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The Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf) 23rd Annual Gala in the Hamptons took place at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY.

Adam Lambert Performs at The Prostate Cancer Foundation's 2023 Annual Gala

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The summer benefit supported the Annual Pcf Pro-Am Tennis Tournament and celebrated the millions raised and achievements made in the past 30 years through Pcf. Founder Michael Milken and The Gala in the Hamptons weekend hosts and sponsors welcomed guests to enjoy, engage and be entertained while helping to fund groundbreaking discoveries in cancer research.

The gala began with a lively cocktail reception as distinguished guests and athletes entered the breathtaking Parrish Art Museum terrace. Total Sponsorships and ticket sales were valued at $1.25 million. In addition to this, the live auction was swift, raising more than $5.6 million for the Foundation’s work.

The lavish dinner party gave way to special musical performances from multi-award-winning Adam Lambert.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (Pcf) Annual Gala in the Hamptons took place at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY.

Bryan Adams performing at Pcf Annual Gala in the Hamptons

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The summer benefit supported the 15th Annual Pcf Pro-Am Tennis Tournament and celebrated over $788 million raised in the past quarter-century for prostate cancer research. Founder Michael Milken and The Gala in the Hamptons weekend hosts and sponsors welcomed guests to enjoy, engage and be entertained while helping to fund the next groundbreaking discoveries in cancer research.

Notable attendees included: Michael Milken, U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy, Stewart Rahr, Rob Citrone, Tom Lee, Roger and Roxann Taylor, Tom and Gretchen Jordan, Arthur Becker, Bonnie Pfeifer Evans, Artie Rabin, Leon and Leesa Wagner, Howard Lutnick, Cliff and Barbara Sobel, Michael and Margie Loeb, David and Sybil Yurman, Larry Leeds and Lauren Vernon, Jeff and Mei Sze Greene,...

Rupert Murdoch may not have been on Twitter for long but he already has 195,897 followers, and probably more by the time you read this.

But the media magnate follows just 19 users. And six of them are related to his own companies, such as The Sun, The Times, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Fox News and his Us iPad outlet, The Daily.

He also follows the cutting edge All Things D, which specialises in reporting on digital innovation and startup companies. And he reveals his political taste with Ricochet, a forum for right-of-centre thinkers.

That leaves a select 11 individuals. Some are fairly predictable, such as Bill Gates, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey ‏and Britain's favourite TV entrepreneur Lord (Alan) Sugar. More surprising perhaps is the Afghan media owner Saad Mohseni, who runs the Moby Group.

The celebrated New York University economist Nouriel Roubini makes the list, as does a single politician...

Inside Job director Charles Ferguson caused a stir with his Oscar speech, but his suggestion that people should be jailed over the financial meltdown is simplistic

It was an easy line for an eager crowd. Picking up an Oscar for his scattergun credit crunch documentary Inside Job, director Charles Ferguson got a cheer from Hollywood's finest for a rant about the absence of prison time handed down to Wall Street banking bosses.

"Forgive me," Ferguson told his fellow movie-making luminaries. "But I must start by pointing out that three years after a horrific financial crisis caused by massive fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail. And that's wrong."

The baldness of his sentiment, widely shared by the public on both sides of the Atlantic, has caused a stir in the financial community. Interviewed afterwards by the Wall Street Journal, Ferguson expanded on his theme, declaring that "there...

Donald Trump photo by Michele Sandberg.Hair mogul Donald Trump has ended up on the Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps cutting-room floor! Unlike cameos by Vogue editor at large Hamish Bowles, economist Nouriel Roubini, billionaire Warren Buffett, and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, among many others, a scene featuring the Apprentice magnate did not make it into the final film. “I only cut it because it was distracting,” said director Oliver Stone, who promised the sequence would be included on the DVD. “He was at the end of the movie and all of sudden, ‘Hey, there’s Donald Trump!’ Structurally, I think we put him in too late.” According to the New York Post, the cameo in question took place at a barbershop, with Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko and Trump exchanging revelations about their follicular foibles. However, compared with many of the other cameos in the film, the scene sounds relatively inconspicuous.

Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump has been cut from Oliver Stone's upcoming film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the New York Post reports. His role apparently wasn't major, and the film, which director Stone told the New York Times is "about trust, love, greed, betrayal," and which Dealbreaker calls "so bad it needs to be seen to be believed," has sustained no structural damage. According to Stone, Trump once appeared near the end of the movie, to help clarify protagonist Gordon Gekko's (Michael Douglas) hairstyle preference. That bit of character development, which Stone says will be on the DVD, is "distracting." The list of those deemed not distracting includes Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics Nouriel Roubini, director Stone's mother Jacqueline Stone and Axl Rose-impersonating investor Warren Buffett -- all of whom the Post reports...

The scandal-ridden financial sector doesn't expect new films to show its good side

When Hollywood meets Wall Street, two worlds collide in a tectonic rumble of mutual loathing. A series of finance-themed movies will shortly hit big screens – and America's money-making elite are resigned to a bashing on camera.

As if the banking industry didn't have enough reputational problems, the poster boy for financial corruption, Gordon Gekko, is about to return. Played by Michael Douglas, the fictional star of Oliver Stone's 1987 hit movie Wall Street is back for a long-awaited sequel – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – and he minces few words about what he finds: "Somebody reminded me I once said 'greed is good'. Now, it seems, it's legal."

Gekko isn't the only big-screen critic for financiers to worry about. A documentary called Inside Job, by the Oscar-nominated producer Chris Ferguson, comes out next month with a narration by Matt Damon,...

Terrible intra-Times tiff: Nobel Prize-winning op-ed columnist Paul Krugman has publicly called out Too Big to Fail author (and business-desk boy wonder) Andrew Ross Sorkin. Yesterday, Sorkin wrote on the paper’s Dealbook blog, “You may recall that during the most perilous months of 2008 and early 2009, there was a vigorous debate about how the government should fix the financial system. Some economists, including Nouriel Roubini of New York University and The Times’s own Paul Krugman, declared that we should follow the example of the Swedes by nationalizing the entire banking system. They argued that Wall Street was occupied by the walking dead, and that no matter how much money we threw at the banks, they would eventually topple the system all over again and cause a domino effect worldwide.” Krugman responded today in his very serious blog for very serious people, the Conscience of a Liberal.