RICHARD JOHNSON: ‘Law & Order: SVU’ star Mariska Hargitay to be honored

“Law & Order: SVU” prima Mariska Hargitay volition beryllium honored by Audrey Gruss, the laminitis of the Hope for Depression Research Foundation (HDRF), astatine their 18th Annual Luncheon astatine the Plaza Hotel connected Nov. 12.

Previous honorees see Dakota Johnson, Anderson Cooper and Michael Phelps.

Gruss shared the quality astatine a cocktail enactment for the organization’s Junior Committee astatine Double’s, the backstage nine successful the Sherry-Netherland edifice headed by Wendy Carduner.

The enactment featured a pajama manner amusement hosted by Elizabeth Meigher,  Gillian Hearst and Melissa Breitbart.

Earlier successful the month, Meigher’s begetter Christopher Meigher, the steadfast of Quest magazine, and its diarist David Patrick Columbia welcomed Martha Stewart, Deborah Norville, Somers Farkas and Margo Langenberg, who are each connected the publication’s prestigious 400 List of notable New Yorkers.

Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was besides connected manus receiving kudos for his caller bestseller “Risks and Returns: Creating Success successful Business and Life,” which was fixed retired to the departing guests.

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From left: Eric Roberts, Cathy Moriarty and John Savage (Getty Images)

Eric Roberts, Cathy Moriarty and John Savage each were successful films nominated for Best Picture Oscars. Now they are successful movie together, “Beyond the Rush,” written and directed by Rob Sayegh.

“I wrote the communicative arsenic a elder successful precocious school,” Sayegh told me. “Thirty-two years aboriginal it’s a diagnostic film.”

Sayegh helped concern the movie astir cause maltreatment and kid enactment perversion. “I enactment up each my ain money, implicit a cardinal dollars. I sold each my crypto and each my stock.”

Moriarty, Oscar nominated for her enactment “Raging Bull,” said, “He enactment his bosom and psyche and his full full beingness into it.”

Eric Roberts, who was nominated for “Runaway Train,” said, “I play a feline who is wholly nuts. It was a time astatine campy for me.”

The self-effacing histrion joked helium is inactive impaired from a 1981 car mishap that enactment him successful a coma for 3 days. “I’m told I person immoderate encephalon damage, but that’s okay.”

Asked if his sister Julia Roberts was good with his precocious published memoir, “Runaway Train: or, The Story of My Life So Far,” Roberts said, “I haven’t talked to her astir it.”

His woman Eliza told me, “She’d fto america cognize if she were upset.”

Savage said,” There’s truthful overmuch humanity successful this film. It’s a emotion story.”

An activistic who worked to extremity apartheid successful South Africa, Savage is the arrogant gramps of Zoltan Kanno-Youngs, a White House analogous for The New York Times.

Of his top-notch cast, Sayegh said, “I was blessed and grateful they’d adjacent looked astatine my script.”

“Beyond the Rush” opens Nov. 9, Veterans Day, astatine the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival.

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Kate Hudson attends the premiere of “Shell” during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. (Jeremy Chan/Getty Images)

Kate Hudson thinks manner “empowers women with not conscionable apparel but confidence.”

She was honoring Max Mara astatine the Plaza Tuesday nighttime for the Fashion Group International’s Night of Stars Gala.

FGI President Maryanne Grisz says “We’ve been honoring the champion of the champion for forty years.”

Out connected the reddish carpet Zac Posen said helium looks for “flair” and “pizazz.”

Dennis Basso thinks manner means much contiguous than it did 40 years agone “because the young radical are focused and interesting.” He besides thinks manner was much “pigeonholed, but contiguous thing goes.”

Nicky Hilton Rothschild likes elemental stuff. “In Venice past summertime I wore a achromatic satin formal with a truly stunning tuxedo jacket.” Okay, that’s her simple.

Others determination to grant tasteful taffeta and astute schmattas included designers Elie Tahari and Stan Herman, exemplary Coco Rocha, State Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright, TikTok phenom Dixie D’Amelio and the ever fashionable philanthropist Jean Shafiroff who declared her formal “Kardashian style, it’s astir excessively sheer.”

And astir the nighttime that helps observe caller talent? Shafiroff got serious: “You mightiness beryllium sitting beside the adjacent Coco Chanel oregon Karl Lagerfeld.”

Then she daintily picked up her 10-foot bid and headed for the ballroom.

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Steven Maglio of East Harlem and Debi Maldonado of Astoria some moved to The Bronx and archetypal met portion attending Herbert H. Lehman High School.

They joined successful 1984, moved to New Jersey, and had 4 children and 5 grandchildren. They volition re-enact their wedding astatine his “NOT Just Sinatra” amusement astatine The Cutting Room connected Thursday.

After his set, Steven volition travel disconnected the signifier to articulation his wife, Debi, successful the mediate of the nightclub.

Surrounded by their children and friends serving arsenic witnesses, they volition pledge the aforesaid vows they made 40 years ago.

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Alec Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed (Getty Images)

Alec Baldwin got disconnected scot-free aft accidentally shooting the cinematographer connected his movie “Rust.” But his rookie armorer is 7 months into an 18-month condemnation for the decease of Halyna Hutchins.

Jason Goldman, who represents Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, said it is shameful that his lawsuit is incarcerated portion Baldwin, who fired the gun, is free.

“His ineligible squad was capable to get a look astatine what the grounds was due to the fact that she was tried first,” Goldman said. “She had an unfair shake.”

Baldwin’s six-shooter was expected to beryllium loaded with blanks, but fired a unrecorded round.

Goldman is readying to appeal. “Overturning the condemnation is important. We deliberation the assemblage got it wrong.”

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Barbie (Mattel, Inc./Liaison)

Barbie, the archetypal grown-up doll, was up of the times erstwhile she deed it large successful the ‘60s.

A caller show, “Barbie: A Cultural Icon,” astatine the Museum of Arts and Design shows that Barbie is Black and Hispanic, disabled and blind, with hairsbreadth of each hue and length, including 1 Barbie who was wholly bald.

At a meal enactment creation connected Wednesday, Robert Best, v.p. of Barbie Product Design astatine Mattel, was honored for his decades of work and spoke astir the value of inclusivity.

Madonna’s 12-year-old girl Estere dee-jayed for the likes of Francine LeFrak and Rick Friedberg, and Todd Cohen and Rebecca Hessel Cohen of LoveShackFancy fame.

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Out & About: Omar Hernandez volition footwear disconnected the Halloween play Oct. 25 astatine his OHLALA supper nine astatine La Goulue connected East 61st Street … Shoe decorator Vanessa Noel celebrated her day astatine her store connected East 64th Street with jeweler Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, divorcement lawyer Ken Jewel, socialite Susan Gutfreund and dermatologist Dr. Howard Sobel … Leonardo DiCaprio, Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey and Adam Sandler are a fewer of the stars who person enjoyed meals by caterer Andrea Correale of Elegant Affairs. Now, for the archetypal time, everyone with wealth tin devour similar a personage implicit the holidays by ordering at EACateringtogo.com.