PARTY LINES : `SALOME' SINGER BEHRENS WOWS 'EM AT RESTAURANT.Byline: Barbara De Witt De Witt, uninc. town (1990 pop. 8,244), Onondaga co., central N.Y., a residential suburb of Syracuse. Daily News Fashion Editor ``Salome'' sizzled at the L.A. Opera Thursday night and the opening-night party held at the Impresario Ristorante at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the United States). The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. . Sure, she sang well, but it was German soprano Hildegard Behrens' beauty and body (and how she looked in that nude body stocking doing the Dance of the Seven Veils  The of this article may be compromised by "weasel words".You can help Wikipedia by removing weasel words. ) that drew applause and camera flashes when she made her entrance at the restaurant. Why all the fuss? The diva is 61. And she has a 16-year-old daughter, Sara, who held court with the crowd, wearing a slinky slink·y adj. slink·i·er, slink·i·est 1. Stealthy, furtive, and sneaking. 2. Informal Graceful, sinuous, and sleek: wore a slinky outfit to the party. black bias-cut gown. Hunky hun·ky 1 n. pl. hun·kies Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person, especially a laborer, from east-central Europe. Tom Fox, who made his L.A. Opera debut as John the Baptist John the Baptist prophet who baptized crowds and preached Christ’s coming. [N.T.: Matthew 3:1–13] See : Baptism John the Baptist head presented as gift to Salome. [N.T.: Mark 6:25–28] See : Decapitation in nothing but a thong and a wig, also attracted a crowd of fans. For those who missed the soiree soi·ree also soi·rée n. An evening party or reception. [French soirée, from Old French seree, from seir, evening, from Latin , here's the scoop: The restaurant was turned into a winter wonderland with lots of white flowers in urns and white rose petals covering the buffet table, where guests piled grilled chicken with champagne sauce and pasta on their plates and came back for some great rainy-night desserts, including mocha Mocha (mō`kə), town (1990 est. pop. 2,000), S Yemen, a port on the Red Sea. It was noted for the export of the coffee to which it gave its name but declined as a trading port in the late 19th cent. with the rise of Hodeida and Aden. pecan torte and apple cobbler. With background music provided by an accordion player and a jazz trio playing Cole Porter hits, the ``Salome'' cast kept the party going strong until midnight. Among the guests were conductor Richard Hickox and wife Pamela Helen Stephen, who performed in the opera as a page; ``Fargo'' star William H. Macy with wife Felicity Huffman, who chatted with cast member Steven Goldstein; Encino opera buff Toni Luskin; and local artist David Hockney (you can see his work at the Getty), who brought Gregory Evans, a subject of many of his paintings. The opera continues through Jan. 31. For tickets, call (213) 365-3500. Jerry Mathers, the trimmed-down, now-hunky ``Leave It to Beaver'' star, got a gold star for good deeds. Actually, it's the Gold Star Award, presented each year to an actor for high standards of professionalism in the entertainment industry. The honor was presented at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills by the Motion Picture Mothers, a 59-year-old organization that includes the moms of Bruce Willis, Tom Selleck, Gena Rowlands and Debbie Reynolds. Coronet Debutantes, associated with the National Charity League, were recently presented to society at the lavishly decorated International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Dressed in white gowns and carrying pink velvet muffs were Stacey Jean Ammons, Nicole Brockmeier, Laura Christine Keehner, Mara Susanna Kelly, Caroline Smith Prijatel, Sara Megan Probst, Stacey Nicole Roen, Stephanie Leigh Thompson, Jasmine Maria VaVerka, Christianne Michelle Winthrop and Melanie Marie Witte. Another presentation ball is scheduled in June to support the works of Sisters of Social Service, and debs will get to meet Archbishop of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony. Presentees from the Valley will include Maria Luisa Camacho, Lauren Gallant, Katherine Elisabeth Nelson and Susan Margaret Wallace. At the annual Twelfth Night Bal Masque masque, courtly form of dramatic spectacle, popular in England in the first half of the 17th cent. The masque developed from the early 16th-century disguising, or mummery, in which disguised guests bearing presents would break into a festival and then join with their sponsored by the philanthropic Les Dames De Champagne on Jan. 6 at the Hotel Sofitel, guests were urged to wear masks with their most glamorous gowns as they do in Venice, Italy. Besides a fashion parade provided by Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue is a chain of upscale American department stores that is owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises (SFAE), a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the elite luxury department store market with Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys New , guests were treated to songs by Broadway legend John Raitt, dancing and a chichi dinner prepared by chef Gilles Arzure that included pastry-wrapped oysters with champagne sauce, herb-crusted sea bass, roasted pigeon and chocolate truffles. Event organizers were president Wanda Henderson and actor Robert Stack and his wife, Rosemarie. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) Congratulating City of Hope Woman of the Year Marcia Wallace are Mr. Blackwell, left, a former City of Hope patient, and chairman of the board Gil Schwartzberg. The gala raised $75,000 for women's cancer research and treatment at the Los Angeles hospital. (2) Schmoozing at the Les Dames De Champagne's Twelfth Night Bal Masque at Hotel Sofitel are president Wanda Henderson, left, with co-hosts Robert and Rosemarie Stack. Kim Canazzi/Special to the Daily News (3) Named as Angels of the Year for outstanding volunteer work in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. are Randy Holmberg, left, Gloria Gold, Anita Davy, Gladys Maasdam and Tim Murphy. The awards, created in 1955 by Burbank businessman Michael Stern, were presented Thursday night at North Hollywood Medical Center The North Hollywood Medical Center, (), was a hospital in the city of North Hollywood, CA. The now decommissioned hospital, which is at 12699 Riverside Drive in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, is the location . Gus Ruelas/Daily News |
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