Saturday, May 23, 2026

Hurricane Sandy’s First Victim: Monday Night A List Gala Featuring Sting

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Hurricane Sandy is shutting down New York’s glittering social life for a couple of days. The first casualty: super producer Nile Rodgers’ annual We Are Family Foundation dinner and concert. Rodgers and wife Nancy Hunt were scheduled to salute Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, for their charitable work with the Rainforest Foundation. Needless to say, all the tables were sold out. Sting was supposed to perform with Rodgers and his famed group, Chic. Alas, the event at the Hammerstein Ballroom was postponed last night “until the earliest possible date.” The We Are Family Foundation was born right after September 11, 2001 when Rodgers and Hunt put together a charity single version of his “We Are Family” with Diana Ross, Patti Labelle, and dozens of other stars. The foundation is for racial tolerance, but has also been very effective in building schools in Third World countries.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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