Washington Life Magazine - Holiday 2010

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Life of the party

Washington Social Diary

WL-SPONSORED Events

AROUND TOWN Women's rights ............................78

Arena Stage Opening Night Gala........................................26

Mentor Foundation Dinner .................................................79

editor's letter........................................................... 10

Inova Health Systems Gala ......................................... 28

OVER THE MOON Traditions old and new . .............. 80

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The Lombardi Gala ...........................................................30

"Secretariat" book party honoring Bill Nack...........................81

Sibley Hospital's "Hope & Progress" Gala.............................32

Center for Public Integrity 20th Anniversary...................... 82

A Standing Ovation for D.C.Teachers .................................35

DC Vote's 2010 Champions of Democracy Awards Dinner . ..82

WTT Smash Hits .............................................................42

"Hair" Washington Premiere ...............................................83

National Italian American Foundation Gala .........................45

Wings of Hope Gala ............................................................... 83

"Secretariat" Book Party Honoring Bill Nack........................81

Parties, Parties, Parties...................................... 84

INSIDER'S GUIDE Cupcakes and luxury deals ............ 12 LAST-MINUTE gift guide It's not too late to find that extra special gift......................................................... 14 HOLIDAY HOTSPOTS Single? Married? Kids? We show you where to go ........................................................ 18 Social Calendar Upcoming holiday events .......... 20

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DC Vote's 2010 Champions of Democracy Awards Dinner . ..82 Wings of Hope Gala . ............................................................. 83

fashion rocks The Washington Ballet's take on the

MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR Tina Fey receives this year's honor .................................. 42

WL-Exclusive events

WTT Smash Hits Sir Elton's HIV/AIDS fundraiser.. 42

The Heinz Awards ............................................................36

HOLLYWOOD ON THE POTOMAC Freaks and

Mentor Foundation Dinner .................................................79

cinema geeks . .......................................................... 44

National Italian American foundation GALA An Italian American festa ...........................................45 diplomatic dance Public and cultural affairs............46 NICOLLE WALLACE A new book and more ............. 48 SUBTLE GRACES A special sorority of White House social secretaries ................................................................ 50 Special Comment Lobbyist-turned-producer Janet

Zucker on the making of "Fair Game" . .......................... 51

Lifestyles icons of rock music ...................................................... 69

"Hair" Washington Premiere ...............................................83

tiffany & Co. Lambertson Truex's exclusive leather collection for the iconic jeweler .................................................. 75

HOME Life inside homes The "new" social space . ........................ 87

WL-featured Events Freer and Sackler Gala .......................................................36 Fight for Children's Fight Night...........................................38 Knock Out Abuse Against Women Gala ..............................39

re news Near record-breakers . ......................................... 90 OPEN HOUSE Big sales in town and country .................. 95 my washington Michael Kahn's favorite places........ 98

Center for Public Integrity 20th Anniversary...................... 82

Royal Watch William and Kate .......................... 52

FeatureS THE SOCIAL LIST Who's who in Washington ............... 54 THE GREEN BOOK Green with envy ...................... 58

ON THE COVER: THE SOCIAL LIST ABOVE, FROM LEFT: DAVID AND KATHERINE BRADLEY IN THIS YEAR'S SOCIAL LIST (Photo by Tony Powell); INSIDE HOMES

TAKES YOU "INSIDE" THE NEW SOCIAL SPACE (Photo by Geoffrey Hodgdon); DANCERS FROM THE WASHINGTON BALLET DO THEIR BEST TO "ROCK OUT." (Photo by Tony Powell)

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lus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. “The more things change the more they remain the same.” JeanBaptiste Karr, who wrote this epigram for the 1849 edition of his satirical journal, “Les Guèpes,” was a journalist and noted critic of French manners and mores who might have appreciated the task of updating Washington Life’s “Social List” each year. Our roster certainly does change, albeit subtly, with each succeeding edition. Those who die or leave the area are removed and a relatively similar number of new names replaces them. That the list can be said to also “remain the same” is based on certain attributes shared by all those who are included, chiefly active participation in the capital’s social, diplomatic and philanthropic scenes.

(I can’t resist pointing out that “guèpe” is the French word for “wasp” and that – unlike social lists of a half century ago – WL’s roster is not exclusive to this species!)

We are fortunate to have Tony Powell’s handsome portrait shots of a few very special individuals interspersed throughout this year’s list, along with selected replies to a brief “Proust Questionnaire.” (How apt that Messieurs Karr and Proust were most certainly acquainted.) To help commemorate the “Green Book” 80th anniversary we asked Senior Editor Kevin Chaffee to take a look at the history and highlights of Washington’s distinguished social bible.

Our insider look continues with an interview with Nicolle Wallace, President George W. Bush’s one-time communications director. Wallace opens up about the themes that drive her debut

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novel, “Eighteen Acres;” being a feminist at the summit of political power; and her assessment of Sarah Palin’s potential to be a future president.

This issue also celebrates the upcoming holidays, and if you’ve been as busy as we have (see the note below on our extensive party coverage), you may have a few outstanding gifts to purchase as the clock winds down to the end of the year and you really should see our “last minute” gift guide. Any of these coveted objects are sure to please even the most hard-to-please recipient on your list.

We’ve packed this issue with parties and even more parties. From Arena Stage’s muchawaited opening night gala and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to such mainstays as Sibley Hospital’s benefit and Starlight Children Foundation’s yearly fête (plus a few new ones like A Standing Ovation for D.C. Teachers), we’ve got it all.

The year may be coming to a close, but we don’t have the luxury of looking back. With so much to come in 2011, we’ll be focusing forward. I look forward to seeing you at the Children’s National Medical Center’s Monte Carlo Night,Washington National Opera’s “Midwinter Fiesta” and much more in the coming year.

Nancy R. Bagley Editor in Chief Readers wishing to contact Nancy Bagley can email her at info@washingtonlife.com

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The Insider’s Guide to Washington | Sweet treats, charitable giving and what’s in now

SWEET TOOTH

BITE INTO THE NEXT BIG INDULGENCE Attention cupcake lovers! There’s a new kid in town. With 29 locations on the East and West coasts, CRUMBS BAKE SHOP has finally made its Washington debut. The shops are modeled after old-time candy stores and the sweet treats are served on real china. 604 11th St. NW. For more information, visit www.crumbs.com.

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Happy new year!

NEW YEAR’S AT THE PARK

Five thousand years in the making, the Shen Yun PERFORMING ARTS show is coming to the Kennedy Center in January with breath-taking costumes, original music and wondrous moving backdrops. Appropriate for all ages, Shen Yun is both a singular artistic experience and an entertaining way to learn about Chinese history and culture. For information and tickets, visit www.shenyunperformingarts.com.

Ring in 2011 in style with the Park Hyatt’s luxury package - two tickets to the hotel’s New Year’s Eve party featuring an open bar, live music, a tapas and dessert buffet and of course a Champagne toast at midnight.

Enjoy a complementary upgrade to a Premier Park Deluxe room. Park Hyatt, www.parkhyattwashington.com.

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Impersonal presents

Ringing in the New Year with a small group of close friends

Attending an overcrowded, overpriced party – à la last year’s Late Night Shots disaster

Spotting new members of Congress

Celebrity spotting

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Last-Minute Gift Guide Charming gifts sure to delight EVEN THE MOST STUBBORN procrastinator.

All ITEMS are locally available.

CHAS SCHWARTZ & SON RING Price upon request.

Beaudry Couture Dome ring with colored diamonds set in platinum with accents of rose and yellow gold. Chas Schwartz & Son, www. chasschwartzjewelers. com.

SYLENE CHEMISE $78. Cream and black lace chemise.

LOUIS VUITTON GOLF BAG $9,850.

Shown in monogram canvas. Louis Vuitton at

Fairfax Square, www. theshopsatfairfaxsquare.com.

PATEK PHILIPPE CALATRAVA $17,400.

18-kt. yellow gold dial featuring hobnail style bezel and a hand-stitched alligator strap. Liljenquist & Beckstead Jewelers, www.liljenquist.com.

Sylene, www. sylenedc. com.

ALEXIS BITTAR CUFF $395. Calder gold-nested citrine quartz, smoky quartz and sunstone cuff. Charm, www. charmgeorgetown. com.

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Last-Minute Gift guide

TIFFANY HOLIDAY CHARMS from left: Tree

with gemstones in platinum ($350); 18-kt. white gold and gemstone snowman ($2,050); sterling silver and enamel candy cane ($125); 18-kt. white gold and diamond snowflake ($675); diamond and enamel ice skate in platinum ($1,800). Tiffany & Co., www.tiffany.com.

VIRTUAL GOLF GIRL’S GOLF ROOM Room rental starts at $5,000. An ultimate entertainment center for golf enthusiasts, featuring GIS-based 3D modeling technology The Virtual Golf Girl HD Golf Simulation System is also available for home installation.

Virtual Golf Girl, www.virtualgolfgirl.com.

TYSONS GALLERIA Shop for the holidays at Tysons Galleria where there will be many festive events, including magic snow indoors (above), charity gift wrapping, and a live performance of the “Nutcracker” by the Olney Ballet Studio, just to name a few. Find out more at www.tysonsgalleria.com.

PIERRE DEUX TABLE SETTING Prices vary. Featuring Herb napkin rings and grape leaf dish in gilded pewter, Sea Urchin salt and pepper set in antique pewter and assorted spoons. Pierre Deux at Fairfax Square, www. pierredeux.com.

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JORGE ADELER Price upon request. Gold and peridot earrings.

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Holiday Spots It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Get in the holiday spirit with these festive, family-friendly activities.

WHO

Traditionalist

Young and Young at Heart

Quirky

Sugar Plum Fairies

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SUNDAY BRUNCHES WITH SANTA

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CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE

THE NUTCRACKER

A Washington holiday institution — the Sunday brunch buffet provides diners with various pastries, gourmet salads and fresh oysters against the backdrop of a monumental view.

Tasty treats include French toast and made-to-order omelets. In between helpings, you can tell Old St. Nick what you want for Christmas.

Chill out at this 15,000-square-foot indoor wonderland made entirely of ice. Dozens of artists traveled from China to create this one-of-a-kind world with a “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” theme.

Exhibits include “The Art of Seuss: A Retrospective” and “From Harbin to WHO-ville,” along with ice skating and Mrs. Claus’ Crafts Corner.

Cirque Dreams Holidaze.

(Photo courtesy of Cirque du Soleil)

Environmentally Conscious Seasons Greenings at

Cirque du Soleil brings its usual aweinspiring magic to this breathtaking holiday production with familiar festive friends. These include gingerbread men, toy soldiers, snowmen and penguins attempting all manner of daring feats.

No holiday would be complete without a production of “The Nutcracker.”

Washington Ballet Theatre’s fulllength staging (performed since 1989) remains faithful to the original.

Performances showcase both student and professional dancers, making it the perfect family event.

THE BOTANIC GARDENS

The annual holiday exhibit highlights the relationship between plants and how people use them to celebrate the season.

The exhibit adds a bit of Washington flair, including famous buildings made from plant materials as well as a garden railway with world landmarks from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.

Music Lover

National Cathedral Presents

HANDEL’S MESSIAH

Handel’s masterpiece is performed in a magical cathedral setting with a Baroque-period orchestra and guest soloists accompanying the choirs conducted by Michael McCarthy.

WHERE

Roof Terrace Restaurant at the Kennedy Center

Gaylord National Harbor

The Kennedy Center

The Metropolitan Ballet Theatre (Rockville, Md.)

U.S. Botanic Gardens

Washington National Cathedral

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Sunday, Nov. 28, Dec. 12 and Dec. 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Now until Jan. 9, 2011

Dec. 7 to 12, 7:30 p.m. with matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

Dec. 3 to 5 and Dec. 10 to 12, performance times vary, tickets available only online at www. metropolitanballet.org.

Now until Jan. 2, 2011

Dec. 3 (7:30 p.m.), Dec. 4 (4 p.m.) and Dec. 5 (4 p.m.)

HOW MUCH

$39.95 for adults and $20 for children ages 4 through 11. Call 202-4168555 for reservations.

$24-$29 adults; $13-$18 children (age 4 through 12). Call 301-965-4000 for tickets.

$31 to $110. Group discounts are available by calling 202-416-8400.

$17 (groups of 10+), $18 (seniors), $20 (in advance), $22 (at the door).

FREE! For more information call 202-225-8333.

$25 to $85, for more information call 202-537-6200.

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NATIONAL CHILDREN’S MUSEUM GALA Don’t miss this fun and whimsical evening featuring cocktails, dinner and dancing to benefit the campaign for the new National Children’s Museum. The Gaylord National at National Harbor; starting at $325; festive black-tie; contact Sara Lange, 202-675-4135, slange@ncm.museum.

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SOME BENEFIT So Others Might Eat will celebrate its 40th anniversary in style this year.

Community-minded guests will enjoy a silent auction, dinner and dancing to the tunes of Bob Shuford and Honky Tonk Confidential. National Building Museum; 6 p.m.; $300; cocktail attire; contact Tracy Monson, 202-797-8806 ext. 1011.

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SMITHSONIAN YOUNG BENEFACTORS’ JOLLY HOLIDAY Start the holiday season at the 21st annual Jolly Holiday celebration hosted by young Smithsonian patrons. Guests will enjoy decadent hors d’oeuvres and dessert buffets, dancing and a special appearance by Mr. Claus himself at this “Santas and Senoritas”-themed event.

Smithsonian Castle; 8 p.m.; $60 Young Benefactors, $85 nonmembers; contact Kate Stilwill, stilwillk@ si.edu.

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KENNEDY CENTER HONORS The major entertainment stars to be honored this year are Merle Haggard, Jerry Herman, Bill T. Jones, Sir Paul McCartney and Oprah Winfrey. The event will be broadcast nationally on CBS on Dec. 28. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; $350 and up; black-tie; call 202-467-4600, jrdow@kennedy-center.org.

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Molly and Rick Rolandi with Pamela and Drew Scallan at the 2009 Choral Arts Gala. (Photo by Kyle Samperton)

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THE WASHINGTON BALLET’S ‘NUTCRACKER’ TEA Kick off the season’s festivities at the company’s traditional Tea Party following a matinee performance of Septime Webre’s “The Nutcracker” at the Warner Theater. This family event includes musical entertainment and other special treats plus special photo opportunities with the cast. The Willard Intercontinental Hotel; 3:30 p.m.; start at $200 for the performance and Tea Party; contact Elizabeth Early, 202-274-4518, eearly@washingtonballet.org.

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CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY HOLIDAY CONCERT & GALA You’ll surely get in the spirit of the holidays at this always-memorable gala that begins with a Christmas concert at the Kennedy Center and is followed by dinner and dacing on the RoofTerrace. This year, ’Round Midnight will provide the evening’s entertainment. Kennedy Center; 7 p.m.; $600; black-tie; contact Amy Moore, 202-244-3669 ext. 20, amoore@choralarts.org.

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CHORAL ARTS YOUNG PARTRONS ‘A BELGIAN MIDWINTER’ Join young supporters of the Choral Arts Society at a Belgian-themed holiday extravaganza that

includes a holiday concert at the Kennedy Center and a rollicking buffet supper at the newly opened Rivers restaurant at the Watergate.

Kennedy Center and Rivers at the Watergate; 7 p.m. concert, 8:30 p.m. after party;$85; contact Amy Moore, 202-244-3669 ext. 20, amoore@choralarts.org.

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Shen Yun Performing Arts returns to Washington with classical Chinese dance and music that will be featured throughout a gloriously colorful and exhilarating show. Kennedy Center; starting at $80; for more information visit www. shenyunperformingarts.org.

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A HOMECOMING GALA: In an electrifying climax to a 10-year journey of renewal and reconstruction, the doors finally opened at Arena Stage’s $135 million Mead Center for American Theater with nearly 600 patrons paying up to $2,500 apiece to preview the new performing arts complex in Southwest. MAJOR HAUL: More than $900,000 was raised for the arts complex’s coffers during the biggest theater opening in the capital since the Kennedy Center opened in 1971. Guests enjoyed a show featuring Alice Ripley and tap dancing Manzari Brothers, with Tony-winning actor Brian Stokes Mitchell as the headliner and WJLA anchor Leon Harris serving as emcee. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” inaugurated the space and runs until Dec. 30. SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: “It’s good to be home,” said Artistic Director Molly Smith.

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COLORFUL CURE: The 40th anniversary of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center was celebrated with colors. In keeping with the theme “color the cure,” each individual contribution was represented by a different hue as guests sipped cocktails and participated in a silent auction. The founder, Dr. John F. Potter, was recognized for his innovative vision and ongoing dedication in the fight against cancer, while Ronald and Carol Crawford received this year’s Margaret L. Hodges Leadership Award.

Guests at the black-tie event ended the evening in style with dinner, dancing with one lucky guest driving home the raffle prize: a 2011 Lexus. STYLISH PATRONS: Samuel Foster, Wendy Solovay and Sherrell Aston.

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DINING FOR A GOOD CAUSE: Known as the brainchild of chairwoman Rachel Sullivan, Sibley Memorial Hospital’s 10th anniversary Hope & Progress Gala was a resounding success. The Hope & Progress Award was presented to Dr. Colette M. Magnant and Robert L. Sloan took home the Mars Family Award. EMOTIONAL HIGH POINT: When former patient Yolanda Gruendel, who spoke movingly of her cancer treatment at Sibley during the first annual Celebration of Hope & Progress, took to the stage to explain how greatly the hospital’s Cancer Center programs had changed her life.

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TEACH FOR D.C.: Though D.C. Public Schools rates 16 percent of the city’s public school teachers as “highly effective,” seven passed a rigorous review to earn a first annual “Excellence in Teaching Award” from D.C. Public Education Fund. Each received a trophy, a free weekend hotel package courtesy of Marriott International and $10,000 from philanthropist David Rubenstein, who made surprise $5,000 donations to 20 more teachers, chosen through an open nomination process. Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Jill Biden (who teaches at a local community college) and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented awards before Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl broke into an acoustic rendition of “Hero.” STAR PUPILS: David Gregory and Thomas Friedman spoke movingly of educators who had influenced their early lives before Mayor-elect Vincent Gray capped off the evening by telling the cheering crowd that “There will be no deviation from education reform in the District of Columbia.”

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DANCING DRAGONS, ROARING TIGERS: Patrons celebrated the return of ancient Chinese masterpieces in two newly renovated galleries devoted to precious jade and bronze objets d’art dating to 1400 B.C. before moving on to a sumptuous dinner and dessert buffet. BIDDING BUT NO WAR: Clever auction bidders took home contemporary Chinese artworks at bargain prices, including a gunpowder on paper drawing by Cai Guo-Qiang that sold for just over half its $50,000 estimate to Dame Jillian Sackler.

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CHANGING THE WORLD: The 16th annual awards ceremony paying tribute to the memory of the late Sen. H. John Heinz III focused on global change and the environment for the second year in a row, with winners receiving $100,000 apiece to further work in such critical areas as ocean acidification, pesticide control, crop diversification, glacial melting and transportation oil dependency. DIFFICULT CHOICES: Heinz Family Foundation Chairman Teresa Heinz thanked jurors for narrowing down 350 deserving nominees to 10 finalists, noting that “time is short” to change the world for the better. It is not just a “moral responsibility” to act as quickly as possible, she told the crowd, but “a survivors’ responsibility” as well.

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HONORING THE VETS: Fight Night, the annual cigars and testosterone fest, fell on Veteran’s Day this year and honored the soldiers with a battle of the biceps. About 1,700 business and government heavyweights reveled amid the smoky celebration of red meat and boxing in the Hilton’s cavernous ballroom, raising $2 million to help keep local kids healthy so they can learn. ALL IN THE RING: Following in the footsteps of founder Joseph E. Robert Jr., this year’s chairmen, Richard Kay and Ted Leonsis, raised $2 million by luring boxing legends Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Jake LaMotta and Ray Mancini to attend. BOXING CARD: an Army vs. Navy amateur bout plus the presence of various generals and admirals who managed not to cringe when surrounded by a platoon of models up for inspection in military-inspired outfits and Everlast hot pants.

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ONE TWO PUNCH: Women gathered at this 17th annual ladies-only event benefiting victims of domestic violence in the Washington area. Guests, including legendary supermodel Lauren Hutton, made the scene in the latest fashions and participated in live and silent auctions while their male counterparts enjoyed Fight Night at a nearby venue. MAJOR KNOCKOUT: The raucous after party united both groups for cocktails, dancing and the usual heavy duty flirting.

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Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond at the 13th Annual Mark Twain Prize (Photo by Scott Suchman)

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Mark Twain PRIZE for Humor The Kennedy Center

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FUNNY LADY: “Saturday Night Live” sensation and “30 Rock” star Tina Fey was everything the Kennedy Center could have hoped for – and not just because the event raised a cool $1.3 million for programs, performances and outreach.

This year also marked the first time the prize was presented to someone so young (Fey is 40). Previous awardees, usually at the end of long careers, have included Jonathan Winters, Bob Newhart, Carl Reiner, Lily Tomlin and Bill Cosby. FUNNY NIGHT: The Concert Hall was jammed with fans eager to see Fey’s friends and fellow comics roast and salute her, including Steve Martin, Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels, Tracy Morgan, Amy Poehler and the irrepressible Betty White. MOCKING HER YOUTH: Glamorous in a black Oscar de la Renta gown, her hair in an uncharacteristic upsweep, Fey said she did feel qualified to win “the Judy Blume Prize for awkward puberty or the Harper Lee Prize for Small Bodies of Work.” HIGHPROFILE GUESTS: Among the committed patrons sighted at the post-performance dinner in the Kennedy Center Atrium were Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith, Jacqueline Mars, Adrienne Arsht, Bob Barnett, Rita Braver, Susan Eisenhower and Sharon Percy Rockefeller.

INTERESTING ASIDE: The event occurred on the same date that John F. Kennedy was announced the elected president 50 years before. This year also marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death. – Chuck Conconi

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MATCH, SET, POINT: Sir Elton John and Billie Jean King brought their merry band of tennis legends to Washington for the first time in the 18th year of World Team Tennis’ “Smash Hits,” serving up a healthy dose of competition and raising $500,000 in one evening for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the Washington AIDS Partnership.

AUCTION ACTION: Prior to the match, the players prodded the crowd into bidding up items ranging from the obscure to the marvelous. The tennis action was provided by two teams which also included Grand Slammers Anna Kournikova and Martina Navritolova. In the end, Team Billie Jean King defeated Team Elton John 19-15.

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Freaks and Cinema Geeks Willie Geist’s new book explores pop culture absurdities; filmmakers discuss the strange side of politics at the NIAF gala B y J a n e t D o n o va n

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REAKY: Anyone who follows political and cultural shenanigans might think that MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist was talking about Washington in his book, “American Freak Show,” but that’s not the case. He’s talking about the other freak show: Snooki, Tiger Woods, Fidel Castro, Sarah Palin, Lindsey Lohan, “Blago” and Eliot Spitzer.

“‘American Freak Show’? We live in it everyday. We may not know it, but we’re all unwitting participants – actors, extras – walking in the background of the freak show,” said Geist at a book party in his honor at the home of Norah O’Donnell and Geoff Tracy.

“One year ago, you didn’t know who Snooki was. Now it feels like she’s part of the family.

Snooki perfectly represents the ‘American Freak Show’: talent no longer requisite to become famous,” he said. “Just have a little attitude, stuff yourself in your dress, get drunk on TV and you’ve got yourself a career.”

On the even younger generation he says he tries “to stay away from attacking teenagers, if possible, but in the second volume of ‘American Freak Show,’ I’m coming after Justin Bieber.

He’s corrupting the tweens of this country.”

Guests included Maureen Dowd, Pat Buchanan, Maureen Orth, Jonathan Capehart, Luke Russert and Karen Finney.

Sideshows: In town for a private screening at the West End Cinema, filmmaker Alex Gibney (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”) likens his new movie “Client 9,” based on the sex scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, to a mystery thriller and that’s how he structured it.“There are all sorts of contours to it,” he said. “On the one hand, it’s about very personal issues – sex, fidelity, marriage, infidelity, prostitution – but it’s also about the political blood sport in this country which is

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extremely vicious. It’s also about crimes Spitzer committed on one hand and the far greater crimes committed by Wall Street, the pharmaceutical firms and polluters. It gives you a broad sense of American political culture.

“This is not a new story, it’s an ongoing story.

Maybe we should have more women in Congress. Men just can’t seem to keep it in their pants.”

Zip codes: Actor Danny DeVito wants you to know that all of the crazies don’t live in the 90210 zip code.“You think Hollywood is full of wackos,” he said,“Washington is really full of wackos. I haven’t seen one sane person since I got here. I’m telling you, it’s like everyone’s on the come. Everybody’s looking for something.

It’s bizarre.” Despite that, DeVito was having a wonderful time holding court at the private Café Milano dinner on the eve of the 35th Annual National Italian American Foundation Gala (party pics on opposite page), as was fellow actor Joey ”Pants” Pantoliano.The latter, who has won honors for his documentary “No Kidding! Me 2!!”on depression, talked about his own battle with the disease. “After I was informed by a psychiatrist that it was a brain disease and that it wasn’t my fault, I became

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elated and my healing bega; I felt like I hit the lottery.” His next film delves into post-traumatic stress disorder in the military.

At the gala, actor-turned-singer Robert Davy discussed how the economic recovery has affected Hollywood. “It’s not just the economy, it’s the whole communications revolution,” he said. “There are so many alternative forms of entertainment now that a lot of traditional entertainment is falling through the cracks.”

Nonetheless, he added,“It’s still one of America’s great exports.”

Later on, Italian producer and NIAF honoree Aurelio DeLaurentiis gave the crowd a sneak peek at his next flick. “We are shooting a movie right now, ‘Book of Love,’ with Robert DeNiro who is acting in the Italian language, which is very very strange for an American actor.” Stay tuned.

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Diplomatic Dreams Come True Indonesian and Israeli ambassadors’ career trajectories; Monaco’s young guest will help judge world-renowned circus competition

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INDERFELLA” STORY: Once a dishwasher, now he’s the ambassador.

That’s the tale Indonesian Ambassador Dino Patti Djalal loves to tell about the time his father was deputy chief of mission in Washington and he, a McLean High School student, asked him for an embassy job because, as he remembers, “After two winters here I missed the tropics and wanted to go to Mexico. ‘There are no openings,’ my father said, ‘only janitor and dishwasher.’ ‘I’ll take it!’ I said. My old boss still works at the embassy; now I’m his boss but he still calls me Dino!”

It’s hard not to call him Dino. He’s Above: Indonesian Ambassador Dino Patti likeable, approachable and masterful at Djalal and Rosa Djalal. (Courtesy of Embassy making you feel important.The epitome of Indonesia) Right: Garfield Elementary School third grader Zakiya Roberson’s clown of a tech-savvy diplomat, he uses an drawing won her a trip to Monaco sponsored iPad for his speech notes, “tweets” on by the Principality. (Photo by Gail Scott) Twitter and has his own website. The ambassador is a “regular guy” who jogs in for Miss Indonesia 1995, mother Rock Creek Park, shoots hoops in his own of their three young children, driveway and hosts casual “movie nights” at and a dentist who is managing home. He is widely known in his country as a partner of a huge dental practice rising diplomatic star with a national best-seller, back home which she runs by e-mail and Skype.

“Harus Bisa!” (“The Can Do Leadership”) that Together, they are a stunning couple, especially as became a TV show, and direct access to two- they greeted hundreds of guests at their national term, democratically elected President Susilo day reception, standing near the famous staircase of the palatial Indonesian Embassy – once home Bambang Yudhoyono.

With a doctorate from the London School to the fabled hostess Evalyn Walsh McLean and of Economics and a clear vision for his young her Hope Diamond. democracy’s future as the world’s largest Muslim nation, this charismatic and ambitious son of a WHEN I GROW UP: Being the ambassador diplomatic family is not shy about admitting he of Israel to the United States is something might consider a career other than diplomacy. Michael Oren dreamed about in his youth.

Meanwhile, he hopes that, “‘Eddie,’ who bullied During a Jewish high school tour to me in school when I was a serious and driven Washington, this native-born American from New Jersey met then-Israeli Ambassador student who graduated at 15, is reading this!”

Eddie would be really jealous if he saw Rosa Yitzhak Rabin. At the time, as his wife Djalal, the ambassador’s beautiful wife: runner-up Sally Oren reports, the young overachiever

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thought, “that’s a job I’d like to have.” Choosing to immigrate to Israel (to make aliyah) after earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Columbia University, this New York Times best-selling author and distinguished academic would later serve as Rabin’s advisor when he was prime minister.

A REAL FAIRY TALE: When Ellen Noghès, wife of Ambassador of Monaco Gilles Noghès and a new Alliance Française board member, heard that Washington was one of six cities chosen to send a “junior judge” to Monaco’s world famous 35th Annual Circus Festival in January, she “saw the perfect opportunity to partner” with the Alliance and its important French program now in five under-served D.C. public elementary schools.

American-born Ellen is herself a grateful recipient of early public school French lessons she terms “a life-altering gift for this shy little girl from Dearborn, Michigan.”

Beginning French student and Garfield Elementary School third grader Zakiya Roberson’s “circus clown” drawing won her and her mother, Tranita Palmer, the eight-day odyssey as the Principality’s guests. “We were shocked at first,” Palmer said. “It’s an actual fairy tale come true.” The festival, created by the late Prince Rainier III, a circus fan himself, welcomes the greatest acts in the world to compete for the prestigious “Golden Clown,” the “Oscar of the circus world.”

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Pollywood | Q&A with Nicolle wallace

Power Player Nicolle Wallace, White House communications director for President George W. Bush, talks about her new book “Eighteen Acres,” feminism and whether Sarah Palin would make a good president.

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WL: Would Sarah Palin make a good president?

NW: There are certain aspects of the presidency that would suit her perfectly. Her ability to connect with voters is admirable, and her charisma is unmatched. Her quitting the Alaska governorship might prove daunting because of its inconsistency with a value most parents teach their children: never give up.

Nicolle Wallace served as an adviser to Sen. John McCain’s 2008 Presidential bid (Photo by Ami Vitale) Right: Then White House Communications Director, Wallace consults with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office in 2006.

Washington Life: Your book focuses on three strong female characters. Do you think of yourself as a feminist?

Nicolle Wallace: Absolutely. I find it fascinating that women in leadership positions struggle with this question. I grew up with a great awareness of how far women had come. I still find it mind boggling that we only earned the right to vote in 1920. I wonder if we’ve gone too far in the other direction and risk taking for granted rights that were the result of years of hard work and sacrifice from the women who came before us.

WL: Much has been made about the number of women running for public office recently. Was this the “year of women”?

NW: I don’t believe we actually increased our overall numbers in Congress this year. ... Until we have a more open conversation about equality and gender, and until female candidates are more comfortable calling out explicit and implicit sexism in the way their campaigns are covered, we’ll see small gains – and small setbacks – but we won’t make that final giant leap toward the highest office in the land.

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WL: Would you ever run for office?

NW: I would never, ever, run for office. The

climate is hostile for everyone, but I find it’s particularly hostile to people who find themselves drawn to the center of the debates.

Moderates are loathed more than the far right and far left.

WL: Your female characters struggle to balance a personal life and a demanding professional life.

Do men have an equally difficult time?

Did you ever find yourself in a similar situation?

NW: I don’t think one has to work in politics to relate to the juggling act that women perform in all lines of work each and every day. Plenty of men feel torn ... but women seem to face the greatest pressure to “do it all.” I remember women whom I worked with in the White House who would walk into senior staff meetings gulping coffee because they’d been up all night making Halloween costumes or frosting birthday cakes. I was fortunate in that my husband also worked in the Bush administration, so he understood the demands on my time ...

but I often felt like I was missing out on my personal life when I traveled overseas or worked late for long stretches.

WL: What did you love most and least about your political career? What do you miss most and least?

NW: The thing I loved most was meeting my husband [during] the Florida [vote] recount and experiencing the Bush years and the McCain campaign together. I least liked watching Hurricane Katrina from Greece during my wedding week. I miss the close group of friends we made during our time in the Bush administration. I never miss the early mornings.

WL: What about a sequel? A movie?

NW: The next book picks up the story a few months into [President] Charlotte Kramer’s second term. Vice President Tara Meyers and Dale Smith are also central characters.

The story is a tad darker and examines the tension between loyalty and honesty. I hope that people root for all three of my main characters. ... There are no movie plans in the works.

WL: What’s next for you?

NW: I would leap at the opportunity to keep

doing what I’m doing, but I know that every time humans make plans or think they know what’s next, the universe laughs and changes things up. I’m trying to learn to go with the flow.

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pollywood | social secretaries

Honoring the Code A special sisterhood of White House social secretaries can be counted upon to support the job’s current occupant

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ast year’s scandal involving state dinner crashers and Obama appointee Desirée Rogers put the job of White House social secretary in the spotlight, a place where no one in that position should ever be.

Letitia Baldrige, social secretary during the Kennedy administration, used to say, “If you stay out of the papers, it’s a sign of your success.”

So, does that make Rogers a failure? It turns out that she got bad press for the same things that other social secretaries also did at one time or another. Wearing designer gowns is nothing new. Neither is sitting down at table during a state dinner. But, while the crashers probably weren’t the first to breach the gates and posed

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no real threat to national security, they seemed hell-bent on risking everything, including other peoples’ reputations and safety, for their own proverbial 15 minutes of fame. In the ensuing firestorm of publicity, accusations and even a congressional hearing, Rogers resigned.

Remarkably, none of the other social secretaries had much to say, except to defend her reputation. There is an unwritten code among these talented, hard-working women that involves keeping their privileged access to insider information to themselves.

Keeping the faith is not just limited to the Marine Corps.

These women watch out for each other as well as those whom they serve.

Every time a new secretary gets appointed, her outgoing predecessor hosts a luncheon honoring the newcomer to which all of the former social secretaries are invited. The purpose of this tradition is to share helpful tips and funny stories about their days – and nights – in the White House.

Bess Abell, who worked for Lady Bird Johnson, tells a classic tale about a couple who begged to be invited to a state dinner because it was the wife’s “dying wish.” There must have been a miracle cure, Abell recalls, because she saw them both three decades later and the wife looked terrific. During the Reagan days Muffie Brandon Cabot had to stuff the cleaning crew into a broom closet minutes before Prince Left: Desirée Rogers at the White House state dinner for the president of India in 2009. Above: Letitia Baldrige on the job in the Kennedy White House, circa 1962.

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Charles made an unexpected grand entrance down the corridor they were cleaning.

Baldrige is fond of telling how the visit of Prince Ranier and Princess Grace of Monaco got downgraded from a dinner to a luncheon because everyone was well aware that President Kennedy had once dated Grace Kelly.

But Jackie and Grace got along just fine after that, she notes, probably because they spent most of their time on two different continents.

During her tenure, a White House social secretary may oversee as many as 2,000 events attended by half a million guests. Their duties include categorizing them as “political” or “non-political,” i.e., whether taxpayers foot the bill or not, and never losing sight of the fact that none can ever interfere with the daily business taking place in the Executive Mansion.

Proximity to power can create a volatile atmosphere, so there has to be discipline and loyalty to ensure the delicate balance holding this most important household together is never disturbed by a breach of conduct or protocol.

Baldrige, a noted etiquette expert, points out that what we call “diplomacy” is basically a combination of good manners and discretion.

The gate crashing scandal filled the news for weeks, but the absence of comment from Roger’s predecessors (who would know the most about the situation) spoke volumes.

Whether Democrat or Republican and regardless of when or for whom they served, these women realized the importance of their honor code. In a city where gossip is part of the air we breathe, silence is a genuine virtue.

Semper fi, ladies.

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pollywood | Valerie Plame

Where sibling rivalries disappear.

Naturally.

Spies Like Us Janet Zucker, a former lobbyist and the producer of “Fair Game,” says that Valerie Plame Wilson’s story is a relatable one about a woman and her family’s struggle to survive a singularly difficult ordeal

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knew nothing about the world of spies and espionage, but from the first moment I met Valerie Plame Wilson I identified with her both as a career woman and as a mother. Sitting across from me was a real momma bear whose job just happened to involve spying on the nuclear programs of rogue nations.

It took me about 15 minutes to know that I wanted to tell her story. It had all the excitement and drama you could ask for: a government cover-up, a secret double-life, shadowy adversaries, ambition, betrayal and danger.

It played out in the media like a modern day “Manchurian Candidate,” complete with a beautiful female lead. But it happened to real people.

I learned that Valerie and her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson’s story wasn’t just a political thriller. Though it was being played out on a national stage, opposite such imposing figures as “the government” and “national security,” Valerie’s story was really about one woman and one family, and their struggle to make it through an ordeal they had never expected to have to face.

I realized that all those terrifying government spooks looming in the shadows were more dramatic in the way they impacted Valerie and Joe’s lives, pushing these two individuals and their young marriage very

Janet Zucker and her husband Jerry produced the film “Fair Game,” starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn.

nearly over the edge.

Before the events of the film, Valerie’s career was everything to her. She had steadily risen through the ranks at the CIA, putting her personal life and safety behind the demands of her job. For anyone in Valerie’s line of work, doing so meant not only countless hours in the office, in the field and overseas, it meant a shroud of secrecy around the professional life that was so important to her.

When Valerie had a bad day at the office, her silence was a matter of national security.

In the end, good stories aren’t about events, they’re about the people struggling to live through them. The story of the socalled “Valerie Plame affair” is a cautionary tale about a government cover-up, and the struggle of a husband and wife who fight to bring the truth to light.

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pollywood | royal watch

How Happily Ever After?

Prince William Imports Europe’s ‘New Look’ Royalty to Britain

By ROLAND FLAMINI

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n the same day that Prince William, second in line to the British throne, announced his engagement to Catherine (“Kate”) Middleton, Prince Christian of Denmark, second in line to the Danish throne, tugged at a chord to unveil a historic portrait recently acquired for the Rosenberg Castle museum in Copenhagen. But it was William’s betrothal to Kate that monopolized the world’s media: Christian had to be content with a couple of paragraphs and a few pictures in the Danish papers, even though it was the prince’s first public function, and therefore a royal landmark in its own way.

In part, this was because Prince Christian is five years old, and his mother, Crown Princess Mary, had to help him pull the chord.

And yes, an unveiling is not an engagement; but mostly it was an unsurprising reflection of the way the British royals dominate the world media, overshadowing the other eight European monarchies: Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Monaco and Liechtenstein (the last two being respectively a principality and a grand duchy).

The Sunday following the British announcement, the New York Times carried two stories on the forthcoming British royal wedding, with a combined wordage roughly equal to its report on that week’s NATO summit in Lisbon. When Princess Victoria, the future queen of Sweden married her personal trainer, Daniel Westling, in Stockholm earlier this year, coverage in the U.S. mainstream press ranged from almost nothing to nearly zero.

Though Prince William invoked his mother’s memory in the official interview with the wideeyed, deferential journalist, the young couple have doubtless prayed that their marriage will bear no resemblance to his parents’ domestic nightmare. “The stuff of which fairy tales are

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Prince William and Catherine “Kate” Middleton

made,” the officiating Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, had called the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles.

“Killer Runcie,” as he was known in the British army in World War II, had clearly been better as a decorated tank commander than he was at predicting happiness. The archbishop, in fact, got it all wrong. That marriage was a nonstarter: the bride was young, inexperienced, swept up and blinded by the romantic, whirlwind courtship; the groom’s once and future paramour was waiting – not in the wings, but in the church, among the wedding guests.

The Diana-Charles union was not a fairy tale gone tragically wrong because it was never

a fairy tale in the first place. The Kate-William engagement is not so much fairy tale as updated Jane Austen. The pair will marry after an eight-year on-and-off relationship, with the media playing Mrs. Bennett and dropping hints about William popping the question.

Or one could see it as a thoroughly modern college romance, with the young couple starting as friends, eventually “with privileges” (or, in Prince William’s vernacular, having “a good giggle”). There was no “L” word from William in the official interview, suggesting a certain degree of wariness about going too public with their relationship.

One new element for the heir to the British throne (but not, it must be said for his uncles and aunt who have also taken that path) is that he has chosen a commoner as his bride-to-be, which is not a disparaging term but applies to anyone who is neither “of the blood” nor titled nobility. Diana was not royal, but her family had been major English landowners long before the House of Windsor came into existence.

Catherine Middleton comes from a background of middle class, self-made wealth.

She seems level headed enough to withstand the pressure, but in class-conscious Britain hers is still a dramatic leap.The prince, who is perfectly aware of this, seems determined to be protective of his future bride and her family: for example, the word from the Palace is that he will adopt a tough approach towards intrusive paparazzi.

But it’s not just the paparazzi. Diana, younger and clearly more highly strung, used to be reduced to tears by rebukes from the queen when she crossed some imaginary line in royal behavior, such as the occasion when she showed up in the kitchen at Buckingham Palace to ask for an apple.The chef complained to the

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Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mett-Marit

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland

Within the last decade the heir to every European throne except Belgium has wed outside the traditional hunting ground of princes and princesses Crown Prince Frederik and Crown “of the blood” – far Princess Mary of Denmark outside, in a couple of cases.

For example, Crown Prince Frederik Prince Albert of Monaco and his fiancée Charlene Wittsock of Denmark’s wife, Princess Mary, is a former attorney from Tasmania; his counterpart in queen, who summoned Diana. It’s well known Norway, Crown Prince Haakon married a single that palace staffers would imitate Diana rushing mother, whose Colombian former lover had a out of the queen’s study wiping the tears from drug-related record. her eyes.

In the Netherlands, Prince Willem Alexander, As for the paparazzi, perhaps William’s who will eventually succeed his mother, Queen newly appointed temporary adviser, Sir David Beatrix, wed an Argentine investment banker Manning, the former ambassador to Washington, whom he met in New York. Crown Prince could suggest that one way to undermine the Felipe of Spain broke off a relationship with a multi-million-dollar demand by magazines for Scandinavian lingerie model, apparently because paparazzi pictures of William and Kate would be he thought it inappropriate, and personally to flood the market with paparazzi-type pictures informed the Spanish press of his decision. But shot by a palace-appointed photographer, then he married Letitia Ortiz, 38, a well-known including seemingly unauthorized tele-lens Spanish journalist and newscaster, and a divorcee. shots. The British royals never learned to be Still to come is the marriage of Prince Albert forthcoming enough with interesting pictures of Monaco, 52, to Charlene Wittsock, a South for the media, and that’s one reason why the African-born professional swimmer. paparazzi flourish.

Wider travel and the fact that all the princes In European royal circles, Prince William is and princesses went to college (four of them breaking no new ground with Kate: One can in the U.S.) have helped dismantle the social well imagine one of his royal distant cousins in boundaries. Whether the prevailing wind Europe calling to say “Welcome to the club.” blowing through the European royal houses

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will prolong their life or hasten their demise has yet to be seen. The royal marriage bounce in the popularity polls has worked in every country except Sweden, where popular support for the monarchy has recently dropped from 62 percent to 56 percent. But in Denmark, Crown Princess Mary, the Tasmanian, has an 82 percent approval rate.

Unlike the Europeans mentioned, Britain’s Prince William is not the immediate heir to the throne. Prince Charles, his father, is kingin-waiting. But a recent poll showed that more than half (55 percent) of Britons would like it to be William instead. According to the survey, 64 percent of people surveyed thought Prince William and fiancée Kate Middleton would be better by a long shot for the long-term prospects of the British monarchy than Prince Charles and his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall (19 percent).

Crown Prince A dynastic leapfrog by Felipe of William would be a nonSpain and Letizia, starter, according to royal Princess of specialists. But, it’s moot Asturias anyway. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II, now age 84, will have been monarch for 60 years – and that may well turn out to be her first six decades on the throne!

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Washington s o c i a l d i a r y The Social List, Over the Moon, Around Town, and Exclusive Parties, Parties, Parties!

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John & Antonia Gore Favorite book you read this year? And why?

JG: “I’m the Greatest Star” by Robert Viagas because it has interesting profiles of many of the Broadway greats I’ve seen and many that I wish I had seen Favorite hotel in theworld JG: The Ritz in Paris AG: The Mount Nelson in Capetown

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H.E. the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates and Mrs. YOUSEF AL-OTAIBA (Abeer)

Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM ABEL-SMITH (Mimi)

H. E. the Ambassador of Kuwait Sheikh SALEM ABDULLAH AL-SABAH and Sheikha RIMA AL-SABAH

The Honorable and Mrs. TYLER ABELL (Bess)

Mrs. STEWART J.O. ALSOP (Elizabeth)

The Honorable DAVID C. ACHESON

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT ALTMAN (Lynda Carter)

Mr. GLEN ACKERMAN and Mr. ERNESTO SANTALLA

Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL ANSARI (Karen)

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES ABDO (Mai)

Mr. THEO ADAMSTEIN and Ms. OLVIA DEMETRIOU Mr. and Mrs. CHRISTOPHER ADDISON (Sylvia Ripley)

Mr. and Mrs. JAIME APARACIO (Petra) Mrs. R. W. APPLE, JR. (Betsey) Ms. ADRIENNE ARSHT Mr. and Mrs. ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL (Margaret)

Mr. and Mrs. JORGE ADELER (Graziela)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN ARUNDEL (Christine)

Mr. and Mrs. DAVID AGNEW (Lela)

Mr. and Mrs. PETER W. ARUNDEL (Brady)

Favorite local restaurant and what do most like to order there?

JG: Eating at home since we ate out so much in our professional life and we both like to cook

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN E. (“CHIP”) AKRIDGE, III (Sally)

Mrs. MARTIN ATLAS (Liane)

The Honorable MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT

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What’s on your ipod playlist/stereo JG: Sidney Bechet, Rachmaninoff, Ethel Merman

Mr. and Mrs. BRADDOCK ALEXANDER (Denise)

What are your holiday traditions?

Both: At home with family

Senator and Mrs. LAMAR ALEXANDER (Honey)

What is something interesting or surprising that people don’t know about you?

JG: I received the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Gold Medal for Economics AG: My father, Michael Anthony Stepovich, was governor of Alaska

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H.E. the Ambassador of Panama and Mrs. JAIME E. ALEMAN (Pilar) The Honorable and Mrs. CLIFFORD L. ALEXANDER, JR. (Adele)

Mr. JEFFREY BADER and Ms. ROHINI TALALLA Ms. NICOLE BAGLEY The Honorable ELIZABETH FRAWLEY BAGLEY The Honorable HOWARD H. BAKER, JR. and the Honorable NANCY LANDON KASSEBAUM

H.E. the Ambassador of Yemen ABDULWAHAB A. AL-HAJJRI

Ms. BRITTAIN (“BRITTY”) BARDES

Justice and Mrs. SAMUEL ALITO, JR. (Martha-Ann)

Mr. ROBERT BARNETT and Ms. RITA BRAVER

H.E. the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia and Mrs. ADEL BIN AHMED AL-JUBEIR (Farah)

Mr. and Mrs. ALEXANDER BARTH (Mary)

Mr. and Mrs. JOE L. ALLBRITTON (Barbara Jean)

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES L. BARTLETT (Martha)

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT L. ALLBRITTON (Elena)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN S. BEALE, JR. (Louise)

H.E. the Ambassador of Oman HUNAINA ALMUGHAIRY and H.E. the Ambassador of Oman to the United Nations FUAD AL-HINAI

Mr. and Mrs. HARRY BELIN (Susan)

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Mr. and Mrs. MORTON BENDER (Grace)

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SOCIAL LIST The Honorable and Mrs. WILLIAM J. BENNETT (Elayne) The Honorable and Mrs. WAYNE L. BERMAN (Lea) Mr. and Mrs. ADAM K. BERNSTEIN (Tracy) The Honorable and Mrs. STUART A. BERNSTEIN (Wilma) Mr. MAX N. BERRY Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, III (Madzy) The Vice President of the United States and Mrs. JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR. (Jill) Mr. and Mrs. R. HUNTER BIDEN (Kathleen) The Honorable and Mrs. JAMES H. BILLINGTON (Marjorie)

Ms. MAGALEN OHRSTROM BRYANT

Mr. TOM CARVER and Ms. KATTY KAY

Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM L. BRYANT (Aliki)

Mrs. EUGENE B. CASEY (Betty)

Mr. and Mrs. MARK BRZEZINSKI (Natalia)

Mr. and Mrs. HENRY C. CASHEN, II (Diana)

The Honorable and Mrs. ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI (Emilie)

Mr. and Mrs. ENRICO CECCHI (Andrea) Mr. and Mrs. GIUSEPPE CECCHI (Mercedes)

Mrs. DAVID S. BRUCE (Janet)

Mr. KEVIN ST. C. CHAFFEE

Mrs. RUTH HALE BUCHANAN

Mrs. DAVID CHALLINOR (Joan)

Mr. and Mrs. WILEY T. BUCHANAN, III (Janis) Mr. and Mrs. CHRISTOPHER T. BUCKLEY (Lucy) Mr. and Mrs. CHILDS F. BURDEN (Elaine) Mr. and Mrs. I. TOWNSEND BURDEN, III (Valerie) Mrs. EDWARD B. BURLING, JR. (Frida)

Mrs. WORTH BINGHAM (Joan)

Mrs. HOWARD L. BURRIS (Barbara)

The Honorable and Mrs. ROBERT O. BLAKE (Sylvia)

Mrs. GAHL HODGES BURT

H.E. the Ambassador of Singapore HENG CHEE CHAN Right Reverend JOHN BRYSON CHANE, Episopal Bishop of Washington, and Mrs. Chane (Karen) Mrs. ALDUS H. CHAPIN (Dolly) The Honorable and Mrs. JOHN E. CHAPOTON (Sally)

The Honorable RICHARD R. BURT

The Honorable and Mrs. O. DONALDSON CHAPOTON (Mary Jo)

Mr. and Mrs. MARVIN P. BUSH (Margaret)

Mrs. KEVIN P. CHARLES (Ellen)

The Honorable HARRY FLOOD BYRD, JR.

Prince and Princess DAVID CHAVCHAVADZE (Eugenie)

The Honorable LINDY BOGGS

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H.E. the Ambassador of Lebanon and Mrs. ANTOINE CHEDID (Nicole)

Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS HALE BOGGS (Barbara)

Mr. and Mrs. CALVIN CAFRITZ (Jane)

Mrs. SAMUEL E. BOGLEY (Rose Marie)

Mr. and Mrs. CONRAD CAFRITZ (Ludmila)

The Honorable AVIS T. BOHLEN and Mr. DAVID P. CALLEO

Mrs. PEGGY COOPER CAFRITZ

The Honorable and Mrs. MICHAEL CHERTOFF (Meryl)

Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM N. CAFRITZ (“Buffy”)

Mr. and Mrs. R. J. CICERO (Catherine Conover)

Mrs. CHARLES A. CAMALIER, JR. (Anne)

Senator BARBARA BOXER and Mr. STEWART BOXER

Mrs. BRICE MCADOO CLAGETT (Diana)

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES A. CAMALIER, III (Patricia)

Mr. BENJAMIN C. BRADLEE and Ms. SALLY QUINN Enrico and Andrea Cecchi

The Honorable and Mrs. RAYMOND C. CLEVENGER, III (Leslie)

Ms. LORI D. CAMALIER

Mr. ANTONY BLINKEN and Ms. EVAN RYAN Representative and Mrs. ROY BLUNT Mrs. FRANCIS BOARDMAN (Ann) Representative and Mrs. John Boehner (Debbie)

Count and Countess PEDER BONDE (Clarissa)

(Photo by(Katherine) Joseph Allen) Mr. and Mrs. DAVID G. BRADLEY

Mrs. B. RIONDA BRAGA (Mary) Miss EDITH H. (“BOBBIE”) BREWSTER

The Honorable RICHARD B. CHENEY and the Honorable LYNNE B. CHENEY

Mr. and Mrs. F. DAVIS CAMALIER (Lynda)

The Honorable WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON and The Secretary of State, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL CANTACUZENE (Elizabeth) Mr. and Mrs. RODION CANTACUZENE (Melissa)

Mr. and Mrs. CALVIN H. COBB, JR. (Olive) Mr. and Mrs. JOHN COCHRAN (Barbara)

Justice and Mrs. STEPHEN G. BREYER (Joanna)

Mr. L. MICHAEL CANTOR and Ms. JENNY SPRINGER

Mr. and Mrs. ARTURO E. BRILLEMBOURG (Hilda Ochoa)

The Honorable and Mrs. MORTIMER CAPLIN (Ruth)

The Honorable NANCY G. BRINKER

Mr. and Mrs. BERNARD J. CARL (Joan)

The Honorable and Mrs. WILLIAM E. BROCK, III (Sandra)

Ms. MARGARET CARLSON

Mr. and Mrs. CARL B. COLBY (Dorothy)

Mr. and Mrs. RAYMOND C. BROPHY (Jeanette)

The Honorable and Mrs. RICHARD W. CARLSON (Patricia)

The Honorable and Mrs. WILLIAM T. COLEMAN (Lovida)

The Honorable ANN BROWN and Mr. DONALD A. BROWN

Mr. and Mrs. TUCKER CARLSON (Susan)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN COLES (Julie)

The Honorable and Mrs. FRANK C. CARLUCCI (Marcia)

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES N. (“CHUCK”) CONCONI (Janelle)

Mr. JAMES CARNEY and Ms. CLAIRE SHIPMAN

The Honorable ESTHER COOPERSMITH

Mr. and Mrs. JORGE E. CARNICERO (Jacqueline)

Mr. and Mrs. LEONARD H. BROWN, III (Diane Ray) Mr. and Mrs. PRESTON BROWN (Eva)

Senator and Mrs. THAD COCHRAN (Rose) Mr. and Mrs. ANDREW COCKBURN (Leslie) The Honorable and Mrs. WILLIAM S. COHEN

(Janet Langhart)

Mrs. RONALD H. BROWN (Alma)

Mr. and Mrs. JORGE J. CARNICERO (Rima)

Mr. DAVID CORN and Ms. WELMOED LAANSTRA

Senator and Mrs. Scott P. Brown (Gail Huff)

Mrs. CONSTANCE CARTER

Dr. and Mrs. MILTON CORN (Gilan Tocco)

Mr. E. EDWARD BRUCE

Mrs. MCGHEE CARTER (Marcia)

Mr. and Mrs. WARREN J. COX (Claire)

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Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT H. CRAFT, JR. (Margaret) Mrs. DILLON-SMYTH CROCKER (Roma) Dr. and Mrs. WILLIAM H. CROCKER (Jean) Mr. CHARLES T. (“CHICK”) CUDLIP Ms. ANDREA BRUCE CURRIER Ms. LAVINIA CURRIER The Honorable and Mrs. WALTER L. CUTLER (Didi) Mr. and Mrs. JAMES M. CUTTS (June)

D Mr. and Mrs. LEO A. DALY, III (Grega) Viscountess ALBERT DE PONTON D’AMECOURT (Gertrude)

Outerbridge & Georgina Horsey Favorite book you read this year?

“Safe Passages: Highways, Wildlife, and Habitat Connectivity” Signature entertaining hallmarks A little chaos and mayhem and, of course, Champagne Favorite hotel in the world?

Casapueblo, Punta del Este, Uruguay What’s on your ipod playlist/stereo Françoise Hardy, Carlos Gardel, U2, Joseph Calleja, Jefferson Airplane What are your holiday traditions?

Celebrating Epiphany with a galette des rois and crowning a king and queen while burning frankincense and myrrh Something interesting or surprising that people don’t know about you?

Outerbridge’s great-grandfather founded the Outerbridge Horsey Distillery Co. Burkittsville, Md., and produced the legendary Very Fine Old Horsey Rye Whiskey.

What charity or cause is closest to your heart?

Georgetown Ministry Center What do you collect?

1830s Parisian porcelain, architecture books, ancestral portraits, artwork by Howard Carr

Left: Carolyn Hagner Shaw (seated) and her daughter, Carolyn Shaw Murray, decided who was in or out in Washington society for decades. Center: Shaw’s mother, Helen Ray Hagner, founded the “Green Book” in 1930. Right: an early 1930’s edition lists Mrs. Truxtun Beale, the last owner of “Decatur House,” and Mr. and Mrs F. Lammot Belin, who lived at “Evermay.” (Photos courtesy the “Green Book”)

Bible of Belonging “The Green Book,” Washington’s venerable social arbiter, celebrates 80 years of mandating who’s in and who’s out

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hose whose names appear in the “Social List of Washington” reenact a little ritual when the annual edition of the exclusive directory (known as the “Green Book” for its emerald faux suede covers) arrives in the mail each October.

First they look to see if their own names are still listed, and then those of their friends, followed by anyone who may have been “dropped” for various reasons. Finally they search for newcomers included for the first time. That’s when the phone lines – these days just as likely to be emails, twitters and texts – start buzzing.

“People kill to get into the ‘Green Book,’” former White House social secretary Letitia Baldrige once told a reporter. “They spend their whole life trying. It is so important to them.”

In an age of “social networking” websites and ubiquitous magazine rosters of the “richest,” “most beautiful” and “most powerful,” some might view the publication as a quaint anachronism dating back to an era when WASP bloodlines and “old money” ties were of paramount importance.

Thomas J. Murray, whose family has been separating the hoi from the polloi since the “Green Book” was first published in 1930, begs to differ.

“We have continually sought out and listed those in the metropolitan area who have dedicated themselves to the Washington community through their efforts and success in philanthropy, business and civic organizations,”

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he says, pointing out that the “Green Book,” while remaining a venerable local social register, is also a ready-reference guide few can do without if they wish to be au courant in the nation’s capital.“We maintain up-to-date listings for all the branches of the U.S. government along with a complete listing of embassies and ambassadors, Murray, 86, says, noting that the many daily calls to his office seeking protocol advice “are testament enough to the relevant role the “Green Book” plays in Washington.”

That role has been significant since 1930, when Helen Ray Hagner first began publishing an annual directory based on the guest lists she compiled for debutante parties and other major soirées in the nation’s capital. Her daughter, Carolyn “Callie” Hagner Shaw, took the reins in 1942 and held sway for the next 35 years as Washington’s social shepherdess,“dividing the sheep from the goats,” so to speak, while upholding tradition with a firm – some would say rigid – hand.While Shaw was known to inveigh against presidential nicknames (“‘President Jimmy,’ now really!”) and the gradual disappearance of white-tie diplomatic receptions at the White House, she did see fit to finally integrate the “Green Book” in 1971 by including the first (non-office-holding) African Americans.

Callie’s daughter, Jean Shaw Murray (Thomas Murray’s late wife) took liberalization a few steps further when she ran the operation from 1977 until her death in 1986. Her first ruling was that the stigma of divorce

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would no longer be an impediment to a “Green Book” listing. “If we didn’t have divorced and separated people,” she reasoned at the time,“we wouldn’t have a book anymore.”

Mrs. Murray also ended the practice of announcing who had been dropped each year (probably to avoid potential lawsuits, Mr. Murray says).

The eagerly awaited annual press release always made headlines when newspapers reported juicy details of the bad behavior or unpleasant notoriety of those whose names had been struck.The un-cordially ousted occasionally struck back, often with droll results.When White House aide Hamilton Jordan was removed after a messy divorce and allegations of ungentlemanly behavior, he laughingly told the Washington Post: “My burden is heavy. I must pick up the pieces of my life and continue.”

The famous card file with the names of everyone who has ever applied or been dropped still exists although newer entries no longer contain notations like “B.D.” (Bad Drunk) and “O.F.” (Old Fool) as before. While genteel alcoholism is tolerated, public brawling or hairpulling incidents remain grounds for dismissal. “The Green Book” still takes a stand against joint listings of unmarried live-togethers but now allows the once-verboten use of “Ms.” by women who request it.

“The ‘Green Book’ has not changed significantly over the years because the need for proper protocol and precedence has not changed significantly,” the publication’s newly appointed editor, Beth Ann Newton, says, noting that the product “may have been founded 80 years ago but our phone never stops ringing with questions about how to do something the ‘right’ way.”

Truly good manners never go out of style.

— Kevin Chaffee

Cordially Dropped

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OFFENSE

Sherman Adams

Accepting a vicuña coat and other gifts while in office

Ben Bradlee

Messy divorce

Ramsay Clarke

Far left political activities

Justice William O. Douglas

Marrying a woman young enough to be his granddaughter

Justice Abe Fortas

Ethics scandal

Jean Harris

Murdering her lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower

Alger Hiss

Espionage conviction

Rep. Wayne Hayes

Planting his mistress Elizabeth Ray on the House of Representatives payroll

Barbara Howar

Blabbing about Lynda Bird Johnson’s wedding plans to reporters

Hamilton Jordan

Allegations of coarse behavior in public

Rep. Wilbur Mills

Drunken cavorting with stripper Fanne Fox in the Tidal Basin

John and Martha Mitchell

Watergate conspiracy activities (him); bad press for erratic behavior (her)

Tongsun Park

Indictment for bribery in the “Koreagate” scandal

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“Green Book” publisher Thomas J. Murray and Editor Beth Ann Newton (Photo by Tony Powell)

The Green Team Q&A WITH the EDITOR AND PUBLISHER WASHINGTON LIFE: How is the “Green Book” relevant to life in 21st century Washington?

BETH ANN NEWTON: The “Green Book” has continually sought out and listed those who have dedicated themselves to the larger Washington community through their efforts and success in philanthropy, business and social and civic organizations. We maintain the most up-to-date listings for embassies and [top officials] of the U.S. government. The many daily calls to our office regarding questions of protocol and precedence are testament to the relevant role the “Green Book” plays in life in the nation’s capital.

WL: Is there really a secret committee who votes on admission to the “Green Book”?

BAN: Yes. Prospective members must receive two or more written nominations from current members.

These are given to the committee for consideration.

WL: Do people get dropped for bad behavior and if so, what constitutes bad behavior?

THOMAS J. MURRAY: Being in the book does not guarantee staying in the book. As for what constitutes “bad

behavior” – let’s just say you know it when you see it.

WL: What is your favorite “Green Book” tale from the past?

TJM: A woman once called to ask how to eat an orange at the captains table on the QE2! She was quite concerned that she could not find the answer in any of her etiquette books. Another favorite was the widow who asked if she could dress her recently deceased husband in a tuxedo for a viewing that would be held before 6 p.m.

WL: Are you planning an annual magazine-like supplement similar to the “Social Register Observer.”

BAN: We’re looking for ways to showcase the rich history that the Shaw-Murray family has preserved through 80 years of events and stories about the “Green Book.” One, is the launch of our first-ever website (www.thegreenbookdc.com), which we will be expanding in the months to come. There are also other ways in which we intend on connecting on a more regular basis with our “Green Book” subscribers, honorees, and friends, and a publication similar to the “Social Register Observer” may be one of those ways.

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Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM H. (“MIKE”) DU PONT (Rein)

Representative and Mrs. RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN (Virginia)

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT DUVALL (Luciana Pedraza)

The Honorable and Mrs. WILLIAM E. FRENZEL (Ruth)

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Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS FRIEDMAN (Ann) Mr. and Mrs. ALFRED FRIENDLY, JR. (Marie Louise/“Pie”)

Mr. MARK D. EIN

H.E. the Ambassador of Liechtenstein CLAUDIA FRITSCHE

Ms. SUSAN EISENHOWER Mr. JAMES P. ELDER, JR.

Mr. DAVID FRUM and Ms. DANIELLE CRITTENDEN

Mrs. ANNE LIVINGSTON EMMET Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD ENGLAND, SR. (Lois)

Mr. . DAVID A. DECKELBAUM

The Reverend Monsignor JOHN J. ENZLER

H.E. the Ambassador of Japan and Mrs. ICHIRO FUJISAKI (Yoriko)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN (“JACK”) DEGIOIA (Theresa)

Mr. XAVIER F. EQUIHUA

The Honorable and Mrs. CRAIG L. FULLER (Karen)

Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM A. DELPHOS (Elizabeth)

Mr. and Mrs. RICARDO ERNST (Isabel)

Mr. PHILIP DEUTCH and Ms. MARNE LEVINE H.E. the Ambassador of Spain and

Dr. and Mrs. AHMAD R. ESFANDIARY (Judy)

Mrs. JORGE DEZCALLAR (Teresa Valente)

Mrs. BENJAMIN C. EVANS, JR. (Jan)

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES J. DIBONA (Evelyn)

The Honorable and Mrs. JACK EVANS (Michele)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN DICKERSON (Ann)

Ms. PAGE EVANS

Mr. and Mrs. DOUGLAS GANSLER (Laura)

Mr. and Mrs. C. WYATT DICKERSON (Tandy)

Mrs. ROWLAND EVANS, JR. (Katherine)

Dr. and Mrs. JACQUES GANSLER (Leah)

Representative and Mrs. JOHN D. DINGELL (Deborah/“Debbie”) Mr. BARRY DIXON and Mr. MICHAEL SCHMIDT H. E. the Ambassador of Indonesia and Mrs. DINI PATTI DJALAL (Rosa) The Honorable and Mrs. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD (Jacki)

Mr. and Mrs. A. HUDA FAROUKI (Samia)

Mr. SAM DONALDSON and Ms. JAN SMITH

Dr. and Mrs. RONALD DOZORETZ (Beth) Ms. ELIZABETH DREW The Honorable and Mrs. KENNETH M. DUBERSTEIN (Jacqueline) Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD DUBIN (Elizabeth) Mr. and Mrs. SPOTTSWOOD P. DUDLEY (Blair) The Honorable and Mrs. ROBERT W. DUEMLING (Louisa) The Honorable JOSEPH D. DUFFEY

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Ms. ANN GERACIMOS Mr. and Mrs. BERNARD S. GEWIRZ (Sarah) Mr. and Mrs. CARL S. GEWIRZ (Nancy) Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL K. GEWIRZ (Cleo) Mr. and Mrs. STEVEN B. GEWIRZ (Katrina)

Mr. and Mrs. RAUL J. FERNANDEZ (Jean-Marie)

The Honorable and Mrs. JOSEPH B. GILDENHORN (Alma)

The Honorable JULIE FINLEY

Mrs. CHRISTINE DOWNEY

The Honorable JULIUS GENACHOWSKI and Ms. RACHEL GOSLINS

Mrs. SYDNEY (“NINI”) MCNIFF FERGUSON Mrs. GEORGE M. FERRIS, JR. (Nancy)

(Photo by James R. Brantley)

Reverend WILLIAM GEORGE, S.J.

The Mayor of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. ADRIAN M. FENTY (Michelle)

The Secretary of Labor and Mrs. SHAUN DONOVAN and Ms. LIZA GILBERT Melissa Moss and Jonathan Silver Miss AMANDA DOWNES

Dr. and Mrs. MATTHEW B. GAVIN (Holidae Hayes)

Mrs. NORMAN FARQUHAR (Elinor)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN DONOVAN (Linda)

Countess ARCHIBALD DOUGLASS (Margaretta)

Mr. and Mrs. JOSEPH S. GALLI (Shelly)

Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM B. GARRISON, JR. (Mary)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN M. FAHEY, JR. (Heidi)

The Honorable PAULA J. DOBRIANSKY

Mr. and Mrs. PLACIDO DOMINGO (Marta)

Mr. and Mrs. STANLEY N. GAINES (Gay)

F The Honorable and Mrs. RICHARD M. FAIRBANKS, III (Shannon)

The Honorable ROBERT J. (“BOB”) DOLE and the Honorable ELIZABETH DOLE

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Mr. and Mrs. MELVYN J. ESTRIN (Suellen)

Mrs. CHRISTINA (“INA”) GINSBURG The Honorable and Mrs. DOUGLAS H. GINSBURG

Mr. JOHN D. FIRESTONE

(Dorothy/“Deecy”)

Mrs. HAMILTON FISH (Mary Ann)

Justice RUTH BADER GINSBURG

Mrs. WILLIAM H. G. FITZGERALD (Annelise)

Miss SUSAN GINSBURG

Mr. and Mrs. ROLAND A. FLAMINI (Diane) Ms. DORETTE FLEISCHMANN

The Honorable and Mrs. DANIEL R. GLICKMAN (Rhoda)

Mr. and Mrs. MAXIMO FLÜGELMAN (Sedi)

Mr. and Mrs. DONALD GLICKMAN (Mia)

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT T. FOLEY (Carol)

Ms. JULEANNA GLOVER

Mr. and Mrs. LEE M. FOLGER (Juliet)

Mr. and Mrs. STEPHEN GOLDBERG (Diana)

Mrs. NANCY (“BITSEY”) MCELROY FOLGER

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN C. GORE (Antonia/“Toni”)

Mr. and Mrs. NEIL C. FOLGER (Izette)

Mr. DONALD E. GRAHAM

Mrs. YOLANDE FOX

Mr. and Mrs. STEPHEN GRAHAM (Cathy)

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES C. FREE (Ann)

The Honorable C. BOYDEN GRAY

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Mr. and Mrs. JOHN D. GRAY (Melissa Phipps)

Mrs. JOHN W. HECHINGER, SR. (June)

The Honorable VINCENT C. GRAY

Mr. MICHAEL F. HEGGESTAD

Mr. GEORGE GRAYSON

Mr. and Mrs. J. RODERICK HELLER, III (Kay)

Mrs. HERMEN GREENBERG (Monica)

Mrs. RICHARD M. HELMS (Cynthia)

Mrs. DAVID GREENEWALT (Charlotte)

Mr. C. WOLCOTT HENRY

The Honorable ALAN GREENSPAN and Ms. ANDREA MITCHELL

Mr. JOHN HENRY and Ms. ANN CRITTENDEN

Mr. and Mrs. G. LAUDER GREENWAY, II

(Abigail Adams)

Ms. NELSE L. (“KUBIE”) GREENWAY Mr. DAVID GREGORY and Ms. BETH WILKINSON Mr. and Mrs. ANDERSON GRENNAN (Mae Haney) Mrs. RUTH NOBLE GROOM Mr. and Mrs. EDWIN S. GROSVENOR (Deborah) Mr. and Mrs. GILBERT M. GROSVENOR (Mary Helen)

The Honorable BONNIE MCELVEEN HUNTER and Mr. BYNUM M. HUNTER

I Mr. and Mrs. DAVID IGNATIUS (Eve)

Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL HERRALD (Susan)

The Honorable and Mrs. PAUL R. IGNATIUS (Nancy)

Mrs. ANITA G. HERRICK

Mr. JOHN PETERS IRELAN

Mrs. CHRISTIAN A. HERTER, JR. (Catherine)

Mr. and Mrs. WALTER ISAACSON (Cathy)

Mr. JULIO E. HEURTEMATTE, JR.

Mr. and Mrs. C. OLIVER ISELIN, III (Swannie)

Mr. ROBERT M. HIGDON, JR.

Mr. and Mrs. CHRISTOPHER ISHAM (Jennifer)

Mr. ROBIN HILL

Mrs. EUGENE ISTOMIN (Marta)

The Honorable RODERICK M. HILLS and the Honorable CARLA HILLS Mrs. JOSEPH HIRSHHORN (Olga)

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Mr. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS and Ms. CAROL BLUE

Dr. and Mrs. AARON G. JACKSON (Alexine)

The Honorable BRANDON H. GROVE, JR.

Mr. JIM HOAGLAND and Ms. JANE STANTON HITCHCOCK

Mr. and Mrs. SIMON T. JACOBSEN (Ruth)

Mr. and Mrs. ACHILLE MURAT GUEST (Judith)

Mrs. WALTER J. HODGES (Margaret)

The Honorable and Mrs. ANDREW JACOVIDES (Pamela)

Mrs. CHARLES E. GUGGENHEIM (Marion)

Mr. and Mrs. CHRISTIAN C. HOHENLOHE (Nora)

Mr. and Mrs. SAID JAWAD (Shamim)

The Honorable and Mrs. CARLOS M. GUTIERREZ (“Edi”)

The Attorney General ERIC H. HOLDER, JR. and Dr. SHARON MALONE

Mr. JOHN JEPPSON, III

Mrs. MELVILLE BELL GROSVENOR (Anne) Miss SARAH A. GROSVENOR

Mr. and Mrs. WALLACE F. HOLLADAY (Wilhelmina)

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Mr. and Mrs. WALLACE F. HOLLADAY, JR. (Winton)

H. E. the Ambassador of Sweden and Mrs. JONAS HAFSTRÖM (Eva)

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT HOLLENSTEINER

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT M. HAFT (Mary)

The Honorable and Mrs. STUART W. HOLLIDAY (Gwen)

(Letitia Baldrige)

Mrs. GILBERT HAHN, JR. (Margot) Mrs. ALEXANDER M. HAIG, JR. (Patricia) Mrs. NAJEEB E. HALABY (Libby) Mr. and Mrs. GREGORY HALL (Wendy Adeler) The Honorable and Mrs. LLOYD N. HAND (Ann) Mr. and Mrs. FRANKLIN L. HANEY, SR. (“Emmy”) Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD HANLON (Pamela) Mr. THOMAS HARDHART and Ms. VIRGINIA SHORE

The Honorable and Mrs. LINWOOD HOLTON (Virginia/“Jinks”) Mr. and Mrs. H. CARTER HOOD (Amanda) Mrs. OUTERBRIDGE HORSEY (Mary) Mr. and Mrs. OUTERBRIDGE HORSEY (Georgina) Mr. and Mrs. JOHN K. HOSKINSON (Ana) Mr. and Mrs. ARTHUR A. HOUGHTON, III (Peggy) Mrs. LINDA L. HOUGHTON

Mr. and Mrs. HUGH NEWELL JACOBSEN (Robin)

Mr. and Mrs. FREEBORN GARRETSON JEWETT, JR. (Joan) The Honorable and Mrs. CLAY JOHNSON, III (Ann) Mr. and Mrs. JAMES A. JOHNSON (Maxine Isaacs) Mr. ROBERT (“ROBIN”) JOHNSON H.E. the Ambassador of the Netherlands RENÉE JONES-BOS and Mr. RICHARD HUW JONES Mr. and Mrs. VERNON E. JORDAN (Ann) Mrs. J. HOWARD JOYNT, III (Carol)

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Mr. MICHAEL KAHN Mr. MICHAEL KAISER Mrs. ALAN I. KAY (Dianne) Mr. and Mrs. MARVIN L. KAY (Dolly)

Representative JANE HARMAN and Mr. SIDNEY HARMAN

Mrs. EDMOND N. HOWAR (Margaret) Mrs. PATRICIA E. HOWAR

Dr. WILLIAM A. HASELTINE

General (U.S. M.C., Ret.) and Mrs. P. X. KELLY (Barbara)

Mrs. RAYMOND J. HOWAR (Pamela)

Mr. TODD HATHAWAY and Ms. NORA MACCOBY

Mrs. JACK KEMP (Joanne)

Miss JANET A. HOWARD

Ms. KAY KENDALL

Count and Countess JEHAN DE LA HAYESAINT HILAIRE (Constance Milstein)

Representative STENY H. HOYER

Justice and Mrs. ANTHONY M. KENNEDY (Mary)

Mr. and Mrs. HADLAI A. HULL (Ann)

Mrs. EDWARD M. KENNEDY (Victoria)

Mr. and Mrs. STEPHEN A. HAYES (Theo)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN E. HUNNICUTT (Catherine)

Senator JOHN F. KERRY and Ms. TERESA HEINZ

Mr. and Mrs. WEBB COOK HAYES, IV (Sara)

Mr. AL HUNT and Ms. JUDY WOODRUFF

Mr. JOSEPH KEUSCH and Ms. JAN NEUHARTH

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The Very Reverend and Mrs. SAMUEL T. LLOYD, III (Marguerite)

Representative DORIS MATSUI

Mr. and Mrs. JAN M. LODAL (Elizabeth)

Mr. and Mrs. CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS (Kathleen)

Mrs. JOHN G. LOFFT (Vibeke)

Mr. ERNEST N. MAY, JR.

Mr. and Mrs. SCOTT ALAN LOGAN (Lydia)

Mr. and Mrs. TERENCE R. (“TERRY”) MCAULIFFE (Dorothy)

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES PILLSBURY LORD (Gay) Mr. WINSTON BAO LORD

Senator and Mrs. JOHN McCAIN (Cindy) Mrs. JOHN S. MCCAIN, JR. (Roberta)

Mr. and Mrs. EDWARD KOCH (Doro Bush)

His Eminence Cardinal THEODORE E. MCCARRICK

Mr. and Mrs. TED KOPPEL (Grace Anne)

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The Honorable TOM C. KOROLOGOS and the Honorable ANN MCLAUGHLIN KOROLOGOS

The Honorable and Mrs. JOHN D. MACOMBER (Caroline)

Mrs. POLLY KRAFT

Mrs. WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD (Millicent)

Mr. JOSEPH KRAKORA

Mrs. CHRISTOPHER J. MAKINS (Wendy)

The Honorable and Mrs. THOMAS F. (“MACK”) MCLARTY, III (Donna)

Mrs. MARTIN F. MALARKEY (Elizabeth)

Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD MCLELLAN (Diana)

The Honorable and Mrs. FREDERIC V. MALEK (Marlene)

The Honorable JULIETTE CLAGETT MCLENNAN

Mr. and Mrs. FREDERIC W. MALEK (Brialan)

Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM F. MCSWEENY (Dorothy)

The Honorable and Mrs. CHARLES T. MANATT (Kathleen)

Mrs. GILBERT D. MEAD (Jaylee)

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT KOGOD (Arlene)

L Mr. and Mrs. CAMERON J. LACLAIR, JR. (Mary) The Secretary of Transportation and Mrs. RAYMOND H. (“RAY”) LAHOOD (Kathy) The Honorable and Mrs. JAMES C. LANGDON, JR. (Sandy) Mr. and Mrs. CHISWELL DABNEY LANGHORNE, JR. (Barbara) Mr. and Mrs. ANTHONY LANIER (Isabelle) Mr. and Mrs. CLIMIS G. LASCARIS (Carol) Mr. W. DAVID LAWSON, IV The Honorable and Mrs. PAUL LAXALT (Carol) The Honorable and Mrs. JIM LEACH (Elisabeth)

Senator MITCH MCCONNELL and the Honorable ELAINE LAN CHAO Ms. DOROTHY MCGHEE

Mrs. ROBERT S. MCNAMARA (Diana)

Ms. ANN WALKER MARCHANT

H. E. the Ambassador of Morocco AZIZ MEKOUAR and Mrs. MEKOUAR (Maria Felice)

Representative EDWARD J. MARKEY and Dr. SUSAN BLUMENTHAL

Mrs. PAUL MELLON (Rachel/“Bunny”) Mr. DAVID L. MERCER

Mr. and Mrs. DAVID S. MARRIOTT (Carrie) Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD E. MARRIOTT (Nancy) Mr. and Mrs. J. WILLARD MARRIOTT, JR. (Donna Rae) Mr. and Mrs. FORREST E. MARS, JR. (Deborah) Ms. JACQUELINE BADGER MARS

Mrs. PHILIP MERRILL (Eleanor) Mr. and Mrs. THEODORE A. MILES (Carlotta/“Buffy”) Dr. and Mrs. WENDELL G. MILES (Ann) Mrs. G. WILLIAM MILLER (Ariadna) Mr. and Mrs. JAMES P. MILLS, JR. (Deborah)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN F. MARS (Adrienne) Mrs. VIRGINIA CRETELLA MARS

The Honorable and Mrs. GEORGE J. MITCHELL (Heather)

Dr. and Mrs. LASALLE D. LEFFALL, JR. (Ruth)

The Honorable CAPRICIA P. MARSHALL and Dr. ROBERT MARSHALL

The Honorable MARY V. MOCHARY

Mr. LASALLE D. LEFFALL, III

Ms. CANDYCE MARTIN

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES LEHRER (Kate)

Mr. GUY MARTIN

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT LEHRMAN (Aimee)

Mr. JUREK MARTIN and Ms. KATHLEEN NEWLAND

Senator and Mrs. PATRICK LEAHY (Marcelle) Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT E. LEE, IV (Carew)

Mr. and Mrs. SAMUEL LEHRMAN (Susan) Mr. JAMES H. LEMON, JR. Mr. and Mrs. THEODORE J. (“TED”) LEONSIS (Lynn)

The Honorable and Mrs. ANTHONY J. (“TOBY”) MOFFETT, JR. (Myra) Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT J. MONAHAN, JR. (Laurie) Mr. and Mrs. C. BRAXTON MONCURE (Deborah) Dr. ROBERT MONTGOMERY and Ms. DENYCE GRAVES

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN J. MASON (JoAnn) Mr. and Mrs. JOHN MURDOCH MATHESON (Susan)

Mrs. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD (Lucy)

Mrs. BONNIE BUCHANAN MATHESON

Mrs. WENDY BURDEN MORGAN

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES T. MATHESON (Julie)

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT MOSES (Patricia Kluge)

Mr. and Mrs. MALCOLM MATHESON, III (Gail)

Mr. ERIC L. MOTLEY

Mr. ROBERT R. MATHESON

Mr. and Mrs. ROGER H. MUDD (Emma)

Mr. CHARLES B. MATHIAS

Mrs. PAT MUNROE (Mary)

The Honorable and Mrs. HENRIK LILJEGREN (Nil)

Mrs. CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS (Ann)

Mr. and Mrs. CHRISTOPHER MURRAY (Carlotta)

Mrs. R. ROBERT LINOWES (Ada)

Mr. and Mrs. EDWARD J. MATHIAS (Dale)

Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS J. MURRAY (Evelyn)

Mr. and Mrs. DANI LEVINAS (Mirella) Mr. DAVID LEVY and Ms. CAROLE FELD Mr. and Mrs. H. FINLAY LEWIS (“Willee”) Senator and Mrs. JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN (Hadassah)

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P General (U.S.M.C. Ret.) and Mrs. PETER PACE (Lynne) Her Imperial Majesty FARAH PAHLAVI His Imperial Highness Prince REZA PAHLAVI and Her Imperial Highness Princess YASMINE PAHLAVI

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Maximo & Sedi Flügelman Favorite book you read this year?

MF: “Feast of the Goat” by Mario Vargas-Llosa SF: “‘Einstein” by Water Isaacson Favorite hotel in the world?

BOTH: Palacio Duhau Park Hyatt in Buenos Aires, a grand converted mansion with a lovely garden What’s on your ipod playlist/stereo?

MF: Richard Strauss, “Four Last Songs; ”Serge Prokofieff, “Second Piano Concerto” What is something interesting or surprising that people don’t know about you?

MF: International financiers have no clue that I also am a concert music composer.

SF: If I had not chosen to be a clinical psychologist, I would have loved to be a professional tango dancer!

What charity or cause is closest to your heart?

Both: The Châteauville Foundation’s Castleton Festival for opera and symphonic music every summer in Rappahannock County, Va. , the three-year-old brainchild of Maestro Lorin Maazel and his talented wife Dietlinde

James Woodyard (Photo by Joseph Allen)

Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM CUSHING PALEY (Alison) Her Royal Highness INFANTA CRISTINA and His Excellency IÑAKI URDANGARÍN, Duke of Palma de Majorca The Honorable and Mrs. CHARLES S. PASHAYAN (Sheila) Mr. and Mrs. RICHARD PAWLIK

(Deborah Gore Dean)

Mr. and Mrs. MALCOLM E. (“MIKE”) PEABODY (Pamela) Mr. and Mrs. PAYSON R. PEABODY (Karin) Mr. and Mrs. HAVEN N. B. PELL (Mina) The Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives NANCY PELOSI and Mr. PAUL PELOSI Mr. MARK PENN and Ms. NANCY JACOBSON The Honorable and Mrs. CHARLES H. PERCY (Loraine) Mr. LUCIAN PERKINS and Ms. SARAH TANGUY Mr. and Mrs. DAVID PERLIN (Skye Raiser) Mr. JOSEPH G. PERPICH and Ms. CATHY SULZBERGER Dr. and Mrs. MICHAEL J. PETITE (Jeannette) Mrs. HAROLD C. PETROWITZ (Carmen)

Mr. ROY PFAUTCH

Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS A. REED (Vanessa)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN E. PFLIEGER (Donna)

Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES H. (“CHIP”) REID, JR. (Nina Black)

The Honorable and Mrs. THOMAS R. PICKERING (Alice)

H.E. the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See, Archbishop PIETRO SAMBI Mr. and Mrs. KYLE SAMPERTON (Kim)

Mr. CHRISTOPHER REITER

Mr. and Mrs. ROGER SANT (Victoria/“Vicki”)

Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL P. PILLSBURY (Susan)

Mr. and Mrs. RANDOLPH W. RENCHARD (Lila)

Mr. and Mrs. CHRISTOPHER S. SARGENT (Ann)

Mr. and Mrs. PHILIP W. PILLSBURY, JR. (Nina)

Mr. JAMES V. REYES

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN A. SARGENT (Susan)

Mr. and Mrs. WALTER H. PINCUS (Ann)

Mr. PERCIVAL L. REYNOLDS, JR.

Mrs. STANLEY J. SARNOFF (“Lolo”)

Mrs. SALLY ENGELHARD PINGREE

Mr. and Mrs. R. ROLAND REYNOLDS (Diana)

Mr. BILL PLANTE and Ms. ROBIN SMITH

Mr. and Mrs. WAYNE REYNOLDS (Catherine)

H.E. the Ambassador of Mexico and Mrs. ARTURO SARUKHAN (Veronica Valencia)

Mr. and Mrs. ANTHONY PODESTA (Heather)

Mrs. WALTER T. RIDDER (Marie)

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN D. PODESTA (Mary) Mr. and Mrs. JOHN J. POHANKA (Lynn)

The Honorable and Mrs. THOMAS J. RIDGE (Michele)

Mr. and Mrs. CURTIS POLK (Amanda)

Mr. and Mrs. C. JACKSON RITCHIE, JR. (Jane)

Mr. and Mrs. ARLIE SCHARDT

Mr. KENNETH M. POLLACK and Ms. ANDREA KOPPEL

The Honorable and Mrs. CHARLES S. (“CHUCK”) ROBB (Lynda)

Mr. NICHOLAS B. SCHEETZ

Mrs. ABE POLLIN (Irene)

Mr. JOSEPH E. ROBERT, JR.

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The Chief Justice of the United States and Mrs. JOHN G. ROBERTS (Jane)

Mr. and Mrs. NASH WHITNEY SCHOTT (Aniko Gaal)

Mr. and Mrs. NORMAN S. PORTENOY (Winifred) The Honorable and Mrs. COLIN L. POWELL (Alma) Mr. and Mrs. EARL A. POWELL, III (Nancy) Lady PREVIN (Heather) Miss JUDY LYNN PRINCE Dr. and Mrs. JEROLD J. PRINCIPATO (Marjorie) Mr. and Mrs. FREDERICK H. PRINCE (Diana) Mrs. ROBERT E. PUMPHREY, JR. (Lisa) Mr. JOHN PYLES and Ms. BARBARA HARRISON Mrs. EBEN W. PYNE (Nancy)

Mr. and Mrs. J. EUGENE QUINN (Irene/“Margy”) Mr. THOMAS H. QUINN

Justice and Mrs. ANTONIN SCALIA (Maureen)

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The Honorable CAROL L. SCHWARTZ Mr. ROBERT C. SCHWARTZ

Mr. and Mrs. STEPHEN ROBERTS (“Cokie”)

Ms. GAIL SCOTT

Senator and Mrs. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, IV (Sharon)

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The Honorable and Mrs. IVAN SELIN (Nina)

Mr. and Mrs. TIMOTHY C. ROONEY (Dana Demange)

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Mr. and Mrs. KERMIT ROOSEVELT (Priscilla)

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Mr. and Mrs. WHAYNE S. QUIN (Ursula)

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Ms. ROXANNE ROBERTS

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT M. ROSENTHAL (Marion)

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Mr. VICTOR SHARGAI H.E. the Ambassador of the United Kingdom Sir NIGEL SHEINWALD and Lady Sheinwald (Julia)

Mr. and Mrs. RANDOLPH D. ROUSE (Michelle)

Rear Admiral (U.S.N., Ret.) and Mrs. TAZEWELL T. SHEPARD, JR. (Jan)

Mr. and Mrs. DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN (Alice)

Mrs. DONNA HAMILTON SHOR

Mrs. OTTO J. RUESCH (Jeanne)

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The Honorable and Mrs. DONALD H. RUMSFELD (Joyce)

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Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS D. RUTHERFOORD, JR. (Jean)

Mr. DAVID E. RUST

Mr. and Mrs. TIMOTHY SHRIVER (Linda) Mr. and Mrs. SIMON SIDAMONERISTOFF (Nancy) Mr. JONATHAN SILVER and Ms. MELISSA MOSS

The Honorable MARY (“MOLLY”) RAISER

The Honorable and Mrs. LEONARD L. SILVERSTEIN (Elaine)

Mr. and Mrs. W. RUSSELL RAMSAY (Norma)

Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT H. SMALL (Shirley)

Mr. FRANK B. RANDOLPH The Honorable and Mrs. DONALD RAPPAPORT (Susan)

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Mrs. ANWAR SADAT (Jihan)

Mr. and Mrs. JUSTIN B. SMITH (Jean O’Brien)

Mrs. ELIZABETH B. (“BETSEY”) REA

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN SAFER (Joy)

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT BLAND SMITH, JR. (Niente)

Mr. and Mrs. SAMUEL S. REED (Juliet)

Miss PATRICIA BENNETT SAGON

Mrs. ROBERT H. SMITH (Clarice)

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Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE C. STEVENS, JR. (Elizabeth/”Liz”) Mrs. THEODORE F. STEVENS (Catherine)

The Honorable and Mrs. JAMES WADSWORTH SYMINGTON (Sylvia)

Mr. and Mrs. DANIEL SNYDER (Tanya)

Mrs. POTTER STEWART (Andy)

Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL R. SONNENREICH (Linda)

Mr. and Mrs. WYATT A. STEWART, III (Renée)

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The Honorable ANN STOCK and Mr. STUART C. STOCK

The Honorable WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, IV

Mr. and Mrs. PATRICK STEEL (Lee Satterfield)

Mrs. WALTER J. STOESSEL, JR. (Mary Ann)

Mr. T. GARRICK STEELE

Mrs. AUCHINCLOSS STRAIGHT (Nina)

The Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government and Mrs. QUBAD TALABANY (Sherri Kraham)

Mr. and Mrs. JAMES MORGAN STERLING (Lisa)

The Honorable ROBERT S. STRAUSS

The Honorable STROBE TALBOTT

Mrs. ISAAC STERN (Linda)

Mrs. HENRY STRONG (Malan)

Mrs. W. WAVERLY TAYLOR (Edmée)

Mr. and Mrs. EDWARD R. STETTINIUS (Sarah)

Ms. JOANNA STURM

Mrs. DANIEL J. TERRA (Judith)

Mr. and Mrs. JOSEPH STETTINIUS, JR. (Regina)

Mr. A. MICHAEL SULLIVAN, JR.

Mr. and Mrs. GUY T. STEUART, II (Margaret)

Mrs. MARY H. DAVIDSON SWIFT

H.E. the Ambassador of Italy GIULIOMARIA TERZI DI SANT’AGATA and Ms. ANTONELLA CINQUE

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN T. TAFT (Christine)

Mr. and Mrs. EVAN THOMAS (Oscie) Mr. and Mrs. PHILIP THOMAS (Patti) Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM R. TIEFEL (Norma Kline) Mr. and Mrs. MAURICE B. TOBIN (Joan) Mr. and Mrs. VLADIMIR S. TOLSTOY (Suzanne) Mr. and Mrs. SAMI TOTAH (Annie) The Honorable KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND and Mr. DAVID L. TOWNSEND

David Mercer Favorite book you read this year?

Guy Finley’s “The Secret of Letting Go,” an important reminder that our humanity and matters of the heart always trump financial, political or business self interest.

Signature entertaining hallmarks?

Good people. Without them there is no need for the food, flowers, music, etc.

Favorite hotel in the world?

Locally, The Four Seasons; globally there’s nothing like La Mamounia in Marrakesh, Morocco Favorite local restaurant and what do most like to order there?

Café Milano. I start with carpaccio and follow with the branzino sea bass.

What’s on your ipod playlist/stereo?

Yael Naim, Cafe del Mar, Lenny Kravitz, Santana, The Isley Brothers, James Taylor, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald

Mr. and Mrs. STEPHEN J. TRACHTENBERG (Francine)

WASHBURN (Judith) Mrs. WALTER E. WASHINGTON (Mary)

Mr. GEOFFREY O. TRACY and Ms. NORAH O’DONNELL

Mr. J. SEPTIME WEBRE

Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL TRAEGER (Mariella) Mr. and Mrs. C. BOWDOIN TRAIN (Georgina)

The Honorable and Mrs. WILLIAM H. WEBSTER (Lynda)

Mrs. MARJORIE LEGARÉ HARDY TRAIN

The Honorable EDWARD L. WEIDENFELD and The Honorable SHEILA RABB WEIDENFELD

The Honorable and Mrs. RUSSELL E. TRAIN (Aileen)

Mrs. ERIC W. WEINMANN (Mary)

The Honorable JOSEPH DAVIES TYDINGS

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Ms. KATHARINE WEYMOUTH

Marnell Bruce

Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE Y. WHEELER, III (Frances) Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS WHEELER (Carol) Mr. and Mrs. HENRY C. WHEELWRIGHT (Celeste) Mrs. CHARLES SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (Janet)

Mrs. JACK J. VALENTI (Mary Margaret) Mr. JAMES F. VALENTINE and Ms. KATHY KEMPER

Senator and Mrs. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (Sandra) Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE WILL (Mari)

Mrs. CHARLOTTE CRAWFORD VAN METRE

Mr. and Mrs. PAUL WILLIAMS (Catherine)

Mr. CHRISTOPHER T. VAN ROIJEN

Mr. and Mrs. WESLEY S. WILLIAMS, JR. (Karen)

Mr. and Mrs. PETER P. VAN ROIJEN (Beatrice)

Mr. and Mrs. CURTIN WINSOR, III (Deborah)

The Honorable PHILLIP L. VERVEER and The Honorable MELANNE VERVEER

Mr. ELLIS WISNER

Dr. and Mrs. GIORGIO G. VIA (Anna Maria)

Mr. and Mrs. GRAHAM WISNER (Rania)

The Honorable RICHARD N. VIETS

The Honorable and Mrs. JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN (Elaine)

Mr. HENRY F. VON EICHEL and Countess MONIKA APPONYI

Mr. RICHARD WOLFFE and Ms. PAULA CUELLO

Mr. and Mrs. RODERICK K. VON LIPSEY (Alexia) Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE VRADENBURG (Trish)

The Honorable PAUL WOLFOWITZ The Honorable NEAL S. WOLIN and Ms. NICOLE ELKON Mr. ROBERT (“BOB”) WOODWARD and Ms. ELSA WALSH

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Mr. and Mrs. MALLORY WALKER (Diana)

Mrs. MICHAEL WOYEVODSKY (Xenia)

Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM M. (“WILLY”) WALKER (Sheila)

His Eminence Cardinal DONALD W. WUERL

Mr. and Mrs. CHRISTOPHER WALLACE (Lorraine) Mr. REDMOND WALSH and Ms. TIA CUDAHY

Mr. and Mrs. STEVEN WYATT (Cate Magennis)

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Mr. and Mrs. ANGUS YATES (Elizabeth/“Sissy”)

Mrs. WILLIAM W. WARNER (Kathleen)

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Mr. and Mrs. JEFFREY D. ZIENTS (Mary)

Miss VIRGINIA WARNER

The Honorable and Mrs. C. LANGHORNE

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The Honorable and Mrs. JOHN W. WARNER (Jeanne) Senator and Mrs. MARK R. WARNER (Lisa Collis)

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Robert H. Smith The Honorable Ted Stevens

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Lambertson Truex for Tiffany & Co. Accessories duo Richard Lambertson and John Truex talk about their new leather collection for Tiffany & Co.

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Richard Lambertson and John Truex (Photo by Kyle Samperton)

Washington Life: Tell us about the leather collection you designed for Tiffany & Co. John Truex: It’s a full collection and by that I mean huge. We spent months planning and sketching a full assortment of accessories for men and women – bags for day, evening and small leather goods – and played with a lot of color and texture.

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Richard Lambertson: Tiffany & Co. itself. It is an iconic brand, a beautiful house of luxury and it has been around since 1837. Design has always been important to Tiffany and they have always hired artists and designers to do various things.

We went through the archives to see what people had done, and they had never really done leather goods before, and they hired us for our expertise.

JT: Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” – in the chic black dress with the pearls, hair up and the sunglasses – inspired a full collection, just that single image of her looking into the window at Tiffany and that idea of fantasy.

WL: What are your favorite pieces?

RL: It changes on a daily basis.

We’re attached to pretty much everything. I love some of the timeless, simplistic totes inspired just by the Tiffany’s shopping bag.

The more you carry it, the softer it gets, and it will be a fantastic piece as it grows old. Yet, I love the Hadley, which is a fabulous one-shoulder bag with this little chain that drapes. It’s chic and very modern.

JT: I like the little clutch.

RL: We spent days getting the right proportions [for the clutch] and how the frame drops so that it’s hidden, yet the cap of it in Tiffany blue peaks over the edge.

WL: It sounds as if making timeless pieces is very important for you.

JT: We want a woman to purchase a bag, carry it, love it, enjoy it, put it away, move on to some other Tiffany bag, but then to come back to and rediscover it. That to me is flawless design. You go back to it and there is no expiration date.

RL: Bags that were designed for Tiffany don’t have an expiration date. Several of the ladies who came to our Tiffany’s event had our vintage bags and were very proud to say, “I still wear this, it’s one of my favorites.”

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Women’s Rights and Child Care

Melanne Verveer honored for her commitment to women’s issues, Egypt hosts Children’s Hospital benefactors and a top amateur chef cooks for Brain Tumor Foundation donors

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HE SCORE WAS FOUR-LOVE :

It was an on stage love-fest at the Washington Hilton when four committed activists spoke at the National Women’s Law Center dinner honoring Melanne Verveer.

Verveer was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s White House Chief of Staff and now works for her as the state department’s presidentially appointed global ambassador-at-large on women’s issues.

Producer, author, all-around wit and founder of “People for the American Way” Norman Lear said he was so fond of Verveer, and so impressed by her work, that he dropped everything and flew across the continent to add his praise.

Also in congratulations mode was actress Geena Davis of “Thelma and Louise” fame, who not only has many film awards to her credit but is a vocal champion of women’s issues. Davis testified in the Senate the following morning for the long-delayed Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) women’s rights bill.

The usually calm and collected Verveer’s jaw dropped when her boss made a top-secret surprise appearance “It’s the first time in 20 years,” Clinton told the crowd, “that I’ve been able to put anything over on Melanne.”

The Secretary of State went on to say that she had seen Verveer’s “tireless efforts on behalf of women” for years. “We’ve sweltered under tents in India in a program to aid them, traveled to a remote village in Afghanistan built by women who had been squatters, and covered a women’s event in China. Melanne never gives up. She is always ready to write one more letter, make one more phone call for the cause.”

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the CEDAW bill faces, with a filibuster-proof total of 67 senatorial votes needed. Three U.S. presidents have declared they are for this international bill outlawing discrimination against women. (Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Conner recently added her support as well.)

The actress noted that refusal to ratify the agreement because of opposition by antiabortion groups has stymied efforts to pass the legislation, resulting in the U.S. joining countries such as Somalia and Iran, which are known for their violence against women.

GOLDEN DONORS: There was a milliondollar crowd for whom Egyptian Ambassador Sameh Shoukry and his wife, Aziza opened their embassy to honor major donors of the Children’s Hospital Foundation of the Children’s National

Medical Center.

A sumptuous dinner of Middle Easter n fare was served to members of the Children’s Circle of Care. All the donors had given at least $10,000.

Some had given much more – as much as one million dollars.

Dr. Hemant Sharma , the h o s p i t a l ’s associate chief of allergies and immunology, reported on the ever-increasing number of younger allergy victims, and the speeded efforts being made to find the causes of these illnesses that can be life-threatening to children.

BACK TO HIS CASSEROLES: Another generous soul, one who is hands-on with his g iving, was back in Washington to host his legendary dinner for the Brain Tumor Foundation.

Barry Glassman , a financial manager when he is not wielding a sauce spoon, is a talented amateur chef who did his culinary thing once again at Teatro Goldoni.

Enthusiastic diners travel many miles to sample his cuisine.

Surprise out-the-door gift: boxes of tulip bulbs ready for planting.They will emerge next spring to remind us of the need to help those who suffer from this affliction.

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MENTOR FOUNDATION DINNER The Four Seasons PHOTOS BY DENNIS KAN

Björn and Charlotte Söderström

REGAL PRESENCE: Anyone nervous about meeting Sweden’s Queen Silvia was put at ease by the royal consort’s effortless charm as well as her devotion to her favorite cause, international drug abuse prevention. ICEBREAKER: Guests waiting patiently in the receiving line were impressed to discover that her knowledge of the subject fully equals her ability to discuss it in six languages.

GLAMOROUS NIGHT: Dinner, an awards ceremony and a performance by Up With People topped off the night chaired by James Wolfensohn and Dr. Susan Blumenthal under the special patronage of Saudi Arabian Prince Turki bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud.

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Traditions Old and New Hunt Country breakfasts, martini madness, wedding engagements and the return of a beloved country store

BY Vicky moon

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OUNTIFUL BREAKFASTS:

As the leaves transition from brilliant red to vivid orange to faint yellow, it’s all about tradition in Middleburg. Among the most sacred of these are the elegant postfox hunting gatherings known as “Hunt Breakfasts.”

The tricky part is that the breakfast takes place in the afternoon. Hosted by owners of the estates where the hunt meets earlier in the morning, it’s an American version of the event as it is done in Great Britain (where fox hunting originated), with riders gathering in pubs for a pint of lager and a ploughman’s platter of cheese, apples, celery and mixed pickles.

In each case, as the afternoon extends to dusk and more lager or wine is consumed, riders recall in detail each leap and gallop – which get higher and faster as the tall tales are recounted.

Lisa and Zohar Ben-Dov are noted for their hospitality and generosity as they meet and greet guests at Kinross Farm. A small glass of sherry is offered before the hounds depart, and later in the afternoon, friends return for warm conversation and marvelous offerings of food and drink.

Shannon Davis, a tall and stylish mother of three beautiful daughters, recently discovered the sport of fox hunting and, despite a minor spill off a horse, her enthusiasm continues. She and her husband, Jim Davis, welcomed 100-plus equestrians at Hillmont farm. The Susan Gagecatered fare included a Virginia “twist” on the traditional English offerings with authentic Edwards ham biscuits.

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are encouraged to bring donations of food and toys for residents of Windy Hill, a local foundation that provides affordable housing in Middleburg.

ENGAGEMENTS:

T h a n k s g iv i n g weekend is also a traditional time to celebrate engagements. After all, Prince William and Kate Middleton aren’t the only happy couple on the planet. Out in Hunt Country, folks continue to congratulate Douglas Wise and John Stuart’s pending nuptials. (She is a joint master of Old Dominion Hounds and he is a Thoroughbred bloodstock agent – what more could one ask for?) Linda Above: Malcolm Matheson III, a and Bucky Reynolds recently hosted joint master of Orange County Hunt Left: Only in Middleburg would you cocktails in the couple’s honor at their spot a silver Mercedes wagon pulled home. Margaret and John Wise also up in front of this country store in celebrated the pending union along with Atoka. (Photos by Vicky Moon) Albert Hinckley at his home known as When Thanksgiving morning dawns, riders “Hawthorne.” are up, out of the house and off for what is Also on Thanksgiving weekend, the ever known as family day in the hunt field. It’s the energetic and fashionable Valerie Dove and time of year when children return home from Guy Dove toasted Erin Dougherty and John prep schools and colleges to join their parents O’Connor at their home, “Buttonwood Hill.” for a day of sport before sitting down to a traditional turkey dinner.

OLD-FASHIONED SERVICE: And for those who didn’t make it to the Hunt Breakfasts, “MM6”: Another jumpstart to the holidays – this we have some very good news. The Atoka one courtesy of Holly and Stuart Weinstein- Market (formerly known as the Atoka Store Bacal – would be Martini Madness for the – a rural answer to the urban convenience sixth straight year. (Six years makes a tradition store) has re-opened. This is the place where right?) Their gathering at Mallory Chase Farm estate owners and farm workers stand in line includes every imaginable variation of martini, for an egg sandwich and a big cup of steaming from peppermint to chocolate. With musical coffee on their way to the training track to accompaniment by Michele Dupwe and the watch the Thoroughbreds gallop at the crack Fabulous Exaggerations, fanciful ’50s attire of dawn. No lattes here; the nearest Starbucks channeling Bogie, the Rat Pack and Hepburn (according to this writer’s odometer) is 12 is urged. And in the spirit of the season, guests miles away.

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OFF TO THE RACES: Author Bill Nack was the honored guest at WL’s party celebrating the re-release of his acclaimed book, “Secretariat,” upon which the recent Walt Disney Pictures film is based. The 250 guests enjoyed a sumptuous buffet in the ultra-luxe 25th floor penthouse suite of Turnberry Tower where they took in spectacular vistas and lined up for signed copies of the book (which quickly sold out). REMINISCING: Nack regaled fans with tales of his 10 years on the “Secretariat beat” at Sports Illustrated, describing the “greatest racehorse who ever lived” as “1,100 pounds of caged heat.” SPOTTED: ESPN’s Leonard Shapiro, CBS News’ Chip Reid and wife Nina Black, ABC7’s Scott Thuman and lobbyist Jack Quinn.

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CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY 20TH ANNIVERSARY

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COURAGEOUS QUEST: Supporters celebrated the Center for Public Integrity for doggedly pursuing presidents, Congress and the private sector with ground-breaking reports that not only help ensure accountability but are models of judiciously fair and accurate reporting. PAYING TRIBUTE: CPI founder Chuck (“the face of an angel but the heart of an assassin”) Lewis was lauded for launching hundreds of investigations but warned that “more substantive and proactive” work was needed now that “levels of transparency have receded.” SUMMING UP: “We need fewer autopsies of what went wrong after it happened,” CPI’s new investigative partner Arianna Huffington said in a video tribute, “and more biopsies of what’s going on now.”

CPI Founder Chuck Lewis and Len Downie

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POLITICS AND PASSION: DC Vote’s 2010 Champions of Democracy Awards Dinner was truly an event of the people, by the people, for the people; namely for its honorees, Smith Bagley (posthumously), Kathy Schmidt and Andy Shallal, who were all recognized for their passionate support of democracy. Rep. Donna Edwards was a special guest at the event, which was emceed by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. REAL CHAMPS: Ken Grossinger, Ruben Howard, Maureen Knight and Lars Peterson.

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NOT SO STUFFY WASHINGTON: The cast of “Hair” let down their locks – “straight, curly, … bangled, spangled, tangled and spaghettied” –after a tumultuous opening night performance that ended with much of the audience swaying on stage to the play’s immortal anthem “Let the Sunshine In.” TRIBAL LOVE ROCKS ON: The young actors whooped it up with friends and family until the wee hours under the indulgent eye of the legendary musical’s beaming co-writer/lyricist James Rado (who was dressed in ’60s vintage hippie attire for the occasion). “When “Hair” is done well, I am always happy for the audience,” Heidi Griffiths and he said. “It has a spiritual message and people Diane Paulus always need to be healed.”

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Wings of Hope Trump National Golf Course Photos BY Tony Powell

HEALING HANDS: When Chad MacDonald lost his wife Brenda five years ago to melanoma, he and his three sons rallied the support of their Great Falls community to begin trying to make a difference in Brenda’s memory. DRAMATIC GROWTH: What started in a barnyard, literally, with a Halloween costume party, finger food and kegs, soon evolved into the Brenda MacDonald Melanoma Research Foundation and the Annual Wings of Hope Gala, now in its second year. This year’s event was even bigger than the first, with 400 guests and 50 corporate sponsors who chipped in $200,000 to help make a difference.

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Parties, Parties, Parties Celebrating the design, literature and local business

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Homeless Children’s Playtime Project The Halloween-themed party was held at the Josephine Butler Parks house./ ERIC HIMMELMAN with KRISTAN and ERIC LODAL/ CHRISTINE PETERSON and JON RYPKA (Photos by Kyle Samperton)

2010 Hall of Fame Design House ED COLLINS, JENNIFER SARGENT and FRANK RANDOLPH at the Washington Design Center (Photos by Kyle Samperton)

Eric Haseltine BOOK PARTY AT THE HOME OF Arturo and Hilda Brillembourg

Sylene’s 35th Anniversary Celebration KATE KINNERY, MARYAM KALENTARI, CYLA WEINER, HELEN KESTLER, ELSA DUMIRE and SUSAN SILVERMAN celebrating the Chevy Chase, Md., lingerie store’s longevity. (Photo by Tony Powell)

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ALEXANDER and DAUPHINE TITOMOROV celebrating the

publication of “Long Fuse, Big Bang.” /

FLORENCE Haseltine and author ERIC HASELTINE with WILLIAM HASELTINE / Hostsses HILDA BRILLEMBOURG and JACQUELINE LELAND (Photos by Alfredo Flores)

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at the media event held in Sidney Harman Hall / VIVEK KUNDRA and ARIANNA HUFFINGTON. (Photos by Tony Powell)

DAVID DESANTIS, KATHERINE KRANENBURG and GREG BUSCH attend opening night at the Sotheby’s office in Chevy Chase, Md./ ASHLEY WHITE, PIPER GIOIA, MICHAEL RANKIN and AYESHA BAIGMOHAMED./ SAM and TANYA MESSECA. (Photos by Kyle Samperton)

Atlantic Bridge Dinner HonorS James Mattais ED GIBSON, PAT HARRISON and BOB SEIGEL enjoy the festivities at the Atlantic Bridge Foundation’s dinner./ TOM KANE and BILL FLYNN with MARIA and TOM OWENS. (Photos by Kyle Samperton)

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Rockefeller Investment MIKE MARSH, PAUL VIETH and ANDY KOVAL at the Rockefeller Investment Reception (Photo by Kyle Samperton)

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From the entryway, the eye catches a glimpse of the seating area picture-framed by an architectural portal.

To the right, the kitchen hides behind what appears to be a heavy wall.

ROOMS without borders

When Aziz and Badria Azimi purchased a traditional-style home in Lake Barcroft, Virginia, they asked Andreas Charalambous of FORMA Design to provide a modern touch to accommodate large family and social gatherings w r i t t e n B Y E r n e s t o M . S a n t a l l a AIA , LEE D A P W i t h P h o t o g r a p h y by g e o f f r e y h o d g d o n

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Within the “no barriers” floor plan, architect Andreas Charalambous used color, dropped ceilings and strategically placed columns to give scale and subtle definition to the media room. Furniture selections include B&B Italia and Knoll Studio.

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ssociation and repetition play a big role in what ultimately becomes tradition.

“Hannukah”typically suggests a menorah, while “Christmas” may bring to mind a decorated tree. Meanwhile, the idea of a “holiday party” evokes images of family and friends embracing the warmth of a roaring fireplace festooned in garlands and bows with a backdrop of snow falling lightly through a window throughout a dark, cold night.These images, firmly ingrained

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in our mental databank, fill us with nostalgia and longing for simpler times often depicted in holiday greeting cards. The way we live and entertain during the holidays, however, is often quite different.

Aziz and Badria Azimi sought to continue their tradition of large family holiday gatherings when they purchased a large, traditional-inspired home in Virginia. They found out very soon, however, that the house did not work well for this purpose. They approached architect Andreas Charalambous

of FORMA Design to do a modern makeover. “They had lots of small, underused rooms that were essentially duplicate living rooms,” Charalambous recalls when speaking about his first impressions of the Lake Barcroft house.

Once his clients agreed that the desired results could be achieved by redefining the interior as rooms without barriers rather than adding more space (i.e., a “bump-out”), the architect’s task was clear.

Charalambous achieved his goals through strategic planning to minimize construction.

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Cabinets, ovens and warming drawers are built into what appears to be a heavy wall from the entryway. The white stone island countertop becomes a floating tabletop for informal seating in the kitchen. The stools are by Kartell.

The open stair, seen from behind, allows light to spill downstairs. Classic Knoll Studio furniture is seen in the foreground.

A new, open staircase and balcony railings anchor the center of the structure and face wide-open views of both the open floor plan and the outdoors. There is now a strong visual and physical connection between the first and lower level of the house where the family often gathers. In contrast to the light airy staircase, a thick wall – the kind often found in older buildings – has been painted a deep terracotta color, creating the illusion that the staircase is effortlessly floating up and down. But the wall is not wasted space – it

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also ingeniously conceals and defines part of the kitchen. “We used color and architectural elements to give subtle definition to areas, creating color portals,” Charalambous explains.

“Even the de-natured alcohol fireplace is used for this purpose.”

All of the space is now open, functional and useful. Various areas are used for different activities, giving each section of the house its unique purpose: dining, media, reading, etc., and of course, enabling festive holiday entertaining when it is needed.

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Near Record Breakers Adrienne Arsht sells the third most-expensive house in Washington this year, Dr. Richard Pollock parts with the third highest Kalorama sale ever and a French chateau in McLean tops $10 million.

By Stac e y G r a z i e r P fa r r

The District Entrepreneur and philanthropist Adrienne Arsht sold 3220 NEBRaska avenue nw in Spring Valley to David Gardner, the founder of The Motley Fool, and Margaret Gardner for $7,525,000.The transaction is the third highest sale in the District this year. (Arsht’s purchase of a Massachusetts Avenue Heights Beaux Arts mansion at 2850 WOODLAND DRIVE NW for $8.2 million in May ranks as the second highest.) The listing agent for the property was Washington Fine Properties’ Chuck Holzwarth (who also assisted Arsht in the purchase of her Woodland Drive house) while the Alex & Paul Group of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty (Alex Venditti, Paul Pike, Shawn Beck and Yale Scott) represented the Gardners. The six-bedroom Georgian-style home was built in 1999 on an almost-half acre lot that was once owned by the British Embassy. The property boasts a pool, two reflecting ponds, a two-story library and a tiered 12-seat theater.

Dr. Richard M. Pollock sold 2414 TRACY PLACE NW to Nancy E. Schaffer for $6,375,000 – the third highest transaction ever negotiated in Kalorama (and the highest sale there for a property not located on Kalorama Road). Pollock is an endodontist in Falls Church. Schaffer, who is relocating from Chicago, is the co-founder of Outlines newspaper, co-owner of the Windy City Media Group and a well-known human rights activist. Previous owners of the six-bedroom 1924 Colonial include the late 13-term New York Democratic congressman James Scheuer and his wife Emily. The completely renovated house includes excceptionally large living and dining rooms, a lap pool and private terraced garden. Listing agents were William F.X. Moody and Robert Hryniewicki of Washington Fine Properties; the selling agent was John Guggenmos of McWilliams/Ballard.

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Dr. Richard Pollock sold 2414 Tracy Place NW for $6,375,000 to Chicago publisher Nancy E. Schaffer. The completely renovated house includes exceptionally large living and dining rooms, a lap pool and private garden.

The residence of Sen. Lamar Alexander and his wife Honey at 1516 29TH STREET NW sold through their Nashville-based trustee, Mark C. Carver, for $2,150,000. Alexander is Tennessee’s senior senator and chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. He previously served as governor of Tennessee and as secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush. The charming three-bedroom Federal-style house in the East Village was built in the mid- to late-1800s. The house was listed by Washington Fine Properties’ Eileen McGrath and sold by Mark McFadden, also of Washington Fine Properties. Both declined comment.

William Walton sold 84 KALORAMA CIRCLE NW for $3,475,000. Walton is the former chairman of Allied Capital, a Districtbased private equity firm acquired by Ares Capital. The five-bedroom 1925 Europeanstyle house overlooks Rock Creek Park and features two master suites, a gourmet kitchen and charming garden with a cocktail pool.

Washington Fine Properties’ Anne Hatfield Weir and Heidi Hatfield were the listing agents.

MARYLAND Judith Hammerschmidt and Hank Hankla sold 6407 HIGHLAND DRIVE in

Bethesda’s Kenwood enclave for $2,232,000.

Hammerschmidt is a lawyer-turnedrestaurateur and the proprietor of Rock Creek in Bethesda, which specializes in local and sustainable entrées. Hankla is a math specialist at the Beauvoir School. The five-bedroom Tudor was built in 1942. The residence aptly boasts a top-of-the-line chef ’s kitchen with butler’s pantry, two Sub-Zero refrigerators, wine storage and an extra freezer. Though she declined comment on the transaction, Washington Fine Properties’ Joanne Pinover was both the listing and selling agent.

VIRGINIA Michael Masoud Darvishi sold 1322 BALLS HILL ROAD in McLean for $10.2 million to Apeks LLC, making it the highest sale in

McLean this year. Darvishi is the president of Noble Construction Company and an aspiring Iranian singer, who, according to the property’s listing agent, Fouad Talout of Long & Foster, is

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This stunning 2-story penthouse with 2 bedrooms and 2 full baths is located at Wooster and Mercer. The home boasts 21-foot ceilings, a gourmet kitchen with island, floor-to-ceiling windows in all the rooms, and a large, private roof terrace.

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Sited in Chatsworth, and rarely available, this 5-bedroom, 4.5-bath townhouse with spacious rooms is perfect for entertaining and comfortable living. The home is close to great schools, parks, and transportation.

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Georgetown, D.C. $1,385,000

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$1,149,000

Located in American University Park just blocks from Friendship Heights and Metro, this delightful sunny home in a parklike, private landscaped setting offers gorgeous views from every window. The open flow makes the residence ideal for comfortable daily living and easy entertaining. Nathan Carnes 202.966.1400 (O).

Culpepper, Virginia

$2,499,000

Located an hour’s drive from D.C., this 13-acre estate with pool and tennis areas provides a perfect country residence for entertaining. The home has been renovated to today’s standard of luxury, yet retains the beauty of its 1799 Colonial heritage. karenbarker.com.

Karen Barker 703.928.8384/ 202.363.1800 (O).

Washington, D.C.

$1,299,000

Located in sought-after Berkley, this light-filled contemporary is within blocks of restaurants and shops. Four finished levels feature high ceilings, large windows, an office/library loft, a garage, and 2 decks.

Eldad Moraru 202.412.6464/ 301.907.7600 (O).

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This Federal row house in the heart of the East Village is just blocks from restaurants and shopping, and has easy access to downtown. The residence features beautiful bay windows with a balcony on the 2nd floor, a flexible floor plan, and a lovely private rear garden with flagstone patio and water feature. Spring Valley Office 202.362.1300.

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The spectacular entrance hall of 1322 Balls Hill Road in McLean, which recently sold for $10.2 million.

relocating to Los Angeles. Darvishi purchased the undeveloped land in 2002 for $849,000 and built the French Provincial château in 2006.

The original asking price for the six-bedroom property was $17.5 million. The house sits on two acres and includes seven fireplaces, seven balconies and a ballroom accommodating 200 people.

Around the corner, John and Lisa Joyeusaz sold 7301 DULANY DRIVE for $4,335,000 to Dr. Brian Subach and his wife Tiffany. This is also one of the highest-priced sales in McLean in recent history.

Mr. and Mrs. Joyeusaz are founders of the real estate service company, The Buyer Brokerage, while Dr. Subach is a surgeon and director of research at the Virginia Spine Institute.The sixbedroom wooden shingle house was built in 2005. It sits on just over two acres and includes a pool and guest quarters.

Also in McLean, Peter and Brady Arundel sold 1147 CREST LANE for $2,725,000 with the help of Washington Fine Properties’ Susan Koehler and Joe O’Hara. Peter Arundel is president and CEO of Times Community News, a group of local papers reaching over 650,000 readers weekly throughout Northern Virginia.The six-bedroom Colonial in Langley was built in 1947 and sits on 1.5 acres.

PROPERTY LINES Former Blackwater spokesman Steve Capace has listed his McLean home at 886 CHINQUAPIN ROAD for $5,250,000. Capace lived in the seven-bedroom Colonial when he was involved with the private military security firm (now known as Xe Services) but has since moved to New York where he is working as an attorney. As you might expect, the house includes a few standard luxuries (a home theater, elevator, pool and sport court) as well as high-level security features, a 50 KW generator, guard room with executive surveillance system and concrete safe room.

Federal tax attorney and Bingham McCutchen partner Raj Madan and his wife Emily have listed 2411 TRACY PLACE NW for $3,195,000.

The completely restored 1950s fourbedroom Georgian style residence in Kalorama includes mocha oak floors, a chef’s kitchen and tiered brick terrace with gardens and a pool. The property is listed by the Alex & Paul Group of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty.

The home of the late George L. Hesse, a local real estate developer and engineer, is going back on the market this month after undergoing

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a meticulous renovation by renowned Washington designer/ developer Brook Rose. The sevenbedroom Colonial Revival at 2325 TRACY PLACE was built in 1927 and includes a private elevator, wine cellar, garden and terrace.

The house is listed by the Alex & Paul Group of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty.

The former Georgetown residence of American tycoon-turnedpolitician Al Checchi and his wife Kathryn is for sale for $5,495,000.

Checchi, a native-Washingtonian, began his career at the Marriott Corporation and eventually became the co-chairman of Northwest Airlines. In 1998, he unsuccessfully ran for governor of California. La Maison Partners LLC is selling the six-bedroom East Village property at 1692 31ST STREET NW. Nora L. Cameron listed the Georgetown home she shared with her late husband, Juan Cameron, the former Washington editor of both Fortune and Time magazines.

2823 N STREET NW is on the market for $6.6 million. Other occupants of the 1850s Greek Revival have included American government attorney and diplomat

The property features a professionally landscaped roof garden with koi pond and fountain, a mirrored English c o n s e r v a t o r y, library,and 1,300bottle glass enclosed wine cellar. The house is listed by the Alex & Paul Group of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty.

Anthony P. Browne (below) recently listed his Dupont Circle house at 1735 Fraser Court NW

Adrian S. Fisher and journalist John Pierson, whose work at The Wall Street Journal secured his spot on President Richard Nixon’s famous “Enemies List.”

Anthony P. Browne, one of Architectural Digest’s “Top-100 Designers” and Oprah Winfrey’s personal go-tointerior designer (he decorated her homes in both Montecito and Illinois), has listed 1735 FRASER COURT NW for $3,495,000. This extraordinary four-bedroom carriage house in Dupont Circle was constructed in 1892 as part of the historic Fraser Mansion (now home to the Founding Church of Scientology).

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2923 Glebe Road North in the new luxury J L Albrittain Inc. subdivision, Cathedral View, is now the highest-priced residence in Arlington at $5,250,000. The fourbedroom house stole the ranking from a listing in posh Turnberry Tower on N. Nash Street, also in North Arlington. Cathedral View houses overlook the Washington Golf and Country Club and feature panoramic views of the metro skyline and National Cathedral.

The units are currently in the final stages of construction with delivery set for late December or early 2011.

Amenities include a mahogany staircase and doors, hickory floors, a two-level library, elevator, movie theater and wine cellar.

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Nestled in the Blueridge Mountains, just an hour from Washington, this magnificent home sits on 6.3 acres with breathtaking views of the Shenandoah Valley. Constructed of stone and cedar, the house features five bedrooms, six and a half baths, an elegant entertaining spaces and a gourmet eat-in kitchen.

The property also includes antique pine floors, high ceilings, several fireplaces, a library and home office, guest apartment and a four-bay heated garage.Truly the ultimate in craftsmanship and amenities, this unique home offers all the benefits of a country home in a location convenient to the city.

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This whimsical home was originally constructed by famed architect Horace Peasely in 1928 and recently underwent a spectacular renovation by architects Williams & Dynerman. The property features a two-story living room, banquet-sized dining room, and newly renovated kitchen. Other amenities include an awe-inspiring spiral staircase, romantic turret, and an historic front door and tower windows salvaged from the John Hay mansion. The grounds boast a deep, private English garden with a greenhouse and flagstone terraces.

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Michael Kahn, Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre 1. JAVA HOUSE 1645 Q Street NW This coffee

shop in Dupont is where I begin just about every morning. Many of my friends come and go regularly and we have formed our own breakfast club of sorts.Whether it is morning or afternoon, Java House serves as a quiet retreat where I can catch up on my reading, work on a play, relax with a cup of green tea and the newspaper, and get a quick tan when the sun is out.

What would you tell a young actor who is contemplating a career in Washington instead of New York?

Find a cheap apartment, audition for everyone and enjoy all the extraordinary opportunities the cultural life of Washington has to offer! If you are good, you will find work!

and the history of chocolate making.

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What production have you dreamed of doing but have never done?

There are three: “Strange Interlude” by Eugene O’Neill, “The Orestia Trilogy” by Sophocles and “Dinner at Eight” by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Maybe they’ll show up at STC soon.

a lot of smart clothes by great designers that are beautifully constructed and fit my personal style for most occasions. It is one of my favorite places to shop (but put a “sale” sign in a window and I’ll go anywhere).

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the new wave of directors and actors who are changing film.

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Avenue NW When I’m at Sidney Harman Hall,

it is always a treat to walk down 6th Street NW, have lunch at the café, and then see some of my favorite pictures. It brings back memories of my time in Paris so vividly, especially now that chef Michel Richard is supervising the great menu.

restaurant takes comfort food to a whole new level with a great, Southern-influenced menu in a room adorned by fabulous wall What are the qualities you immediately murals.They serve everything from meatloaf recognize in a budding star?

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NW With a variety of fine chocolates and flavors shrimp and never fail to warm my soul, with a South American and African influence, whet my appetite and make me smile.

Biagio is the perfect 8. HANK’S OYSTER BAR 1624 Q Street NW Who are your dramatic place to pick up a gift 6. LANDMARK E STREET Second to Java House, Hank’s is the restaurant heroes of the past? for a friend or a treat CINEMA 555 11th Street NW that I frequent most often. Whether I am Geraldine Page – in everything she for myself. All of the Offering a wide selection grabbing a drink with a friend or catching up ever did; Eleanor Duse, who died products are handmade of foreign and independent over a great seafood dinner, the staff never falters before I was old enough to see her and they often have films not offered in main- in service and warmth to deliver a wonderfully but who changed the nature of acting; terrific events devoted stream theaters, I am able relaxed experience. Oysters and champagne can and Porter Brook whose production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to new chocolatiers to see the best work of make even a bad review go away! changed my life.

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