You already know that
Monte and
Avery Lipman were
City of Hope's Spirit of Life honorees on 10/27 at L.A.'s
Pacific Design Center. You're also likely aware that the event was studded with biz heavies and raised more than $4m to fight cancer and other dread diseases. You perhaps intuited that a lot of people who hadn't seen one another in person since the pandemic started fell on each other with glad cries. And you can't be surprised that we got our grubby mitts on a bunch of photos from the event. Sadly, there is still no known cure for
us.
Billy Porter served as MC and sang (yes, we cried a little); other performers included
Jack Johnson, the
Jonas Brothers and rookie
Sekou. A droll
Succession-spoofing video saw
Taylor Swift encouraging Avery to give Monte the heave-ho. It would've been a perfect evening but for the phalanx of trade-rag idiots at the back.
Seen just before resuming their choreography as
Billy Porter's backup dancers are (l-r)
Janet Lipman, Avery Lipman, Porter,
Remy Lipman and Monte Lipman.
Seen wishing this powerhouse pic were running on a more prestigious website are (l-r)
Virgin prez
Jacqueline Saturn,
UMG EVP
Michele Anthony,
Capitol Music Group ruler
Michelle Jubelirer,
CAA's
Jenna Park Adler,
UMPG Chairman/CEO
Jody Gerson and UMG President of Global E-Commerce and Business Development
Richelle Parham.
Seen here feeling the philanthropic festivity are (l-r)
CAA Head of Music
Rob Light,
Epic Chair/CEO
Sylvia Rhone,
Warner Records Co-Chair/COO
Tom Corson,
iHeartMedia President/
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame boss
John Sykes, Warner Co-Chair/CEO
Aaron Bay-Schuck and
Hipgnosis honcho
Merck Mercuriadis. Later, there was fierce bidding for a catalog of classic trade-rag captions.
UMG EVP, Marketing
Andrew Kronfeld, Avery and UMG EVP, Chief People & Inclusion Officer
Eric Hutcherson enjoy the in-person camaraderie while wishing we'd stay virtual.
Republic Co-President
Wendy Goldstein is flanked by star artists
John Legend and
The Weeknd. Happily, everyone could feel their faces.
Avery,
Giant Publishing's
Shawn Holiday, artist
Daniel Caesar, Republic Co-President
Jim Roppo and Monte observe that standing absolutely still is one way to elude trade nerds.
The Lipman brothers and the
Jonas Brothers compare notes on sibling harmony.
UMPG's
Evan Lamberg, who co-hosted the event, promised UMG's
Boyd Muir and
Will Tanous that next time he'd try to move our table a little farther away from their line of sight.
Monte poses with event performer
Jack Johnson and
HITS COO
Todd Hensley, whose tales of tuna fishing made his companions instantly drowsy.
If you can name everyone in this super-heavy tableau, you'll win a free lifetime subscription to our website!
HITS President
Karen Glauber and
iHeart's
Lisa Worden both wondered how to switch to gallery view.
HITS COO
Todd Hensley and SVP
Simon Glickman take a brief break from annoying the crap out of everyone.
Our own
Nicole Ghapgharan and
Michael Dominguez momentarily suppressed the desire to look at their phones.
HITS'
Rebecca Baltutis and
Robin Gerber anticipated that it would be necessary to have this caption rewritten.
