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RANDOM NOTES
BY ANTHONY BOZZA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art rolled out the red carpet for a celebrity-stuffed black-tie benefit dinner in honor of the Costume Institute's Rock Style exhibit, which will be on display in New York through March before it moves to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and then on to London. The $2,500-a-plate surf-and-turf dinner, held in the museum's Petrie Court, was attended by 850 fashion, film and rock folk, suck as MILLA JOVOVICH, CHRISTINA RICCI, ELIZABETH HURLEY, NAOMI CAMPBELL, CALVIN KLEIN, ANJELICA HUSTON, DEBORAH HARRY, DONATELLA VERSACE, JERRY SEINFELD, MINNIE DRIVER and exhibit sponsor TOMMY HILFIGER. The lucky diners politely sat through an out-of-place performance by PUFF DADDY, whose white jacket was so big he should have called himself Sta-Puffy. "Come on, put your hands in the air," he coaxed the poker-faced crowd. "Don't be afraid." There were so many design houses in the house -- including GUCCI, ARMANI, and VERSACE -- that fights nearly broke out over which celebrity would be the guest of which designer. Calvin Klein lost the battle for its own spokes-rocker, LIZ PHAIR, who sat at LEVI'S table with THIRD EYE BLIND's STEPHEN JENKINS, whose girlfriend, CHARLIZE THERON, was on loan to Armani. Phair was as awestruck as a rube. "You really couldn't turn around without seeing someone famous," said the petite rocker. "You should have seen the ladies' bathroom. Putting on lipstick next to Milla Jovovich works for me. It was like standing on a fashion set of all your favorite models. There were two levels of women: those that were seven feet tall and the rest of us. But I tell you, the taller lovelies have immense feet. It made me feel much better about my height. As much as I would love to be tall and gorgeous, I don't want to have huge feet."



Rolling Stone, January 20, 2000



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