Birthdays, Anniversaries, Auctions, and Galas

Roric Tobin, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Monique van Vooren, Bette Davis, and Geoffrey Bradfield at Monique Van Vooren's birthday celebration

This past Thursday night, Bailey House held its 30th Anniversary Auction & Gala at Pier 60 at the Chelsea Piers, with more than 800 attending.

For more than a quarter century, Bailey House has been providing housing and support services to homeless men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS in New York City. Bailey House addresses the basic needs – housing, food, and safety. They also deliver support services including access to healthcare, counseling, support groups, and substance abuse treatment. The organization’s objective is to help their clients develop a sense of trust, community and stability so that they can create a future of their own making and “move beyond the crisis of diagnosis to leader productive and independent lives.”

Dean LaBate, Ronald Johnson, Therese Rodriguez, Tom Duane, Regina Quattrochi, Kevin Cathcart, Michael Seltzer, and David Hansell

Harlan Bratcher, Regina Quattrochi, Wendy Williams, and Alan Cumming

Karen Pearl, David Ludwigson, Dean LaBate, Donna Futterman, Richard Burns, Jeannetta Bushey, Tom Duane, Ronald Johnson, Therese Rodriguez, Kevin Cathcart, Michael Seltzer, Richard Haymes, Regina Quattrochi, David Hansell, Clarence Patton, and Ken Fornataro

Richard Burns and David Haymes

Alan Tanksley, Robert Seligsohn, and Harlan Bratcher

Christian Knaust, Regina Quattrochi, and Carmen Marc Valvo

Carmen Marc Valvo, Wendy Williams, and Christian Knaust

Alan Cumming, Patrick Robinson, and Virginia Smith

Witti Reparte and Ritz Cracka

Jesse Sacks, Tracy Ederer, Rickie Trudeau, and Bobby Steinsdorfer

Richard Haymes, Bart Boehlert, and Ted Dawson

Ernie Wohlleben, Gwen Wunderlich, Harry Dubin, Brittney Levine, Jacqueline Giaccio, and Phillip Bloch

Paul Rietz, Hayden Perry, Jane Pauley, Tray Ederer, Bobby Steinsdorfer, and Rickie Trudeau

Sean Moriarty, Tim Shore, David Rappaport, Brian McCabe, and Andrew Booth

Meaghan Kent, Maureen Cavanaugh, and Laura Krey

Jane Pauley, Regina Quattrochi, and Rickie Trudeau

Amy Fine Collins and Richard Slusarczyk

Sharon Gavin, Martin Crook, Jesse James Crook, Lucie Mitchell, and Mark Welsh

Sara Tanksley-Clark, Teddi Tanksley, and Jane Pauley

George McNeely

Bojan Kostic and Wendy Snyder

Chris Herrmann, Alex McCord, John Lyle, John Bartlett and Joseph Lorino

David Liu, Nathan Coyle, Lynn Ban, Joel Isaacs, and Chris Ventry

Toby Usnik, Julie Gilhart, Harlan Bratcher, Susan Rockefeller, David Mixner, Alan Tanksley, David Rockefeller, and Dan Scheffey

Alex Travers and Lily Hoagland

David France, Regina Quattrochi, and Charles King

Steve Johnson, John Eason, and Steve Newman

Tom Duane, Alan Cumming, Brad Hoylman, Grant Shaffer, Dan Scheffey, and Erik Bottcher

Bianca Manley, Rod Manley, Phyliss Yoo, and Erica Stein

Alan Cumming and Wendy Williams

Harlan Bratcher and Julie Gilhart

Tom Duane, Louis Webre, Alan Tanksley, and David France

Karen Pearl and David Ludwigson

Bianca Manley and Ada Kokosar

Barry Salzman and Gregory Habeeb

Harry Dubin and Bianca Pratt

Dean LaBate, Rona Affoumado and Richard Haymes

Stephen Henderson, George McNeely, Ricki Roer, James LaForce, and Dan Scheffey

David Hansell, Joy Tomchin, and Ronald Johnson

Gary Van Dis and Mickey Ateyeh

Harlan Bratcher, David Rockefeller, Susan Rockefeller, Toby Usnik, and Regina Quattrochi

Julie Gilhart, David Rockefeller, and Susan Rockefeller

Last Wednesday night Geoffrey Bradfield turned the David Burke Townhouse into the Cub Room at the Stork Club to fete his great friend Monique Van Vooren on her birthday.

Ijaz Malik, Melissa Berkelhammer, Lauren Day Roberts, Geoffrey Bradfield, Lucia Hwong Gordon, and Chiu-Ti Jansen

Douglas Wittels, Maggie Norris, Montgomery Frazier, Ninotchka Manus, and Eric Mindich

Gabriel Gordon, Herve Aimable, Charlie Alexander, Tyler Bauer, Kenneth Koen, Austen Parker, and Tyler Parker

Douglas Wittels, Maggie Norris, and Geoffrey Bradfield

Jackie Rogers, Eric Javits, Ann Rapp, and Grace Robbins

Jo Hallingby, Tim Kucha, and Susan Traub

Lucia Hwong Gordon, Douglas Hannant, and Nicholas Wayne

Jay Johnson, Mara Khodara, and Craig Dix

Alberto Michelazzi and Emel Dilek

Helena Lehane, Sam Bolton, and Liliana Cavendish

Barbara Winston and Lauren Day Roberts

James Tissot and Jorge Arango

Peachy Deegan and Montgomery Frazier

Alan Roberts, Mika Sterling, and Heidi Roberts

Gail Karr, Larry Kaiser, Geoffrey Bradfield, and Najwa Stone

Sue Chalom, Chappy Morris, Debbie Bancroft, and Douglas Hannant

Cece Black, Monique van Vooren, Eric Purcell, and Jeanne Lawrence

Tyler Parker, Andy Warhol, Austen Parker, and Bette Davis

Liliane Montevecchi, Richard Turley, and Corice Arman

Lucia Hwong Gordon, Ijaz Malik, and Lauren Day Roberts

Charlie Alexander, Monique van Vooren, Grace Robbins, and Tyler Bauer

Edmundo Huerta, Amy Hoadley, and Sam Bolton

Angela Chen

Herve Aimable, Austen Parker, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Tyler Parker, and Peter Brown

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Helena Lehane, and Bette Davis

Gigi Fisdell, Jacques Khodara, and Mara Khodara

Christopher Hyland and Katharina Plath

Richard and Donna Soloway

Liliane Montevecchi, Richard Turley, and Corice Arman

Justin Concannon, Ann Rapp, and Michael Yasenak

Herve Aimable and Gabriel Gordon

Monique van Vooren, Patrick McMullan, Paul Morrissey, and Grace Robbins

Liliane Montevecchi

Gigi Fisdell, Jacques Khodara, and Mara Khodara

Baroness von Langerwall

Bette Davis and R. Couri Hay

Not much detail was spared about Frank Sinatra's obsession with Ava Gardner in a candid tell-all conversation with Lee Wolf and Steven Caras at the final of three Kravis Center Cultural Society ArtSmart Lunch & Learns held recently at the Weiner Banquet Center in the Kravis Center's Cohen Pavilion.

A film set the stage for "Fly Me to the Moon ... or Wherever Ava Is" and followed with a provocative discussion of the sultry affair between the crooner and the free-spirited actress. Over 400 Cultural Society members and guests escaped in the middle of a Monday and lived a bit vicariously through Sinatra and Gardner's tempestuous relationship.

Wolf and Caras examined this legendary tsunami of high drama, and equal doses of unbridled passion and violence that kept Hollywood gossip columns and fan magazines humming for years. For three explosive years, 1951 to 1953, the famous couple fueled headlines with their free-for- all affair, forever quarreling over politics, music and of course, lovers.

Lee Wolf, Steven Caras, and Judy Mitchell

The luncheon concluded with a special surprise. Guests were treated to a rendition of a couple of Frank Sinatra favorites by Shawn Nevad, a student who was a participant at one of the Kravis Centers' ArtScholars dinners where Steven Caras was wowed with his impromptu performance. A senior at Santaluces High School, Shawn is currently a candidate for The Palm Beach Post Pathfinder Scholarship Award and the president of the award-winning and traveling Reflections Choir at his school. He has performed at the Kravis Center on several occasions with his high school choir and theater groups as well as in New York at Carnegie Hall with Sir John Rutter as part of a mass choir. He is a member of the select Musical Theater Group at school and is currently in rehearsal for "Seussical The Musical."

The Kravis Center's ArtScholars program gives high school students who have a strong interest in the performance arts (along with an economic need) greater insight into their particular discipline by attending dinner discussions with special guest speakers and personally meeting distinguished artists who perform on the Kravis Center stages.