Around Town...With Sue Cameron
November 05, 2008
Sumner Redstone and Lynda Resnick
Stewart and Lynda Resnick
Peter and Megan Chernin
Irena and Mike Medavoy
Lyn and Norman Lear
(left to right) Sue Cameron, Ernie Del, Irena Medavoy and Danielle Allmen Del
Showers of champagne, flowers, martinis and red velvet cake rang out across the city starting with the bottle of Perrier-Jouet Rose Champagne boxed in a beautiful Choinserie container. That served as the invitation to
Irena Medavoy’s 50th birthday party hosted by
Lynda and
Stewart Resnick at their home. Live piano music serenaded friends including
Sumner and
Paula Redstone,
Peter and
Megan Chernin,
Rita Wilson Hanks,
Wendy and
Leonard Goldberg,
Victoria Hopper, M
ichael Black,
Sharon and
Arnie Messer,
Ernie and
Danielle Allman Del,
Lyn and
Norman Lear,
Nancy Daly Riordan,
Arianna Huffington and Irena’s posse of beloved girlfriends. There was a magnificent formal sit-down dinner, lots of laughs, and toasts of love.
Just three nights later, the girl posse moved to Sur Restaurant on Robertson to celebrate the birthdays of
Cheryl Woodcock, reporter for “E.T” and “The Insider,” and
Dagny Hultgreen Dubelko, former anchor of “E! News Daily.” Sur is a restaurant very much like a private club owned by
Guillermo and
Nathalie Zapata and
Lisa and
Ken Todd, who own ten restaurants in England. The restaurant’s décor is like a Zen spa, the food is divine, and it is HOT. Recent guests include
Jessica Simpson,
Britney Spears,
Catherine Zeta-Jones and
Michael Douglas,
Penelope Cruz,
Naomi Watts and
Demi Moore. Joining Irena, Dagny, Cheryl and myself were
Danielle Allman Del,
Julie Araskog,
Alexandra Dwek (just back from two months in the South of France), and
Fabienne Guerin.
Tom and Ellen Calcaterra
and
Mrs. Ellen Calcaterra for their extreme generosity in donating $2 million to UCLA to fund the Thomas C. Calcaterra M.D. Recruitment for Head and Neck Surgery Chair at UCLA. Tom practiced at UCLA for 35 years, and is professor emeritus. Tom and Ellen want to ensure that top head and neck surgeons will continue to be recruited to UCLA.
CONGRATULATIONS TO VICKI REYNOLDS, four-time mayor of Beverly Hills just elected to the board of directors of KCET and their Education Committee. “My maternal grandmother came here from
Vicki Reynolds
Eastern Europe and had no money. She spent her life giving back to Israel,” said Vicki. “My father told me that the value in having means was in helping others. I have always been interested in the arts.”
Indeed she has. It was Vicki Reynolds who came up with the idea of turning the old Beverly Hills Post Office on Canon into a theatre and community arts center. It is now known as the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and Vicki has almost single-handedly raised all the money for the project. She has also been a trustee of the Calif. Summer School for the Arts since 2002.
Sue Cameron, formerly a columnist with 213 and The Hollywood Reporter, writes a monthly column covering people, places and things of interest. Send any question or comment to suearoundtown@sbcglobal.net
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