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Southern Comfort
"When I think of the south, I think of sitting on the porch in a rocking chair and drinking iced tea," said Jennifer Connelly at the premiere of her latest southern flick, Virginia, hosted by the Cinema Society, Shiseido, and Grey Goose at the Crosby Street Hotel. In this semi-autobiographical drame, Academy Award winning writer and director Dustin Lance Black of Big Love and Milk fame, skips the tradition of lackadaisical porch time and lemon-flavored Lipton in favor of downhome heists, illicit affairs, crooked cops, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and her son in a small Boardwalk town below the Mississippi.
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Hip Hicks
Though a layer of dew and drizzle ruled (and sometimes rued) the week's weather forecasts, the atmosphere inside the Crosby Street Hotel Thursday night wasn't dampened in the slightest. A stylish crowd assembled for a screening of Hick hosted by Cinema Society and Phase 4 Films, including the film’s stars Chloë Grace Moretz and Rory Culkin, director Derick Martini, writer Andrea Portes, producers Teri Duke-Moretz, Trevor Duke-Moretz, Charles de Portes, and Christian Taylor. Guests flocking to SoHo to check out the coming-of-age story included Emma Roberts, Charlotte Ronson, Fern Mallis, Kieran Culkin, Shaun White, Matthew Settle, Russell Simmons, Ben Rappaport, Pablo Schreiber, and Aaron Carter.
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All Hats Are On!
What does it take to raise $6.5 million dollars? If you're the Central Park Conservancy, you just throw a lunch. On Wednesday afternoon, the organization celebrated the 30th Anniversary of its now-famous Frederick Law Olmstead Awards luncheon, and despite a mild mist, the mood inside the tent erected inside the Conservatory Garden was relentlessly sunny.
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Part and Parsons
What happens when alums, current students, and fashion industry adorers of Parsons The New School convene on Pier 60 for an annual ball to toast the upcoming grads, showcase a select few's designs, and laud the former students who've gone on to do some pretty major moving and shaking? Well, a delightful interpretation of black tie, for starters. The latest Parsons Fashion Benefit, which honored Donna Karan and Sheila C. Johnson, kicked off with cocktails in sync with the sunset—which, in the confines of a massive glassy sunroom dappled with students' designs at the tip of the pier, warrants a pair of shades to prevent unsightly squinting and/or careening into fellow benefit goers (duly noted for the next bash at the space).
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Getting Lucky With (Well, Near) Efron
The latest Nicholas Sparks film adaptation, The Lucky One, brought out those in need of a good misty-eyed romfest and/or an eyeful of a grown-up, jacked-up Zac Efron at last eve's Cinema Society and Men's Health screening of the flick at the Crosby Street Hotel.
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'Safe' In Chelsea
The world premiere of thrilling action flick Safe injected Monday night with an electrifying dose of adventure, impressive combat scenes, and copious amounts of bloodshed amid the streets of NYC, courtesy of The Cinema Society, Lionsgate, and TW Steel. The Jason Statham-helmed film brought out a flock of thrill seekers to Chelsea Clearview Cinemas, including writer and director Boaz Yakin, cast Matthew O’Toole, Robert John Burke, Jay Giannone, Reggie Lee, Catherine Chan, Danny Hoch, Joseph Sikora. The fashion set included Erin Fetherston, Rachel Roy, Harper's Bazaar's Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill, Patrick Demarchelier, and Dree Hemingway; also on the premises were Shaun White, Ice-T and Coco, Marlon Wayans, Padma Lakshmi, Olivia Palermo, and Nora Zehetner.
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Ferragamo on Fifth: The Renovation Must Be Celebrated!
After an entirely too-long period of renovation, the Ferragamo flagship on Fifth finally re-opened its doors Thursday night, and the fash-noscenti appeared in droves to properly commemorate the event. The Ferragamo famiglia was out in full force—Massimo and Chiara, for starters, along with Daily fave James Ferragamo, who designs the shoes and handbags worn by most of the women in the room.
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New Yorkers for Children Recap: The Fool's Fete's Best Moments, Discussed!
For the first year in many, your Daily fell ill on the eve of the New Yorkers for Children's annual Fool's Fete, and instead of donning a spangled thing and cavorting at the Mandarin Oriental, she laid herself up on the sofa and read the stream of emails and texts from those gracing the 36th floor gallroom. "It feels just like prom!" wrote one fashion publicist. One of her colleages likened it to cheerleading tryouts, with (mostly) longer skirts. But regardless, the 2012 affair drew one of its beauty-filled crowds thus far, with Zac Posen (et Coco Rocha and a newly-blonde Crystal Renn) only one of the designers with a few darlings on his arm. (The evening's sponsor, CD Greene, had a veritable army of them.) Meanwhile, over $580,000 was raised for the charity, which offers a wealth of programming for New York City children in foster care. Without further ado, some awards—discerned solely from pouring over the BFA photos, of course:
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Who Let the Dogs Out?
Diamonds might be a girl's best friend, but Beth Stern prefers her pooch, thank you very much! Last night, Howard Stern's other half rounded up a litter of orphaned pups from North Shore Animal League America to attend the premiere of Darling Companion, hosted by The Cinema Society and Rachael Ray Nutrish with Grey Goose Cherry Noir. The tail-wagging canines screened the film at the Tribeca Grand Hotel along with its leading man Kevin Kline cuddling with his co-star (Kasey the Dog, not Diane Keaton or Dianne Wiest, in case you were wondering). Other animal-friendly attendees included Gerard Butler, Hope Davis, Rob Morrow, Jennifer Esposito, Russell Simmons, Mad Men's Bryan Batt, Bill Skarsgard, John Patrick Shanley, Olivier Theyskens, Tara Subkoff, Katie Lee, Ty Pennington, Hal Rubenstein, Amy Sacco, Daniel Benedict, Tim Morehouse, and Fern Mallis. Bark twice if you love a pet parade!
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Girls, Girls, Girls
How much did your Daily want to love Girls, as in the show as well as the quartet of leading girls, before last night's New York premiere of the show hosted by HBO avec The Cinema Society? Oh, so much. Luckily, the first three episodes of the witty, wry, and perfectly imperfect half-hour HBO show, aired at the SVA Theater in Chelsea, more than delivered on the hype.
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