Hollywood power players turned out in full force at Saban Community Clinic’s milestone 50th anniversary gala on Monday evening to toast a few of their own inside the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom.
The event raised a whopping $2.2 million for Saban — a network with seven clinics across Los Angeles (and a new 12,000-sq.ft outpost on the way in the Crenshaw corridor) that provide quality healthcare to anyone who walks through the doors — and it did so by packing the ballroom with A-list studio and network executives, agency partners, producers, actors and show creators like Dan Fogelman, Sam Levinson and Jonathan Nolan.
A majority came to support the cause (growing more urgent by the day ) and celebrate the night’s headliner honorees, Amazon MGM Studios’ Peter Friedlander and former Showtime chief David Nevins , while others, however, quipped they couldn’t escape the gravitational pull of event linchpin Ellen Hoberman or longtime Saban champions like event chair Richard Weitz .…