Celebrities were on the New York City scene last week.
Last Monday, Lena Dunham celebrated the publication of her new memoir, “Famesick,” at the iconic Algonquin Hotel.
We’re told the “Girls” creator was joined by her longtime friend and “The C-Word” podcast co-host Alissa Bennett, for a “rowdy conversation” about the book.
A few blocks away, John Oliver, Ronny Chieng, Zarna Garg, Andrew Schulz, Hasan Minhaj, Josh Johnson and Iliza Shlesinger all performed at the Garden of Laughs event at Radio City Music Hall.
Further downtown, the WNBA’s newest star, Azzi Fudd, celebrated her No. 1 draft seed at Recreation Bar at Moxy NYC Downtown.
We’re told Fudd hosted an “electric” private event, where she used the venue’s signature half-court and lounged in the retro library. Takeaway gifts included lip care from Paula’s Choice and branded basketballs.
On Tuesday, unlikely duo Gayle King and Gia Giudice posed for a photo together at the Old Navy x Christopher John Rogers event in Times Square.
Other attendees included Katie Holmes, Chloe Fineman and Kimora Lee Simmons.
Over at the David Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, Holmes and Joshua Jackson ran into each other at the New York gala screening of “Brunello: The Gracious Visionary.”
“Photographers went nuts” when the former “Dawson’s Creek” co-stars snapped some pics together, a spy told us.
Also there was Christie Brinkley and her daughter, Sailor Brinkley-Cook, Allison Williams, Martha Stewart, Naomi Watts, Shonda Rhimes, and Grace Gummer.
On Wednesday, the cast of Broadway’s “Fear of 13” celebrated opening night with an afterparty at The Pool in Midtown. Emmy Rossum, Common, Rebecca Hall, Mamie Gummer, Adrien Brody and his partner, Georgina Chapman, were there.
At the show, we hear Brody threw a bouquet of flowers up to Nick Yarris, whom he plays in the show opposite Tessa Thompson. (Yarris spent 22 years on death row in Pennsylvania after being wrongfully convicted of rape and murder, and was exonerated by DNA testing in 2003.)
At the Upper West Side’s Adler Hall, Emma Grede interviewed Martha Stewart for “Start with Yourself: a New Vision for Work & Life” in front of sold out crowd.
On Thursday, a Page Six Spy spotted Patrick Schwarzenegger ordering a healthy bowl for lunch at Matter in Noho.
“It looked like he was reading the nutritional facts very carefully while ordering at the kiosk,” the spy said.
That evening, Matt Damon stopped by the afterparty for Broadway’s “Proof” at Lighthouse on Pier 61 to support his “Ocean’s 11” co-star Don Cheadle.
“They had a big hug and chummy reunion,” a source said.
Other A-listers in tow included Anna Wintour, Busy Philipps, Michelle Williams, Nicholas Braun, Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, as well as the show’s stars Ayo Edebiri, Kara Young, Jin Ha and director Tommy Kail.
Before the show, we’re told Cheadle and his co-stars organized a coffee cart outside the theater for the press and the crew.
On Saturday night, Jon Bernthal auctioned off his T-shirt from his “Dog Day Afternoon” costume to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
“The auction got so heated they ended up auctioning off two costume tees for $10,000 to benefit the organization,” an insider said.
Downtown, the Team Fox NYC Young Professionals hosted their annual Foxy Gala at Tribeca’s Hall des Lumières in support of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
We’re told 800 people attended and sponsors included Jimmy John’s, Blue Owl, Skadden, Tito’s, Crumbl, and The Magnum Ice Cream Company. We hear they have raised more than $355,000.
While Fox was not in attendance, the “Back to the Future” star was present for his foundation’s fourth annual “A Country Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s” event at the Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Belmont University in Nashville earlier in the week.
The evening — hosted by NBC “Sunday Today” anchor Willie Geist, whose father, Bill Geist, lives with Parkinson’s — raised $1.5 million for the cause.
Musical headliners included Eric Church and Little Big Town and comedians Dusty Slay, Aaron Weber and Maggie Hughes DePalo also performed.
Back in Manhattan, celebs flocked to the premiere of “The Sheep Detectives” at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Sunday.
We hear Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Chris O’Dowd, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brett Goldstein, Regina Hall and Molly Gordon were there.
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