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War? Pandemic? LOL The Met Ball Returns in May with Hosts Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Regina King, and Lin-Manuel Miranda

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War in Ukraine? World War III? Refugees?

Pandemic? More variants? What? Me Worry?

Anna Wintour doesn’t care. She’s got The Met Ball  returning in May with guest hosts Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Regina King, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Anna and Instagram inventor Adam Mousseri will return as the real hosts, along with Tom Ford. Kardashians will abound.

Vogue magazine is really hosting the event, which is an annual money loser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The last one was in September, delayed from May 2021.

Masked ball? Unlikely!

Vogue is part of Conde Nast, which will also sponsor the Vanity Fair Oscar party in Hollywood on March 27th. Neither party will raise money for Ukraine relief, but they will highlight excess in a time of world suffering. And that’s always a beautiful thing.

This year’s theme of both parties will be exclusion, also timely.

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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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