{"id":28461,"date":"2022-04-27T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/staging\/?p=28461"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:19:20","slug":"social-season-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/staging\/blog\/social-season-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Season Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The original story appeared in the Spring issue of Park Magazine.\u00a0Click here<\/a>\u00a0to view.\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n \n

Jackie Kennedy, White House @ 60, Marylin Monroe, Channel @100, Pope Francis, The God Committee, Sylvester Stallone Vivien Leigh & Gone with the Wind<\/p>\n \n\n

\u00a0The White House Historical Association<\/b><\/h5>\n \n
\u00a060th Anniversary @ The Met Museum\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n \n

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy envisioned a restored White House that conveyed a sense of history through its decorative and fine arts. In 1961, she established the White House Historical Association (WHHA) to support her vision to preserve and share the Executive Mansion\u2019s legacy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Current First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Jackie\u2019s daughter Caroline Kennedy, and Al Roker greeted guests including Genevieve McSweeney Ryan at the WHHA\u2019\u2019s 60th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0Anniversary Gala which honored its founder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During her remarks,\u00a0Kennedy noted that her mother shared her father, President John F. Kennedy\u2019s belief that the White House should serve as a stage for where America and the world could see the very best of American arts and culture. She also highlighted her mother\u2019s civic accomplishments including her landmark televised tour of the restored White House in 1962.\u00a0<\/span>Supported entirely by private resources, the Association\u2019s mission is to assist in the preservation of the state and public rooms, fund acquisitions, and educate the public on the history of the White House. Since its founding, the WHHA has contributed more than $50 million in fulfillment of its\u00a0mission. whitehousehistory.com<\/p>\n \n

Chanel No. 5\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n \n
Celebrates its First Century\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n \n

When Marylin Monroe was asked what she wore in bed she quipped, \u201cChanel\u00a0<\/b>No. 5.\u201d Coco Chanel debuted the legendary fragrance 100 years ago and to mark the anniversary the company gave a party dubbed \u201cChanel No. 5 in The Stars\u201d at Rockefeller Center\u2019s iconic ice-skating rink where champion Canadian figure skater Elladj Bald\u00e9 performed a breathtaking routine to \u201cUptown Funk,\u201d and Mary J Blige sang a selection of her hits.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The perfumed pack included Lily Allen, Dylan Penn, Ella Hunt, Brittany O\u2019Grady, Lauren Ridloff, and artist Jemima Kirke\u00a0<\/b>who said \u201cI love a woman who wears the same scent every day. It\u2019s glamorous and classic. It\u2019s old Hollywood.\u201d The French actress Marion Cotillard is among the fragrances\u2019 ambassadors. chanel.com<\/p>\n \n

\u00a0Sylvester<\/b>\u00a0Stallone<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n \n
Painting in Palm Beach\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n \n

Sylvester<\/span> Stallone who lives in Palm Beach with his wife Jennifer Flavin and three daughters Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet has had a long career, both as an actor and an artist. Rocky showed 15 paintings at Isabelle Bscher\u2019s Galerie Gmurzynska at The Palm Beach Show. Among the pieces was a pop-art interpretation of Superman from 1990 called Sublime Hero.\u00a0 Stallone said \u201cBoth in art and film, I looked at figures like Spartacus or Hercules who radiated hyper-reality through their hypermasculinity. Painting is where I feel close to a bare-naked truth, so much so that I look at the canvas as some sort of an enemy.\u201d The acting icon also featured a political work titled The Blacklist, referencing the notorious 1938 list that accused actors of being communists, and a series of self-portraits of him as Rocky. Stallone said, \u201cI made a self-portrait with a more defined \u2018pug face\u2019 than I had back then, but to capture his sadness, I switched the brush with a screwdriver and carved the eyes.\u201d gmurzynska.com<\/p>\n \n

Vivien Leigh & Gone with the Wind<\/b><\/h5>\n \n

Also at the Palm Beach Show were a pair of gold earrings that Gone with the Wind star\u00a0Vivien Leigh wore in the film Cleopatra\u00a0at\u00a0M.S.\u00a0Rau\u2019s booth.\u00a0Additionally, a painting by the former Prime Minister titled Distant View of Venice was offered at $1.4 million, a bargain considering Angelina Jolie\u00a0recently sold another work by Churchill\u00a0from M.S. Rau for $11.6\u00a0million. The painting was given to her by ex-husband Brad Pitt. rauantiques.com<\/p>\n \n

Kelsey Grammer, Julia Stiles & Director Austin Stark\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/h5>\n \n

\u00a0<\/span>Director Austin Stark\u2019s critically acclaimed film The God Committee starring Kelsey Grammer, Julia Stiles, and Euphoria\u2019s Colman Domingo is now on Netflix. The movie, about the politics of organ transplants and who gets a new heart and who doesn\u2019t, foreshadowed the front-page news about the first person to receive a heart from a genetically modified pig giving people with failing organs hope of a longer life. Grammer, who plays a doctor in the film with a heart condition said, \u201cI have done some parts for a little spending money but not this one. I was moved by the part and convinced my director, Austin Stark, to give me the lead role instead of the supporting one he had originally offered me.\u201d paperstreetfilms.com<\/p>\n \n

Martina Navratilova & Peter Thomas Roth\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/h5>\n \n

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova and skin care mogul Peter Thomas Roth celebrated the unveiling of two of Martina\u2019s paintings in Roth\u2019s new penthouse in Miami. The female sports icon created the works by dipping tennis balls into paint and then hitting them onto a blank canvas creating high-energy pieces of art. Martina even has an E-PACE Jaguar\u00a0<\/b>wrapped in one of her black and white paintings that never fails to create a stir when she drives around town. peterthomasroth.com<\/p>\n \n

Richard Johnson<\/b><\/h5>\n \n

He\u2019s Back!<\/strong><\/p>\n \n

Richard Johnson, whose new\u00a0gossip column in the New York Daily News is making waves from NYC to Hollywood, was the guest of honor at a lunch\u00a0Jean<\/span> Shafiroff hosted at Robert Caravaggio\u2019s Swifty\u2019s in the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach. Guests included Sharon Bush, Christine Schott, and George Leeds. In the evening Jean celebrated her birthday at the home of Kim and Greg Dryer. Among those singing along with the Mariachi band were Ava Roosevelt, Alex Donner, Ramona Singer, Harry Dubin, and Sylvester Miniter. nydailynews.com<\/p>\n \n

Kevin O\u2019Leary & Carole Crist\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n \n

Shark Tank\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Leary, Wall Street\u2019s Anthony Scaramucci, and Carole Crist, the former First Lady of Florida, moderated panels on Digital Assets, Trends, and Financial Predictions for 2022 at Battlefin Discovery Day in Miami.\u00a0<\/b>Crist\u2019s talk, which focused on women in finance, impact investing, and ESG metrics, was titled \u201cDoing Well by Doing Good.\u201d carolecrist.com<\/p>\n \n

Pope Francis & DR. Roman Tallaj<\/b><\/h5>\n

Somos Community Care Founder Dr. Ramon Tallaj was invited back to the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis to discuss COVID-19 vaccines and the need to address misinformation about vaccinations. Back in the USA <\/span>Dr. Tallaj and his network of over 1,500 doctors administered over 2M vaccines, while attending to over 1.2M patients who suffer from chronic disease in NY.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He was also appointed to lead Mayor Eric Adams’s Health Committee. somoscommunitycare.org<\/p>\n \n

Hetrick-Martin Institute<\/b><\/h5>\n \n
Emery Awards Ball<\/b><\/h5>\n \n

NY State Attorney General Letitia James, \u2018Pose\u2019 star Dominique Jackson, and Kiki Community Founders Aisha Diori, Luna Luis Ortiz, and Raul R. Rivera were honored for their contributions to the LTBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities by the Hetrick-Martin Institute (HMI) at Chelsea Piers. The Emery Awards are presented annually to honor outstanding members and organizations within the community who support, inspire, and lift HMI which is celebrating its 40th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0year.\u00a0This year\u2019s Ball was held during Trans Awareness Week and i<\/span>ncluded a fashion show hosted by Jack Mizrahi Gucci and drag performer and comedy queen Harmonica Sunbeam. Guests included Marti G. Cummings. emeryawards.com<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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