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...entryway this Saturday night, only the plastic Coke bottles and the denim-clad undergrads would remind you that you were still in the 21st century. With the regal grace of 1940s high society, alumni and students alike gathered in Adams House for the third annual FDR Memorial Lecture and Gala Dinner. A speech given by Franklin Roosevelt’s grandson, Curtis Roosevelt, was followed by a black-tie dinner and dancing, complete with a live 10-piece orchestra playing jazz standards from...
...lecture will take place Saturday at 4:30 p.m. in Adams House dining hall. Tickets are still available at the Harvard Box Office. After the lecture, there will be a gala dinner to benefit the FDR Suite Project, "an all-volunteer effort to restore Roosevelt’s student rooms in Wesmorly to their 1904 appearance as the only memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Harvard...
...Secret Service is investigating how a pair of socialites and aspiring reality TV stars crashed a White House state dinner. Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who met the President and Vice President at the Nov. 24 gala, insist they were invited; the two could face criminal charges...
...attention-hungry Virginia socialites broke their silence on Tuesday, appearing on NBC's Today show, where they insisted that they had permission to attend the gala dinner. "We were invited, not crashers. There isn't anyone that would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that," Michaele Salahi said, but the couple did not specify who had issued the invitation. On the same program, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs denied that claim, saying, "You don't show up at the White House as a misunderstanding." The Salahis exchanged e-mails about attending the state dinner with...
...Perhaps only Michael Jackson could command premieres around the world, from the main event in Los Angeles to London to Seoul. All told, there will be 33 premieres, with 16 synched to begin at the same time and eight featuring a satellite feed showing red-carpet arrivals from the gala in Los Angeles. The numbers are staggering even to folks used to marquee-name statistics. Vivian Mayer-Siskind, who worked in the marketing department at Summit Entertainment for the launch of that other worldwide obsession Twilight, says she's impressed. "Michael Jackson is of a level that is really quite...