The Wednesday Party Report
The Savannah College of Art and Design held its Style Etoile Awards at the James Cohan Gallery on Monday night. The evening's honorees included Russell Simmons, Amanda Burden, Cornelia Guest, Robin Givhan, and William Ivey Long (left), and attendees at the event included Cynthia Rowley, Agnes Gund, Michael Fink, Yigal Azrouël, Mario Buatta, Bobby Zarem, music exec Michael Mauldin and his wife Judy, producer Tom Fontana, SCAD president Paula Wallace, Ann Slater, designer Lars Nilsson, and Russell's brother and girlfriend—Danny Simmons and Julie Henderson. [PMc, Wireimage, WWD, NYSD]
• James Gandolfini was the center of attention at the God of Carnage opening on Sunday, which was followed by an after-party at Espace. Gandolfini was joined by his co-stars—Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels, and Hope Davis—and guests like Edie Falco (left), Harvey Weinstein, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Christopher Meloni, John Patrick Shanley, Kenneth Cole and Maria Cuomo, Elaine Stritch, Deborah Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman, Fran Drescher, Alan Alda, America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Amber Tamblyn, John Lithgow, Paula Wagner, Geoffrey Rush, Caroline Rhea, Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer, Jeremy Irons, David Hyde Pierce, Colin Hanks, and Cody Green. [PMc, Wireimage, Fox 411, NYSD]
• Friends In Deed hosted a one-night-only performance of Legends! at Town Hall on Monday night. Attendees included Michael Kors (left), Pete Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney, Myra and Freddie Gershon, Richard Belzer, Christine Ebersole, Liz Smith, Stephen Knoll, Patrick McDonald, Hal Rubenstein, Stephen Sondheim, Sam Bolton, Elizabeth Peabody, and Phyllis Newman. [PMc, GoaG]