The stork has arrived early for Angelina Jolie and she is in L.A. cradling her new blonde-haired, blue-eyed adopted Russian baby, Gleb. Angie was able to cut through reams of red tape earlier than expected to make sure her family could spend Thanksgiving together. Although she can afford a mansion with many rooms, she is having her other adopted son — two-year-old Cambodian Maddox — and baby Gleb share a room so they can bond as brothers early in their lives. Catch me, I’m falling.
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Now that couture-loving Nicole Kidman has been cast in a movie based on the life of Coco Chanel, to be directed by her pal Baz Luhrmann, the Aussie has a few things to say about it all. “I think I’m too tall, but hey, why not? Chanel No.5 is the first perfume I used and I’ve been faithful to it since I was 14.” Will the movie be a drama or a musical based on the 1969 Broadway production “Coco?” Go for the drama. That Broadway “Coco” was a real bomb even though (or maybe especially since) it starred one of Nicole’s heroes, Katharine Hepburn.
Demi Moore, looking young and hip in jeans, black coat and a matching black hat, celebrated her 42nd birthday in London with her daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah earlier this week. The four girls went to the theater to see “We Will Rock You,” where Demi got a birthday hug from Priscilla Presley, who was wearing a large diamond clasped belt over her all-black outfit. No word as to where Demi’s beau Ashton Kutcher was, but Demi allowed that she might stick around England even after she wraps the new movie she is making there now called “Half Light.” Her pal, Madonna, with whom she shares an ever-more-serious interest in kabbalah, is said to be offering to help Demi plan her wedding in England. I can wait if you can.
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Scarlett Johansson, who moved to Hollywood from New York to further her acting career — what else — says L.A.’s a hard place to be because “there’s too much emphasis on the people one can meet to better one’s self and I’m not used to that. In L.A. nobody wants to talk to each other and everyone’s giving each other catty looks.” It didn’t take Scarlett very long to figure that one out. She didn’t even have to think about that tomorrow.
Arthur Carter, financier, publisher and — never forget — renowned sculptor, and his wife Linda, of the lovely legs, are the chairmen of New York University’s Child Studies Center dinner at Cipriani on Dec. 6. The center has become an essential force in helping the children of the city, so, on that evening, it is honoring Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “whose groundbreaking initiatives for the city’s school systems have already set an educational standard that will be a blueprint for years to come.” That’s our Mike. So how about reserving a table?
Those art world icons, the distinguished lecturer Rosamond Bernier and her equally distinguished husband, the art historian and author of “Knowledgeable Books,” John Russell, were honored at the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust’s gala dinner at the Rainbow Room with none other than Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester looking on. Sir David Manning, the British ambassador to the United States, “delivered remarks” which, in other words, means he gave a laudatory speech. Actually, if AARAT looked uphill and down dale in the art firmament, they could find no more deserving honorees than Bernier and Russell. You should know that for the past 20 years this institution has raised over $33 million for the privately funded Royal Academy.
Guess who’s the new chairman of New York’s Queen Sofia Spanish Institute? Break out the guitars, click your castanets and stamp your heels because it’s Oscar de la Renta, Señor Simpatico himself, who will take over from Dr. Fernando Aleu, who has been chairman of the institute with amazing success for almost 40 years.
The glorious tidings were relayed to one and all at the institute’s Annual Gold Medal Gala in the Plaza ballroom by Her Royal Highness, the Infanta Dona Cristina, the daughter of the King and Queen of Spain — attractive and tall, she has inherited the tremendous charm of her mother and father — and her husband, His Excellency Inaki Urdangarin, whose other titles are the Duke and Duchess of Palma de Mallorca.
The Infanta hung this year’s gold medals on the noted Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and the renowned American architect Richard Meier, who loves Spain as much as Spain loves him, not least for his Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. They were both honored for their promotion of Spanish culture and the influence it has had and continues to have in the Americas.
Among those celebrating were such as the famous heart doctor Valentin Fuster; Inmaculada de Habsburgo, the president and chief executive officer of the institute; John Brademas; Evelyn Lauder; Audrey and Enriquillo del Rosario; Carmen de Pinies; Reinaldo Herrera; the Spanish Ambassador to the United States and Mrs. Carlos Westendorp y mas y mas y mas.
Party loving Gillian Hearst-Shaw, who is spending every day rehearsing the leading role in a musical comedy called “Happy Ending,” Amanda Hearst, Elisabeth Kieslestein-Cord, Tinsley Mortimer, Celerie Kemble and Zani Gugelmann are among those who will sample the fare of such celebrity chefs as Patricia Quintana, Franco Maddalozzo and Michelle Bernstein at Splashlight Studios Nov. 16th to launch Mexico’s newest resort Acqua in Cancun.
Jane Dudley, the number-one queen of Nashville Society — she founded the Swan Ball, Nashville’s biggest social event — will marry Robert Dwayne Johnson of Nashville today in the chapel of Nashville’s Christ Church. Jane is the widow of Gilford Dudley and together they were very much a part of international society until his death several years ago. Jane will wear a short white wool dress by Alfred Fiandaca at the ceremony and then they will honeymoon in New Orleans. Congratulations and cheers.