After this, Broadway:
The CHOC Follies has staged its annual local celeb show in a college auditorium, at a crumbling El Toro theater and under tents, netting $3 million for Children’s Hospital. For its 10th year next May 20 and 21 the Follies has landed the OC Performing Arts Center. “I’m so excited I can barely stand it,” bubbled Grand Dame Gloria Zigner, promising “beyond the best show ever” …
Even by Pacific Club standards, it was a power lunch: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with three dozen lawyers, judges and other Chapman U backers, including law Dean Parham Williams, U.S. District Judge Alicemarie Stotler, Bankruptcy Judge James Barr, presiding state Appeals Judge David Sills, Latham & Watkins’ Bob Currie and Sheppard Mullin’s Andy Guilford. “I sat to his immediate right,” said Wylie Aitken, who sits well left of Scalia ideologically. Aitken said they made small talk, discovering both went to Catholic high schools. And Scalia seemed “genuinely interested” in Aitken’s explanation of California’s bipartisan method for screening judicial candidates. Aitken said he disclosed he’s a Democrat and a trial lawyer,”All of the things you love, Your Honor”,prompting a “judicious smile” from Scalia. “He’s a pleasant person to have lunch with,” Aitken said …
The lunch last Monday was a break for Scalia, who taught and spoke morning, afternoon and evening on the Chapman campus to mark the law school’s 10th anniversary …
To the delight of hundreds of spectators in Memorial Hall, Scalia gave a good-natured grilling to Prof John Eastman and a fellow celebrity visitor, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. The three re-enacted a century-old Supreme Court case, with Scalia portraying the chief justice and Lockyer and Eastman playing the opposing lawyers. Lockyer said the exercise had a practical benefit of “face time with the justice”,Lockyer is scheduled to argue his first real case before the high court later this year …
Chalk up another one for Eastman. The former Clarence Thomas law clerk brought Thomas to Chapman in 1999 and now Scalia …
Saleswoman-rock climber Doreen Gunness notes she left the RRs of the OCBJ for the OC Register, where her boss is Rick Riegle …
Another RR: Rick Rayson, new OC managing partner for Deloitte & Touche …
Forbes mag put the 1,000 U.S. public companies with market caps of $1 billion to $4 billion through some analytical filters and came up with The 100 Best Mid-Cap Stocks. Not only did OC place eight companies, but three made the top 10,William Lyon Homes (second), Resources Connection (third) and Standard Pacific (eighth) …
The Montage was ranked fourth among U.S. resort hotels by Andrew Harper’s Hideaway Report and its Catalina Suite was named a “Most Decadent Suite” by Elite Traveler …
Baseball great Cal Ripken Jr. speaks at the Orangewood Children’s Foundation’s Oct. 28 luncheon in the Irvine Marriott. Call (714) 619-0204.
