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December 10, 2007 12:18 pm
Thursday night, the Saatchi Gallery looked more like an elementary school cafeteria than a blue-chip art gallery. On display were a vast collection of, er, lunch boxes. Designed by various A-list celebrities, the lunch boxes were part of the “Celebs Do Lunch… Boxes” auction, proceeds of which will go to the Food Bank for New York City. Of course, while the night’s décor played up the lunchroom theme (florescent lighting included), the crowd was hardly a bunch of gum-smacking fifth graders. “I could only wish my cafeteria had people like this in it,” was how Billy Crudup put it. Patti Smith, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Priscilla and Lisa Maria Presley, Rain Phoenix, and Topaz Page-Green bid on lunch boxes designed by the likes of Cameron Diaz (an autographed paper bag), Natalie Portman (a felt purple sunset motif), and Gyllenhaal herself (a mirrored jewelry box that many guests covertly used for makeup and hair checks). Not to be outdone by the Tinseltowners, REM frontman Michael Stipe opted to decorate a large mailbox and stuff it with 60 personal prints of famous folk like Heath Ledger, Penelope Cruz, and George Clooney. Christie’s Lydia Fenet, who auctioned off Stipe’s box for a whopping $35,000, described it best: “With these, you’ll be the coolest kid in school for sure.”
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