Montecito Journal - Basehart Foundation
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Montecito Journal - Basehart Foundation
CREATING SANTA BARBARA INTERIORS FOR 20 YEARS Monte ito Miscellany by Richard Mineards Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News. He moved to Montecito nine years ago. Teen’s Field of Dreams H ART INTERIORS GIFTS 1225 Coast Village Road I 805 565 4700 I KathryneDesigns.com aving sung the National Anthem at the Santa Barbara Polo Club for the past two weekends, 13-year-old Garden Street Academy student Cole Evers is expanding his horizons. The talented performer, a member of Janet Adderley’s Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre, is hitting the big time singing in front of nearly 42,000 sports fans at Chicago’s legendary Wrigley Field before a game between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Mets, who used to be co-owned by an old friend, the late Nelson Doubleday. “Cole decided his summer project would be to try to sing the National Anthem at a major league baseball stadium,” says his entrepreneur father, Scott Evers. Working with his school’s musical director, Ian Putnam, he recorded it a Cole Evers faces his biggest-ever audience at Chicago’s Wrigley Field capella on the academy’s professional equipment, added his resume, and wrote personal letters to all 30 major league baseball teams. “Every year, tens of thousands of performers apply to every profession- MISCELLANY Page 284 Are you tired in the morning? Are you getting quality sleep? Do you snore? Have no energy? Do you suffer from poor sleep? 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Cole confirmed immediately and will be performing for the largest audience of his career.” Last fall, Janet asked the youngster to join an equally talented group of singers to record “Sorridi Amore Vai” from the film Life is Beautiful on Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s album Cinema. Cole learned the song in both Spanish and Italian and was featured singing both melody and harmony when the album was recorded at EastWest Studios in Hollywood in the same room the late Michael Jackson recorded Thriller, Elvis Presley filmed his 1968 comeback special, and Frank Sinatra sang “My Way” and “New York, New York”. Cole’s group was then asked by multi Grammy Award-winner David Foster to sing live with the blind songmeister at the Dolby Theater, just a tiara’s toss away, for the taping of the Thirteen Great Performances TV special on PBS. Besides working with Foster and Bocelli, Cole was able to meet several presenters, including John Travolta, Andy Garcia, and Nicole Scherzinger. Cole, who I last wrote about in this illustrious organ two years ago, has now completed 30 auditions and call backs for Broadway shows in New York. “He trains very hard with very demanding coaches in Manhattan and is now called to audition with a very select group of extremely talented boys,” says Scott. “He has made it to the ‘final two’ several times, and it’s always fun to hear your agent say ‘Whatever you do, don’t leave town!’” No matter what happens on the Great White Way, Cole’s confidence and ability impresses all who see him. On a single day last December, he had second auditions for both The King and I – working with 2015 Tony Award best actress winner Kelli O’Hara – and the lead child role in School of Rock. His times were only 45 minutes apart, meaning that in less than an hour, Cole performed as a proper 1860s British schoolboy living in Siam and then dashed 11 blocks into a crowded music store in Times Square for a quick warmup on lead guitar and drums, while donning a leather jacket and coolly aced his audition on borrowed equipment accompanied by a live rock band. Cole, whose ever-encouraging mother, Monique, died in February after a valiant six-year battle with breast cancer, has taken a break from New York and Los Angeles casting. but recently shot Nerris Nassiri’s movie Charlie and the Baker, about an orphan boy who meets a recent widower, with both reconciling losses through empathy and the magical power of music, beating out dozens of other applicants, with Nassiri describing him as “a director’s dream.” The independent film is being screened in L.A. this summer and submitted for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Clearly, a seventh-grader destined for the big time. Seasons Change Montecito hotelier Ty Warner is hitting the roof! The Beanie Baby billionaire, who owns the San Ysidro Ranch and the Biltmore, is undertaking a major renovation of the ornately decorated ceilings at the Four Seasons property across from Butterfly Beach. “We started on the project more than one year ago to apply period specific stenciled patterns on many of the existing ceilings throughout the common areas,” says the tony hostelry’s publicist, Daniel Howard. “This work has been continually worked on by a team of artisans for the past 12 months, in many cases including multiple crews with overlapping schedules, working 24 hours a day.” Work is now nearing completion this month in the sprawling lobby, following renovation in the Ty Lounge for three months, and last fall the areas around the Bella Vista restaurant were completed. “Design inspiration came from the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, several Reginald Johnson residential estates, a few notable structures in Europe, and even the owner’s home in Montecito, a Venetian-inspired estate,” says Daniel. “Ownership created the final design colors and patterns in collaboration with Darin Ward and his team of craftsmen and include dozens of patterns, contrasting colors, and 24-carat gold leaf detailing. All finishes are presented glazed and treated to create Newly restored ceiling in the Biltmore lobby the timeless, antique quality of a finish applied over 100 years prior.” Several million dollars have been spent so far with more to follow as other areas, such as banquet rooms and exterior wood elements, get the artisans treatment starting this fall. Year of the Lotus Lotusland, the 37-acre gardening oasis founded by opera singer Ganna Walska with more than 3,000 plants from around the globe, is officially one of the top ten gardens in the world. Top horticulturist Christopher Bailes, a judge at London’s esteemed Chelsea Flower Show, which took place last month with most of the Royal Family, including Queen Elizabeth in attendance, has written up his Top 10 list in the venerable Daily Telegraph with Lotusland a creditable fourth in the rankings after the Singapore Botanical Gardens, the Pukeiti Gardens in Taranaki, New Zealand, and Giverny in France, home of the late impressionist artist Monet, who regularly painted the lilies in his Japanese-inspired water garden. “A fantasy of remarkable set pieces of design and planting quite unlike any other garden,” Bailes gushes about Lotusland. “The living architecture of palms and succulents is juxtaposed with exotic hard landscaping using a remarkable range of materials from volcanic scoria to green glass diamonds and abalone shells. It is theatrical both in intent and in execution.” Other gardens picked for the list are the Portland Japanese Garden in Oregon, the Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden in Cape Town, South Africa, Tresco Abbey Gardens in the MEDICARE SUPPLEMENTS OR HEALTH INSURANCE We Are Your Best Choice Over 50 Plans available VIP Concierge Customer Service Local office since 1984 On-Off Exchange Plans Call Today! 805-683-3636 No fees for our services, same premiums, the choice is simple! www.sbhealthins.com | CA LIC #0773817 28 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 June 2016 Isles of Scilly, U.K., Great Dixter in Sussex, England, Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland, and the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens in Torrington, Devon, England. Gwen Stauffer, Lotusland’s executive director, describes the ranking as “an extraordinary distinction.” “As the first of only two North American gardens to make the list, we are honored to be placed among some of the world’s greatest public gardens. “Lotusland’s vision is to be renowned internationally and treasured locally. We want every Santa Barbara resident to experience this amazing botanical treasure, and we thank all who help us steward the garden for this community, as well as the world.” Dream Team featured designs by Catherine Gee, Jenni Kayne, and Miller’s Oath, while singer-songwriter Cody Lovaas entertained on guitar. Invitees noshed on fare from the Wildwood Kitchen and quaffed libations from the Potek Winery and the Third Window Brewery, with sweets from Cali Dolce Gourmet Desserts and cookies from the Himovitz familly. Among those turning out for the fashion and fun were Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Chris Lancashire, Kenny and Elizabeth Slaught, Justine Roddick, Luke Ebbin, Alan and Anne Sides, Eric and Nina Philips, Craig Springer, Heather Hambleton, Danielle Rocha, Mara Abboud, Bilo Zarif, Ricardo Calderon, Tanya Thicke, and Ali Ahlstrand. Blue Star Parking donated its services. 2nd Summer Dream Runway Fashion Show committee team: Heather Hambleton; Jacques Habra; Kisa Heyer, CEO Dream Foundation; and chair Arlene Montesano with displayed Tesla cars in background (photo by Priscilla) Dream Foundation hosted its second annual sold-out Summer Dream and fashion show at The Mill, our tony town’s new artisan marketplace on East Haley, with 250 Fashionistas helping raise $30,000 for the popular non-profit, which will benefit terminally ill adults aged 18 to 40, which make up 20 percent of those wanting dreams fulfilled. Emceed by KEYT-TV’s chief meteorologist Alan Rose, the fashion fest, chaired by Arlene Montesano, Rising Angels To mark the end of its current critically acclaimed season, the Ensemble Theatre Company staged Noel Coward’s comedy Fallen Angels, written when he was only 26 and the first production by the urbane Englishman in nearly two decades with the tony troupe. The 1920s-style New Vic production, directed by Andrew Barnicle with striking costume design by Dianne K. Graebner, stars Paige Lindsey White Top center is Santa Barbara designer, model, and event sponsor Catherine Gee in her studio surrounded by Runway Models (photo by Priscilla) Comfortably inside the prized 18th-century Wedding Bed is Petra with her father, Paul Schurch, and Beverley Jackson (photo by Priscilla) J. Paul Boehmer, Julie Granata, and Paige Lindsey White (photo by David Bazemore) and Julie Granata, with Joseph Fuqua and Matthew Floyd Miller as their respective golf-playing passionless husbands, and J. Paul Boehmer as the amorous French former lover. But Mary-Pat Green is a standout as the cigarette-smoking, piano-playing maid while the wives get increasingly drunk as the day progresses and their husbands are off playing the links in Chichester, a lengthy drive from their London flat. This heavenly and delightfully risqué production, which has attracted many larger-than-life comic actresses over time, including Tallulah Bankhead, Hermione Gingold, Hermione Baddeley, and Nancy Walker, hits the romantic nail firmly on the head with a script as sparkling as the champagne the gals are imbibing. It also marks the 10th anniversary of the talented Jonathan Fox as Ensemble’s executive artistic director. Congratulations all round. Strange Bedfellows Society doyenne Beverley Jackson and I have been in bed together many times during my nine years in our rarefied enclave. But before this news causes vexatious ripples at the Valley Club, I would explain the bed in question, an 18th-century model from Shanghai, has been used as her dining room in her Montecito home by the beach for more than three decades. Now the ornate piece of furniture, which, even after 11 visits to China, Beverley ended picking up at a Summerland antiques shop, is being dismantled, appropriately enough by the same man, Paul Schurch, who erected it more than 30 years ago. “Everybody has joined me in the bed,” laughs Beverley. “Julia Child, Kirk and Anne Douglas, bold-faced names galore.” But it seems that age has now caught up with the octogenarian socialite’s dinner guests, with many having had new knees and hips that make negotiating dinner in the bed, which, if rumor is true, used to grace a Chinese whorehouse, quite a trial, and it is being dismantled. To mark the occasion, Beverley, dressed in a full-length, green, silk Chinese tunic with a faux giant pearl necklace, hosted a farewell bash for the piece of fascinating furniture for more than 100 guests, including my Journal colleague Erin Graffy, who recited an ode to the bed which would have made John Keats proud. “It’s very sad, but needs must,” laments Beverley, as she sashayed round her home chatting to the invited throng, including Richard and Annette Caleel, Jamie and Marcia Constance, Michael and Ceil MISCELLANY Page 364 DID YOU KNOW WITH A REVERSE MORTAGE YOU KEEP THE TITLE TO YOUR HOME?? Great Kitchens Don’t Just Happen . . . • Certified They Happen by Design. 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Something is Afoot There was a lot of sole-searching going on at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club when Susan Tibbles curated Stiletto, a shoe-oriented 60 piece art exhibition, part of the monthly 2nd Fridays at SBTC, which has now been running for seven years. “It is a very diverse show, open to interpretation,” says Susan. “It is a fun, sexy thing.” The cobblery creations were judged by Maiza Hixson, chief curator of collections at the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, who awarded the Best in Show prize to Michael Long, and the Juror’s Choice Award to Tony Askew. Rosemary Gebhart and Kate Clavin merited honorable mentions and received bottles of champagne as their prizes. A most heeling experience. Four-legged Friends The Montecito home of Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz went to the dogs at the weekend when the tony twosome hosted a fund-raising bash for the Diana Basehart Foundation, a fouryear-old charity which supplements elderly and financially challenged pet owners who cannot afford their veterinary bills. Since its founding by Diana in 2012, Shoe art participant Cynthia Martin with Maiza Hixson, visual arts coordinator/ curator of collections Santa Barbara County Arts Commission as the Juror and Susan Tibbles, curator and director (photo by Priscilla) Lynne Shaw and Morrie Jurkowitz (photo by Lynn Shaw) WHEN IT COMES TO JUMBO LOANS, NEW AMERICAN FUNDING HAS MORE TO OFFER. 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Corporate Office (800) 450-2010. 9/2015 36 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 16 – 23 June 2016 Diana Basehart and Irma Jurkowitz (photo by Lynne Shaw) more than 700 pet owners have been given assistance in keeping their cats and dogs healthy and alive. “Without our help, many of the animal would have probably ending up being put to sleep,” says Diana, widow of the late actor Richard Basehart. “It is really keeping families together. Losing a pet is devastating to many people.” Among the guests supporting the worthy cause, which raised around $25,000, were Tipper Gore, Harry and Judi Weisbart, Nancy Koppelman, Ginny Vanocur, Marcia Constance, Victoria Hines, Kristi Newton, Carole Ridding, Larry Larson, Richard and SB Council member Jason Dominquez of District One; Mahil Senathirajah, board member; Pastor Bill, MLK; Cherie Topper with SCAN (Impacts of rezoning Agricultural lands to Residential Designation); Lynn Carlisle, Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center; and Marcos Vargas, The Fund for Santa Barbara executive director (photo by Priscilla) Annette Caleel, Penny Bianchi, and KEYT-TV newsman John Palminteri. All for Fund The Fund for Santa Barbara hosted its annual spring grant awards party at the Lobero Theatre Courtyard, with $190,000 going to 17 recipients, including the Alternatives to Violence Project, the William James Association, and the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County from Marcos Vargas, executive director. In the last 36 years, the fund has awarded more than $5 million to more than 1,000 community projects. In addi- tion, the organization provides free technical assistance in the areas of fundraising, community organizing, strategic planning, and effective use of media to more than 300 projects annually. Guests, noshing on food by Brenda Simon of the Secret Ingredient, while listening to live music from Tony Ybarra, included co-chairs Wendy Sims-Moten and Elsa Velasco, Anna DiStefano, Ted Rhodes, Elena Richardson, Gary Clark, Nancy Weiss, Lawanda Lyons-Pruitt, Joyce Howerton, and Sheila Davidson. Sightings: Good Morning America Hillary Blackerby (for Das Williams) presenting to Carolee Krieger, representing California Water Impact Network (photo by Priscilla) co-anchor Robin Roberts lunching at Tydes with Jeff and Hollye Jacobs...Actress Jessica Simpson at the Biltmore...Bo Derek lunching with Geonine Moriarty at Tre Lune Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301. •MJ FULL SERVICE MAINTENANCE & REPAIR Established 1978 Muller & Go s s Locally Owned IMPORT AUTO REPAIR Affordable. Effective. Efficient. Specializing In Mercedes • BMW•Audi Rolls Royce• Mini•VW 962-1613 Call for Advertising rates (805) 565-1860 www.mullerandgoss.com 424 N. 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