The history of the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Benefit, now simply known as the Met Ball, is the history of New York's society, cultural and fashion worlds meta-mingling. The debut exhibit of the Costume Institute took place in 1946; two years later, the first event to raise the $25,000 needed to keep it afloat was held, honoring designer Norman Norell at $50 a ticket (they're $30,000 today). Freshly fired Vogue editrix Diana Vreeland took over the party in 1972, then left the reins in 1989 to co-chairs Pat Buckley and Jacqueline Onassis (Met curators Richard Martin
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- 4/8/2016
- by Beth Landman, Merle Ginsberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christopher Buckley - whose famous parents, William F. and Pat Buckley, died within months of each other after 57 years of marriage - is coming out with a book about them, "Losing Mom and Pop," in May - and it isn't going to be all sweetness and light.
"Writing this book may have been simply a way of spending more time with my parents before finally letting them go," Buckley, 56, tells Vanity Fair's Bob Colacello in the magazine's January issue.
"I honestly had no intention of writing about them.
"Writing this book may have been simply a way of spending more time with my parents before finally letting them go," Buckley, 56, tells Vanity Fair's Bob Colacello in the magazine's January issue.
"I honestly had no intention of writing about them.
- 12/1/2008
- NYPost.com
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