Extraordinary Measures

Harrison Ford, Megan Crowley, Keri Russell, Brendan Fraser, John Crowley, Aileen Crowley, Patrick Crowley, and John Crowley Jr. at a screening of Extraordinary Measures, hosted by The Cinema Society and John and Aileen Crowley.

Thursday night was the benefit preview of the annual Winter Antiques Show at the armory on 67th and Park. This is the 56th annual, benefiting the East Side House Settlement in the South Bronx. The East Side House Settlement benefits from the net proceeds of all preview parties and all general admission receipts from the show.

The East Side House Settlement is located in one of the poorest congressional districts in the United States, the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx. East Side House provides educational services, computer technology training, counseling and other forms of assistance.

Peter Brant, the well known art collector, was Honorary Chairman of the evening. Arie Kopelman is Chairman of the Winter Antiques Show Committee and Sallie Krawcheck, President, Global Wealthy & Investment Management of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, was Opening Night Party Chair.

Cetie Ames

William Singer and Catherine Sweeney Singer

Deb Fitzgerald and Sara Sterato

Deborah Terhune and Amelia Prounis

Nikisha Nives, Guest, Guest, Martha Stewart, and Dollie Figueroa

Morley Safer and friends

Christopher Buck and Deborah Buck

Cece Black and Lee Black

Tom Gates and Margo Langenberg

Susan Magrino, Christopher Mason, and Jim Dunning

Ellie Kim, Anne Kennedy, and Kelly Carparotta

Karen Wadkins-Levy, Olivia Wright, and Lu Willard Hoffman

Marilyn and Larry Friedland

Carrie Barratt

Dollie Figueroa and Nikisha Nives

Joyce Cowin

Carl Nold, Sally Krawcheck, and Arie Koppelman

Lucinda Ballard and Peter Brant

Martha Stewart

Celerie Kemble

Margo Langenberg

Leigh Wishner

Guests of the Event

Virginia White and Betsy Butera

Christina Gerber and Shelli Galati

Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch

Pamela Fiori

Allen and Julie Behr

Alex Papachristidis

Alexandra and Sheila Kotur

Beth Rudin DeWoody and Debbie Bancroft

Kimberly and Kelly Schrimsher

Coco Kopelman, Arie Kopelman, Katherine Bryan, and Carol Mack

Mariana and George Kaufman

Diane van Amerongen

Elihu Rose and Kathy Steinberg

Francesca Petrucci and Stephen Corelli

Heather Hahn

Leslie Bowman and Thomas Jayne

Cynthia Lufkin, Mark Gilbertson, and Laura Freeman

Mary Millner and Claudia Scier

Gillian and Sylvester Miniter

Harvey and Linda Saligman

Irene Aitken

John M. Davis

Peter Foley

Polly Onet, Bronson van Wyck, and Claudia Overstrom

Will Kopelman and Heather Hahn

Leigh and Leslie Keno

Meg Hayes and Cameron Shay

Joan McGivern

Judie and Bennett Weinstock

Katherine Bryan

Katie Kindt and Oliver Colt

Peter and Jamee Gregory

Jennifer Garland Ross, Valerie Kimball, and Jane DeFlorio

Reed and Delphine Krakoff

Lorry Newhouse

Leigh Wishner and Sarah Halle

Nicholas Vincent and Catherine McKay

Zandra Foxx

Shari Markbreiter and Roger Siboni

Dr. Robert Grant, Jane Schott, and Dr. Kevin Plancher

Stephanie Stiefel and Robert Cohen

Photographs by Patrick McMullan

This past Thursday at the School of Visual Arts on 333 West 23rd Street, the Cinema Society and John and Aileen Crowley hosted a screening of Extraordinary Measures in the presence of the film’s three stars, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell and Harrison Ford and the film’s director Tom Vaughan.

This was a very special and moving evening. Extraordinary Measures, produced by Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, was inspired by the incredible true story of John Crowley, a man who defied conventional wisdom and great odds, and risked his family's future to pursue a cure for his children's life threatening disease.


	Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell, and Harrison Ford

Crowley, played by Brendan Fraser, had begun to taste success in corporate America with his career taking off, when his two youngest children are diagnosed with a fatal disease. With his wife, played by Keri Russell, Crowley teams up with a brilliant, but unappreciated and unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford). Together they form a bio-tech company focused on developing a life-saving drug.

One driven to prove himself and his theories, the other by a chance to save his children, this unlikely alliance battles the medical and business establishments in a fight against the system, and time. But when it appears that a solution has been found, the relationship between the two men faces a final test — the outcome of which will affect the fate of John's children.

Shamberg and Sher also produced World Trade Center and Erin Brockovich. Robert Nelson Jacobs (The Water Horse, Chocolat) wrote the screenplay, which was inspired by the book The Cure by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geeta Anand.

After the screening, the star-packed crowd moved on to the Bowery Hotel for a dinner and party which went until after midnight.