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June
7 - 8 – In pouring rain, thousands of race fans turned
out for the 135th running of the Belmont Stakes, the third
of America’s Triple Crown horse races. This year, underdog
Funny Cide surprised the racing world by taking the title
at both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, but failed
to win at Belmont – actually not surprising, since the
last horse to win all three races was Affirmed in 1978. The
Hollywood set joined the horsey set, with Matthew
Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker,
Sigourney Weaver, Goldie Hawn,
Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw,
and The Sopranos’ John Ventimiglia,
Steven Schirripo and Michael Imperioli
all biting their nails until the heart-pounding finish.
At a New Festival post-screening party for the film Ghostlight,
director Stephen Daldry and his wife Lucy
Sexton brought their newborn child, but wouldn’t
tell us the infant’s name or sex. The openly gay Daldry,
Oscar-nominated for The Hours and Billy Elliot,
surprised everyone, including his mother, by marrying a woman
in 2001. You may recall that Daldry was widely quoted from
an Advocate interview, saying, “Do I have sex
with my wife? Yes. Is it a real marriage? Yes. Am I gay? Yes.”
When we asked what brought Daldry to the party at the posh
boutique Jeffrey, he told us that Ghostlight’s
writer/producer and star, Richard Move, is
his roommate. “You mean your roommate from college?”
we asked. “No, now”, he replied, at which point
his publicist cut him off. Back in the 1990’s, Sexton
and Move were both involved with the legendary Jackie 60 cabaret
at the now-defunct club Mother.
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