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"Great hosts have been known to doodle a fantasy seating chart for their ultimate dinner party. That kind of dreaming becomes reality at Time magazine\u2019s annual Time 100 dinner, which took place this year at Manhattan\u2019s Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event celebrates the magazine\u2019s \u201C100 Most Influential People in the World\u201D special issue, and the guests included Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chen Lihua (the richest woman in China), Martha Stewart, Tilda Swinton, Alice Walton, Harvey Weinstein, Kristen Wiig, and Chelsea Handler, who was on the arm of hotelier Andre Balazs.\n\nGreat hosts have been known to doodle a fantasy seating chart for their ultimate dinner party. That kind of dreaming becomes reality at Time magazine\u2019s annual Time 100 dinner, which took place this year at Manhattan\u2019s Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event celebrates the magazine\u2019s \u201C100 Most Influential People in the World\u201D special issue, and the guests included Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chen Lihua (the richest woman in China), Martha Stewart, Tilda Swinton, Alice Walton, Harvey Weinstein, Kristen Wiig, and Chelsea Handler, who was on the arm of hotelier Andre Balazs. To liven up the cocktail hour, we asked Time 100 honorees and other notable guests to tell us about influential people in their lives. While we had them buttonholed, we also managed to work in a few questions about the style of their homes.\n\nPinterestFacebook@Patrick McMullan\n\nBarbara Walters, wearing a vintage red Bill Blass dress that matched the entrance carpet, not only had a famous father (nightclub owner Lou Walters) but she\u2019s been interviewing top celebrities for decades, of course. \u201CI think Abraham Lincoln is the only president I didn\u2019t get to interview,\u201D she joked. \u201CBut when I was growing up, there were not many female journalists to look up to. I never had a mentor.\u201D\n\nWhat Walters likes most about the interiors Mario Buatta designed for her home, she says \u201Cis that it is very comfortable. You can put your feet up at the end of the day.\u201D\n\nArianna Huffington enthusiastically cited family as a key influence. \u201COh, my God, yes, my mother\u2014she taught me never to be afraid of failing,\u201D said the Huffington Post founder. \u201CAnd I met a lot of people at the Cambridge Union, where I was debating, such as George Steiner, a professor who was a phenomenal speaker and writer. Some of the politicians who came and spoke really moved us.\u201D\n\nHuffington has a house on each coast by different designers. \u201CThe one in Los Angeles is Italianate, with a lot of color. In New York it\u2019s very simple and monochromatic.\u201D\n\nPinterestFacebook@Patrick McMullan\n\nWho influenced Matt Lauer? \u201CThe obvious answer,\u201D said the Time 100 honoree, \u201Cis my parents\u2014a clich\u00E9. But also there were people who took a chance on me when I was down, like Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric. I would count him high on my list.\u201D\n\nFor his Today show cohost Ann Curry, it was her father. \u201CHe told me that no matter what I wanted to do in life, I should do something of service, because at the end of my life I would know that it mattered that I was born,\u201D she revealed. \u201CIf I had to pick two great ones, I\u2019d say Gloria Steinem\u2014I wouldn\u2019t be here without her\u2014and Walter Cronkite. When I met him, I could barely speak. And when he was told that I admired him so much, he taped a statement for an awards ceremony for me. I was so surprised by it; all of a sudden, there was Walter Cronkite saying nice things about me and my work.\u201D\n\nPinterestFacebook@Patrick McMullan\n\nA fashion leader, Rihanna wore a shoulderless fuchsia dress by Marchesa that revealed a tattoo written in reverse script. \u201CIt does not get much better than this\u2014being a part of this list,\u201D said the singer, who performed three songs later in the evening. \u201CIt doesn\u2019t feel real. This is a list of people you admire that you never think you\u2019d be a part of it.\u201D Influencers? \u201CMy family, of course. I have an incredible family. But to me, the idea is not to be influenced but to be yourself.\u201D\n\nPinterestFacebook\u00A9Patrick McMullan\n\n\u201CI met Stevie Wonder,\u201D said David Lauren, strolling into the event with his wife, Lauren Bush Lauren. \u201CThat was pretty cool. I was going through an airport, and I just walked over and shook his hand.\u201D\n\nSince her uncle and grandfather were both United States presidents, one imagines Mrs. Bush Lauren, who is also the founder of the nonprofit FEED Projects, might have met a few heavy hitters growing up. \u201CKristi Yamaguchi, the skater,\u201D she said, \u201Cwas huge for me.\u201D\n\nAnd the Laurens\u2019 apartment\u2014Ralph Lauren\u2013style? \u201CYes,\u201D affirmed Lauren Bush Lauren. \u201CGood answer,\u201D her husband chimed in.\n\nPinterestFacebook@Patrick McMullan\n\nDr. Mehmet Oz, as charming in person as he is on TV, was wowed by cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard as a kid. \u201CI was probably about 10 when I met this doctor who did the world\u2019s first heart transplant,\u201D Dr. Oz recounted. \u201CHe came to visit my family, and I remember sitting with him. To me, he was like a Navy fighter pilot. He had this magical ability to do things that were daredevil and succeed. People like that can influence you in a profound way.\u201D\n\nAnd the Dr. Oz interior? \u201CEclectic,\u201D interjected his wife, Lisa Oz. \u201CAnd not necessarily in a good way. I need a designer. If you can recommend someone great, please let me know.\u201D\n\n\u201CIt\u2019s an Italian villa\u2013style house,\u201D said Dr. Oz. \u201CAnd you can live in it\u2014it\u2019s not a museum or a shrine, but it\u2019s elegant. We have a lot of 18th- and 19th-century paintings, which I think make it look cool. We have some more modern pieces as well. Even though it has a graceful, older appeal, it\u2019s a new house. There are no curtains. We face Manhattan, and when I get up, I see the sun come up over the city. It\u2019s a high.\u201D\n\nMia Farrow, the daughter of actress Maureen O\u2019Sullivan and director John Farrow, described being sick as a child, and said it was doctors who impressed her, not Hollywood celebrities. \u201CIt was the time of polio, and doctors were afraid of their patients. I remember one doctor who wasn\u2019t. He had calmness, courage, savvy. Later, I would meet Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, people who stood for what they believe in. I\u2019ve been fortunate to meet a lot of amazing people.\u201D\n\nAnd her interior? \u201CMy mother always said, \u2018Don\u2019t follow any fashion. If you\u2019re never fashionable, you\u2019ll never be out of fashion.\u2019 My look is old and comfortable, with no edges. If I see a sharp corner, I have a negative visceral reaction.\u201D\n\nPinterestFacebook\u00A9Patrick McMullan\n\nWriter and conservative political commentator Ann Coulter, who, at times has an edge on camera, has a soft spot for family, citing her oldest brother especially. \u201CWhen he was in law school and I was in junior high, I\u2019d stay with him at his Upper East Side apartment,\u201D she recounted. \u201CHe\u2019d make me read a book by Milton Friedman and quiz me on it before we could go out drinking. And Phyllis Schlafly is fabulous. I met her at a DAR [Daughters of the American Revolution] meeting with my mother.\u201D\n\nPinterestFacebook@Patrick McMullan\n\nRepresenting the opposite end of the political spectrum, Ralph Nader described a brush with greatness he had at Princeton when he encountered Norman Thomas, who was speaking at both mens\u2019 alma mater. \u201CHe ran for president six times on the Socialist ticket,\u201D said Nader. \u201CHe really pushed Roosevelt to adopt a lot of programs that we now take for granted\u2014Social Security and, later, Medicare and unemployment compensation. I ended up walking him to his hotel.\u201D Apparently an inquisitive guest himself, Nader said that he asked Thomas about his greatest achievement. Thomas replied: \u201CHaving the Democrats steal my platform.\u201D\n\nSo how does perennial presidential candidate Nader live at home? \u201CIt\u2019s pretty practical,\u201D he said. \u201CSort of old Navy.\u201D But Old Navy doesn\u2019t have a furniture line, pointed out the Inquisitive Guest. \u201CNo,\u201D Nader said. \u201CI really mean old Navy, like World War II Navy.\u201D"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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