Amanda Gordon

Daniel S. Loeb put aside discussions with Sony Corp. last night to be the first honoree at the first gala for Success Academy Charter Schools.

Henry Kravis and Leon Black benefit- hopped last night from the Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma event at Rockefeller Center to the Museum of Modern Art’s Party in the Garden.

Miami came to Manhattan last night, at a gala honoring the chief executive officer for Latin America of Banco Itau Unibanco, Ricardo Villela Marino.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recalled Harrison Ford jumping out from behind a big potted plant. He wasn’t playing Han Solo or Indiana Jones, but rather a conservationist handing out a position paper on the oceans.

Nine hundred guests dined last night at Pier 57, a former bus depot, festooned with photographs of the High Line hanging from clotheslines.

Just before 10 last night, NBC News anchor Brian Williams said the total amount raised at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit was “$72,559,253 and counting.”

Bill Ackman celebrated his birthday by giving a present.

“We have to stop. I just pulled that note out of the blue,” said Audra McDonald on stage last night at Avery Fisher Hall. “I’m so proud of myself. Yay, Juilliard!”

Andrew J. Hall, who’s building a farm empire in Vermont selling lavender soap and cider, last night bought a trip to handmade-cigar haven Cuba.

Marissa Mayer, chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc., colored her hair in pinstripes of red, blue and green to go with her red dress.

At a benefit for the Metropolitan Opera last night, Joe Torre noted the connection between opera and baseball.

Richard Perry, president of Perry Partners LP and chairman of Barneys New York, was in his very red library last night when he pulled out a copy of Life magazine from 1964.