The Rose Main Reading Room during dinner.
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The New
York Public Library honored John
Hope Franklin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Martin
Scorsese and Tom Stoppard at
the Tenth Anniversary Library Lions Benefit
on November 5, at the Humanities and Social
Sciences Library. Tony award-winning actress Jennifer
Ehle served as the evening's
Master of Ceremonies.
620 guests enjoyed cocktails in Astor Hall
followed by dinner and a program in the third
floor main reading room. They were later joined
by 500 additional guests for a dance party
in Astor Hall hosted by the Young Lions, a
membership group of New Yorkers in their 20s
and 30s who support the work of the Library. The
Library was lit by 4,000 candles for the evening's
celebrations.
The evening raised 2.6 million dollars. All
proceeds benefit the Library's General
Book Fund. The event's co-chairs were Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar de la Renta, H.R.H. Princess Firyal,
Mr. Lionel I. Pincus. Mr. and Mrs.
Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Mr. and Mrs.
Felix Rohatyn, Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen A. Schwarzman, and The
Honorable Merryl H. Tisch and Mr.
James S. Tisch. Young Lion co-chairs
were Mr. Nicholas T. Brown, Ms. Lauren
Bush, Ms. Amanda Hearst, Mr. Hudson Morgan and Ms.
Andrea Olshan.
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Honorees Tom Stoppard and Jhumpa
Lahiri.
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Honorees John Hope Franklin and Martin Scorsese.
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Master of Ceremonies Jennifer Ehle.
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New York Public Library president Dr. Paul LeClerc; Christine
and Stephen Schwarzman.
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Co-chairs Oscar and Annette de la Renta.
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Co-chairs Felix and Elizabeth Rohatyn.
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Co-chairs Thomas and Alice Tisch.
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Young Lion co-chairs Amanda Hearst, Hudson Morgan,
Lauren Bush, Nicholas T. Brown, and Andrea Olshan.
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Louise Grunwald and co-chair Princess Firyal.
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Howard and Abby Milstein; Catherine C. Marron.
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Donald and Susan Newhouse.
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Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Diane Taylor.
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Chosan and Brian Grazer.
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Donald and Catherine C. Marron.
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Alice Tisch and Gayfryd Steinberg.
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Diane von Furstenberg, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Joel Klein and Christine C. Quinn.
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Sheila and Tom Wolfe.
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Elliot Goldenthal and Julie Taymor.
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Luciana Pedraza and Robert Duvall.
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Carolina Herrera.
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Jimmy Fallon.
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Sila Calderon.
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Susan Fales-Hill.
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Christine Baranski.
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New York Public Library |
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