TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.Byline: Jenny Peters COMEDY FOR SERIOUS CAUSE: Big-name celebrities came out on a damp afternoon in Hollywood to lend their star wattage wattage the output or consumption of an electric device expressed in watts. to the fifth annual Comedy for a Cure fundraiser for the Tuberous Sclerosis tuberous sclerosis n. An inherited disease characterized by hamartomas of the brain, retina, and viscera, as well as epileptic seizures, mental retardation, and skin nodules of the face. Also called Bourneville's disease. Alliance, benefitting research for a disorder that affects one in 6,000 children. Upstairs on the sheltered roof of the Henry Fonda Music Box Theatre The Music Box Theater is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan. The most aptly named theater on Broadway, the intimate Music Box was designed by architect C. last Sunday, famous faces nibbled on hot canap(hrt)s and imbibed fancy Roberto Cavalli vodka and Frida Kahlo tequila cocktails. Enthusiastic bidders perused the silent auction's array of donated goodies on display. "These handbags are really from my closet, which is kinda scary. You don't wanna see my closet," laughed Teri Hatcher, who autographed each one she donated, and added a special goodie good·ie n. Variant of goody1. to one of them. "Everybody knows about my pathetic single dating life, right? I was at a play in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and this woman sits down next to me and pulls out this card and says, 'I know you're going to think that this is weird. I am a professional matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. . I match-make high-profile people like you.' So, I will include this matchmaker card with my basket of purses because clearly, if you read the National Enquirer, I didn't use it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it." The lively evening shifted to the stage, where Billy Bush, Patricia Heaton and Jane Kaczmarek jointly hosted the performances and awards. After heartbreaking video testimonials from parents of the afflicted af·flict tr.v. af·flict·ed, af·flict·ing, af·flicts To inflict grievous physical or mental suffering on. [Middle English afflighten, from afflight, children, top honors went to Julianne Moore and Charles C. Koones, president and publisher of Variety, for their unwavering support of the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance. The event raised close to $250,000 to aid in research, awareness and family support programs for the devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. disease. LIVING LARGE: Big girls deserve love - and deserve to be portrayed positively in movies too, according to "Phat phat adj. phat·ter, phat·test Slang Excellent; first-rate: phat fashion; a phat rapper. [Earlier, sexy (said of a woman), Girlz" writer-director Nnegest Likke, who celebrated her size and her first film premiere on Monday night at the ArcLight Hollywood. "It's been a long, hard journey that I have been on to get here," she said, "and this premiere proves that great things really can happen for those who grow up feeling like ugly ducklings." The director wore a cleavage-revealing cream evening gown that she color-coordinated with the dress of her star, actress Mo'Nique, another big woman who went high-glam for the celebration in floor-length yellow satin. Being proud of being big is a main theme of "Phat Girlz," the comic tale of an overweight department store clerk with dreams of designing fashions for the plus-size set, many of whom were in the crowded audience and gave Mo'Nique an ovation for her spirited performance. "She is the queen who represents not only plus-size women, but all women," Likke cheered, "because we all have self-esteem issues, no matter what our size." The queen held court afterward at the Cabana Club, where her co-stars - Kendra C. Johnson, Joyful Drake, Eric Roberts, Jack Noseworthy, Godfrey and ultra-hottie Haitian model-turned-actor Jimmy Jean-Louis - joined her in chowing down on a menu of salmon, chicken, salad and decadent mashed potatoes. Also on hand to sample from the groaning dessert table were Antwone Fisher, "Inside Man" star Cassandra Freeman and "Napoleon Dynamite" sexpot sex·pot n. Informal A woman considered to have sex appeal. Noun 1. sexpot - a young woman who is thought to have sex appeal sex bomb, sex kitten Shondrella Avery, whose slim physique is more in keeping with what we're used to seeing at Hollywood parties. "There's a place for women of all sizes in the movies," Likke insisted, and she'll find out for sure if big women are what the world wants to see up on the big screen when "Phat Girlz" opens in theaters today. (The film was not shown to critics; therefore, there is no review in today's section.) CAPTION(S): photo Photo: MO'NIQUE and LIKKE: Big night for ``Phat Girlz'' Kevin Winter/Getty Images |
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