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While watching Square Pegs, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, LA Story, or Sex and the City, you might have thought, "You know, I could probably get along with Sarah Jessica Parker if we were friends." Here's your chance to find out: Godiva is sponsoring a Celebrity Dinner Auction with different celebrities in different cities to benefit different charities. If you bid on dinner for eight with Sarah Jessica Parker, the money goes to UNICEF and the New York Restoration Project. And dinner would be prepared by Mario Batali at Lupa. Or there's dinner in Boston with Ben Affleck (dinner by Todd English, proceeds to AT Children's Project), in LA with Leonardo DiCaprio (dinner by Govind Armstrong, proceeds to DiCap's own charity), in Miami with Ricky Martin (dinner by Allen Susser, proceeds to People for Children), and in San Francisco with Benjamin Bratt, aka Detective Rey Curtis, (dinner by Gary Danko, proceeds to Operation Rainbow). While all these sound like splendid evenings, we must say the NY dinner with SJP is sounding like the winner to us. It'll be fun to see the status of these auctions. Our money is on the SJP and DiCap dinners being the biggest moneymakers, but we might not have our pulse on the other regional tastes.
The auction begins tonight at 8PM EST, ending on October 3.
Even if you don't bid on a dinner, check out these very worthy charities yourself.
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Gothamist needs to pool together and big on this. If Gothamist wins, the people "donating" the most money get to go to the dinner.
Not a bad idea, Aaron!
wait – sarah jessica parker eats? you wouldn't know it from those gap ads. (maybe for an extra contribution you can go into the bathroom and vomit with her afterwards.)
For what it's worth, an acquaintance of mine works at a store where she's been shopping a lot recently. He says she's very nice and quite charming in person.
umm, didn't we try this with the Softball league? did we every have the outing?
A few years ago at Gramercy Tavern, I effectively had dinner with SJP and MB in the tavern part. They seemed very nice and laid back.
I've been noticing lately the number of charity food events that take place in multiple cities, but only on the coasts. I guess no one who lives more than a mile from the coast ever eats.
[i]I guess no one who lives more than a mile from the coast ever eats.[/i]
Well, they do (I mean, have you been to OH, WI, etc. lately? You can't be that fat and not eat!), but the food isn't any good. Trust me, I'm originally from Ohio.
Saturday's NY Post reports that the SJP dinner price is $7.1K, but I saw online that it's now over $15,000. I was going to go up to 20K, but it now looks like it will be over that amount.
Personally, I disagree with Jen that it's a great idea. Couldn't I spend that kind of money on the women of Gothamist, to keep them in sushi?
Update: Sarah Jessica Parker is now up to $25,300. This is $10,000 more than Ben Affleck. Benjamin Bratt is below even $3,000.
I fold!