breaking
and Entering with, are reported to have shown up in London at J. Sheekey’s,
urging the couple to reconsider their situation.
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Kate
Bosworth and Orlando Bloom
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We’re hearing that after their Fiat folderol, Bloom and Bosworth
and Miller and Law will be heading to Italy for the 62nd International
Venice Film Fest where Sienna’s Casanova and Orlando’s Elizabethtown will have their world premieres.
Speaking of premieres and film festivals, Gwyneth
Paltrow’s
latest picture Proof will bring her to the Toronto Film
Festival in September. The elegant blonde actress just wrapped Running
with Scissors with Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave,
Colleen Camp and
Kristin Chenoweth. She also recently shot a cameo
for Love
and Other Disasters with the much-in-demand Orlando Bloom.
And, most interest of all, she is perfecting her impersonation
of singer-songwriter
Peggy Lee for Have You Heard? a movie
based on the late George
Plimpton’s book about Truman Capote, in
which sundry friends and enemies, admirers and adversaries recall
Tru’s turbulent
career – as a writer and pop culture phenomenon.
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Gwyneth
Paltrow
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It
is being said that Paltrow’s performance eerily echoes
the look, the voice and the persona of the legendary Lee. She has
showcased her imitation of the imperious, platinum-mane Lee for
an audience made up of friends like Madonna and Guy Ritchie,
Kate Moss and Pete Doherty and Crown Prince Pavlos
and Princess Marie Chantal at the London hot spot Kabaret, which is owned by Ben
Elliot and Harry Beacher.
“She is amazing,” our source reports. “it is the best
Peggy Lee get up ever. She is considering making the Lee re-enactment
a weekly event (at Kabaret) and Madonna is urging her to take it
to Las Vegas.”
This
is not too likely to happen but or spies tell us that they heard
Paltrow is considering recording the act for a BBC special.
It would be a videotaped Kabaret with all her friends in the audience,
including the actresses who will portray Truman Capote’s
swan – fashion immortals of their day, in Have You Heard? Sigourney
Weaver as Babe Paley, Isabella Rossellini as Gloria
Guinness and Hope Davis as Slim
Keith. Rossellini was accompanied by her
daughter Elettra, the new face of the Bill
Blass ad campaign.
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Sigourney
Weaver
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An
old saw has it that “every dog has its day” and,
because our Pug, Beatrice, has been cast as Miss
Waffles, Richie
Berlin’s Pug, in Factory Girl, she’ll
be getting her fifteen minutes of fame. Since Bea will be attending
parties and
premieres in connection with her incipient film career, we thought
she should become accustomed to the red carpet.
With that in mind, we took Beatrice to the premiere of Must
Love Dogs at the Arclight in Hollywood where invited pooches
shared the spotlight with the film’s stars – Diane
Lane, Dermot Mulroney, and Stockard Channing.
Diane’s costar John
Cusack was unable to attend; he is on location in Bulgaria
filming The
Contact. But if Cusack was out of sight, he was not out of
mind, as Diane was very generous in her praise of her leading man,
calling
him “an answer to a prayer.”
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Diane
Lane
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The
canine chaos continued into the Arclight’s parking lot.
Surveying all the Frisky Fidos having fun, Dermot Mulroney opined, “I
should have brought my dog.” Also at the premiere party,
enjoying the four-legged fracas was Julian McMahon, star of the
TV series, Nip/Tuck, who’s just wrapped the independent
film, Prisoner, portraying a movie director who while scouting a prison
location for a film, is held prisoner.
As to the persistent James Bond rumors, Julian says
he’s
been told by those in charge of the James Bond franchise that he’s
on a “short list of two” as the next Agent 007. (The
Bond men have already told British hopefuls Clive Owen and Daniel
Craig the same thing. How very Hollywood.)
Julian
was utterly resplendent in a white Yves Saint Laurent suit, leading
us to ask whereby he came of his wonderful fashion sense. “From
my mother,” he said unhesitatingly. He went on to say that Lady Sonia McMahon was a one-time attache to Saint
Laurent and that his father, the late Sir William McMahon, was
once Prime Minister
of Australia.
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Clive
Owen
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Since the premiere party featured a lot of guest dogs, we wondered
if Julian was a dog daddy. It turns out that he is the owner of
two pooches, Ach and Orso, a
mix of German shepherd and Lab, which he rescued as foundling pups
from a dumpster in downtown L.A. Julian
said seeing all the pups caroming made him change his plans for
the remainder of the evening. Instead of going to the Tropicana
Bar, the Roosevelt Hotel’s trendy watering hole, he decided
he’d go home and take Zach and Orso for a swim in the pool.
He said, upon parting, “My ideal woman must love dogs.”
People say nobody walks in Beverly Hills. Well, we do. For instance,
since the Peninsula Hotel is just a hop-skip-and-a-jump from our
digs, we decided to saunter over to attend a swanky dinner party
there, having been invited by hot shoe designer Taryn Rose,
to raise awareness of the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
More about that later.
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Jodie
Foster
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As we walked past Saks Fifth Avenue, who should we see exiting
the store but Jodie Foster and her two children, Charles, 7,
and
Kit, 3. After a three-year hiatus,
the two-time Oscar winner is back in Disney’s Flightplan,
a high concept yarn about a mother on a plane whose daughter disappears
at 37,000
feet, but
can’t convince anyone that the little girl was ever aboard
the plane.
“A very hard film for me,” admitted Jodie. “It is hard
to play all that grief for 52 days. Although I play particularly
brave people, I’m not.”
We told her we had missed her on screen and asked her what she’s
been doing.
“I have two children. I made a lot of films when I was younger.
Now, I just want to make the ones I care about. And there aren’t
too many of these that come along as often.”
She is one of a handful of actresses who also directs. “That
what I’d really like to get back to,” she said.
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Robert
DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal
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In fact, she told us she’ll direct and likely
star in Sugar
Kings, a true story about a young lawyer who teams with an experienced
public interest attorney to take on powerful sugar barons who are
exploiting migrant sugar cane workers. Written by Ned Zeman and
Daniel Barenz and produced by Jane Rosenthal who is partnered with
Robert DeNiro in Tribeca Films for Universal Pictures, it is based
on Marie Brenner’s investigative report
published in Vanity
Fair, “In the Kingdom of Big Sugar,” detailing Alfie
and Pepe Fanjul’s founding of a Florida sugar empire
after escaping from Cuba in the wake of the Castro takeover. This
is
a compelling, complicated story and we will be writing more about
it in the future.
Finally, we learned that the ladies from Desperate
Housewives are
being periodically pampered with a portable spa, a 36-foot RV on
location on Wisteria Lane. The RV houses handmade silk curtains,
ultrasuede pillows, fresh flowers and a bottle of chilled Veuve
Clicquot, along with the means to provide facials, massages, spray-on
tanning and nail treatments. Such are the perks of starring in
a wildly successful television show. And a grand way for the producers
to thank the cast for all those Emmy nominations. We say, they
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