Word: galas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Allow me to confide that at the Kahlua Boston Music Awards, a 12-year-old gala ceremony celebrating Boston's best musicians, which were held a week ago yesterday at the Orpheum Theater, these feelings were not only realized but magnified. With first-hand experience in place of television's distance, the situation only got better: celebrities were within reach, I was the devotee, the anticipation and anxiety were tangible. The impersonality of watching from a couch melted away in the midst of the bustle and excitement. I felt empowered with a control over what I saw and heard...
...with more than 100 A-list names. Despite Leno's spending 12-hour days on the phone, performers and guests were dropping out days before the March 29 event ("You mean Sally Field's not coming? Well, then count me out"). Then, at breakfast on the Thursday before the gala, Jay told Mavis, "Guess who's going to be on the show tonight? You are." Her first ("and last," she adds) appearance gave the event the final push it needed. Lionel Richie opened. Lily Tomlin joked. Marlo Thomas introduced. Sidney Poitier spoke. All the Judds came. Jay's stand...
...things about Microsoft: it is an $11 billion enterprise and, thanks to the antitrust suit brought against it by the Clinton Justice Department, it is willing to invest some of that money in the G.O.P. So when Microsoft was listed as a "table sponsor" for last week's gala dinner of the National Republican Congressional Committee, indicating a $25,000 donation, nobody was startled. The surprise may come as further Microsoft contributions are tallied in coming months. Sources tell TIME that the committee's top officials have asked the software giant for $1 million--which, if delivered, would place...
Scope out the celeb fashion winners and uglies at the live simulcast of the 71st Academy Awards, hosted by KISS 108's Matty in the Morning and sponsored by the Friends of the Massachussetts Film Office. The Oscars at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel's Eighth Annual Academy Awards Gala Benefit lets you schmooze with members of the Boston glitterati. Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. $150. Call 973-8804 for invitations...
...young gentlemen in dinner jackets stroll to their club for a brief bourbon. Tonight, the glittering ballroom of the cotillion is theirs for the taking. Silk gowns sway and champagne flows. The band thrills and the playboys survey the scene. The party swells. In the early morning hours, the gala subsides and the young men return to their lush apartments on Mount Auburn Street...