3.18.07: The whole town's around, and all over town

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The whole town's around, and all over town

The birthday scene at Marty Richard's apartment.

More birthdays. Marty Richards, the film and Broadway producer (“Chicago”) celebrated a birthday on Saturday a week ago at his palatial Upper East Side duplex overlooking the East River. Marty, one of the original Broadway babies, if there ever was one, has had a long and colorful and successful career as a producer. A once-upon-a-time kid from the Bronx with stars in those big eyes, he IS Mr. Show Business.

Which means if there’s gonna be a party, it’ll be a humdinger. And it was. Besides being a bigtime producer, Marty has also had years of experience as a bigtime party giver. He really opens up his house(s), lays out a superior spread, and fills the place to its gilted rafters. Everyone has a good time at Marty’s. If they don’t, it’s only because they aren’t there.

Hunt Slonem, Scheher Azade, and Rick Friedberg

Larry Rosenthal, Arnie Rosenshein, Larry Wohl, and Frank Rella

Dr. Joel Kassimir and Spencer Kassimir

Nina Goodman and Marty Richards

Elaine Orbach and friend

Carole Shelley and Jack Weatherall

Ted Miller and Randie Levine-Miller

Tom Puccio, Kathy Puccio, Michele Rella, Marty Richards, and Frank Rella

Steve Volita, Gwen Arment, Michael Milton, and Susan Hartley

Marlyne Sexton, Deeda Blair, and Nicole Sexton

Marty Richards, Catherine Saxton, and Mr. Hamburger (that's what we were told, really)

Michael Warren, Marty Richards, and Marcy Warren

Paola Rosenshein, Cornelia Bregman, Denise Wohl, Ramona Singer, and Michele Herbert

Carole and Todd Rome

Marty Richards, Bob Adler, and Deanna Adler

Lauren Day and Bob Roberts

Richard Soloway and Dame Donna Soloway

Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict

Tamara Tunie and Gregory Generet

Peter and Dana Catalano

Marty Richards and Kim Garfunkel

Marty Bregman and Denise Wohl

Lucia Hwong Gordon, Lyn Paulsin, and Jewell Jackson McCabe

Al David, Marty Richards, and Clint Mauro

Marty Richards and Jewell Jackson McCabe

Nikki Haskell and Elaine Kaufman

Debbie Bancroft and Somers Farkas

Kedaki and James Lipton

Meredith Valiando and Marissa Bregman

Nurit Haase and friend

Marcy Warren, Caroline Berthet, Michael Warren, Dan Gallagher, and Maria Teresa Fauci

Cornelia Bregman, L.Marilyn Crawford, and Maria Teresa Fauci

Frank Rella, Al Reynolds, Michele Rella, and Marty Richards

Ed Adler, Marty Richards, Scottie Ryan, and friends

Nick Raynes and Meredith Valiando

David Fiveson and Jewell Jackson McCabe

Geoffrey Thomas and Sharon Sondes

Brian Heir and friend

Ann Keating and Caroline Hirsch

James Nederlander and Margo MacNabb

Al Reynolds, Michele Rella, Maria Teresa Fauci, Marty Richards, and Star Jones

Sabet Hormoz with Kathy and Tom Puccio

The "Happy Wow Marty" birthday cake

Ann Dexter Jones, Marty Richards, Cornelia Bregman, and Marlyne Sexton

Frank and Michele Rella

Marva Hicks, Tamara Tunie, and Star Jones

Mario and Ramona Singer

Lonnie Youngblood

Hot Dog, anyone?

Bruce Richards, Michele Rella, Marty Richards, and Cornelia Bregman

Lonnie Youngblood and Sharon Wilkins

Gregory Generet, Marva Hicks, and Sharon Wilkins

Lucia Hwong Gordon and L. Marilyn Crawford

Chris Sheldon and Brenda Bressler

Marcy Warren and Elke Gazzara

Sharon Wilkins, Star Jones, and Marty Richards

Star Jones and Al Reynolds

Sara Galloway and Star Jones

Michael Milton, Deborah Craig, and Dan Gallagher

Judine Richard and Marty Richards

Judine Richard, Tamara Tunie, Marvet Hicks, and Star Jones

Gregory Generet and Frank Rella

Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) hosted its Premiere Spring Luncheon last week at the Pierre. The luncheon featured special guest speaker Karenna Gore Schiff, author of "Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America" (Miramax Books, 2006).

A mother, an advocate, a journalist, a lawyer and an author, Ms. Schiff values everything Planned Parenthood holds dear, especially women and their unique role in advocating for gender equality and social and reproductive justice. Also speaking was Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Foundation of America.

In attendance were: Joan Malin, President of Planned Parenthood of New York City, event Co-Chairs Eva Pomice Timerman, Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn, Leslie Harwood Ehrlich, Planned Parenthood of New York City Board Chair Laura Philips, and Board Members Nicole Wachter, Penny Levy, Peggy Danziger, Katie Danziger, Beth Rothenberg, and Mary Lindsay.

Cecile Richards and Joan Malin

Karenna Gore Schiff

Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn and Gary Cohn

Eva Pomice Timerman, Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn, Leslie Harwood Ehrlich, and Nicole Wachter

Lisa Rechler and Nicole Wachter

Lisa Beattie Frelinghuysen and Katie Danziger

Caryn Cohen and Beth Rothenberg

Penny Levy, Peggy Danziger, and Mary Lindsay

Joan Malin, Nicole Wachter, Eva Pomice Timerman, Cecile Richards, Leslie Harwood Ehrlich, and Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn

Last week at the Grill Room at The Four Seasons, Jane Rosenthal, Craig Hatkoff, Tiki Barber, and Millard Drexner joined Jonathan Tisch in celebrating the publication of Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough; Reinventing the Customer Experience, written by Jonathan Tisch and Karl Webber.

Among the many wellwishers (take a deep breath): Serena Altschul, Ken Auletta, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Len Berman, Leon Black, David Boies, Matthew Bronfman, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Campbell Brown, Arthur Carter, Kenneth Chenault, Ron Claiborne, Liz Claman, Laurie Dhue, Maurice DuBois, Tina Brown and Harry Evans, Michael Fuchs, Roy Furman, Amb. Dan Gillerman, Betsy Gotbaum, Cathy and Stephen Graham, Allen Grubman, Richard Haass, Jane Hanson, Sandy Hill and Tom Dittmer, James Hoge, Randy Jones, Vernon Jordan, Commisioner Ray Kelly, Calvin Klein, Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis, Jared Kushnerm, Edward Lampert, Jane Lauder, David Lauren, Debra Lee, Sirio Maccioni, William Mack, Fern Mallis, Catie and Donald Marron, Sean McManus, Georgette Mosbacher, Drew Nieporent, Soledad O’Brien, Connie Chung and Maury Povich, Gabe Pressman, Steven Rattner, Deborah Roberts and Al Roker, Daryl and Steven Roth, Karenna Gore and Andrew Schiff, Mickey Schulhof, Tom Scott, Rosanna Scotto, Lynn Sherr, Harry Spevak, Diana Taylor, Anne and Andrew Tisch, Billie Tisch, Joan Tisch, Laurie Tisch, Steve Tisch, Alice and Thomas Tisch, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Weld, Linda Wells, Lally Weymouth, Robert Zimmerman, Caryn and Jeff Zucker, and last but not least, Mort Zuckerman.

Andrea Ross and Serena Altschul

Rosanna Scotto and Julian Niccolini

Caryn and Jeff Zucker

Dominick Dunne

Lesley Klotz and Debbie Bancroft

Denise Rich

Jonathan Tisch, Tiki Barber, and David Dinkins

Drew Nieporent, Jonathan Tisch, and Tiki Barber

Helen Schifter

Jennifer Creel

Jane Rosenthal and John Sykes

Maurice Dubois

Vernon Jordan

Drew Sheinman, Tiki Barber, and Harvey Spevek

Jonathan Tisch and Jamie Tisch

Lauren Spencer and Len Berman

Marion and Elie Wiesel

Maury Povich and Connie Chung

Nicole Miller

Rosanna Scotto and Julian Niccolini

Tina Brown

Mickey Dexter, Jonan Tisch, and Tiki Barber

Steve Rattner talking to Barry Diller

The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Town & Country joined hands to celebrate Dr. Taryn Rose and her brand new boutique on Madison Avenue. It was a fashionable evening focusing on “paying it forward” and philanthropy being a wise business decision .

Pamela Fiori, the editor in chief of Town & Country, stressed the importance of charity in society.

Joanne de Guardiola, Tom Britt, Alexia Hamm Ryan

Taryn Rose, announced that she was once again co-sponsoring The Society’s annual Preview Party for the Haughton International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show on October 18th. “It is known as the opening of New York’s fall social season,” she noted. "I didn't want to do a big splashy store opening event and pay a celebrity—I wanted to put the money toward something that New Yorkers care about," she added to much applause.

Joanne de Guardiola told the group the excellent news that Alexandra Lind Rose and Alexia Hamm Ryan would be joining her as co-chairs of this year’s Preview Party.

The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has for over 50 years attracted the most stylish women in the city, who literally roll up their sleeves to make the lives of people going through cancer care better. At this party were such Society supporters as their new Associates Chairman Christina Smith, President Vera Safai, Lisa Errico, Mary Davidson, Nicole Limbocker, Ruth Fleischmann, Eugenie Niven, Leslie Heaney, Heather Leeds, Chesie Breen, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Gillian Miniter, Catherine and Bryan Carey and Kathy Thomas.

There were cocktails and hors d’ouevres, a cool jazz guitarist, and a collection of handbags and shoes inspired by the Sienna Miller film “Factory Girl,” about Andy Warhol’s tragic “it girl” Edie Sedgwick. Among those mixing and shopping were Michel Cox Witmer, Alison Minton, John Yunis,Ann Rapp, interior designer Tom Britt, Victoria Moran, Aud Cabot, Mark Langrish, Patricia Burnham, Sonia Morgan, Domhnal Slattery, Adria de Haume, Michael Scanlon, William Gibbons, Blair Schlumbom,Claudia Overstrom, Sharon Bush, William Gibbons, Holly Butler and Christine DeLisle, who had just won the part of Mrs. Robinson in an off Broadway production of “The Graduate.”

A percentage of the evening's sales went to SMSKCC.