Paul Simon and Celeste Holm	Paul Simon and James Nederlander
Celeste Holm and Frank Bisili	Peter Culver and Marc Summers
John Devol and Rozanne Gold	Margo and James Nederlander
Arlene Dahl and Philip Sellinger
Anna Smolen and Peter Culver	Martin Richards
John Devol with Barbara and Philip Sellinger	Bonnie Pfeifer Evans

ARTS HORIZONS
She Divorced Her Men
But Kept The Children

Story and Photos by Tim Boxer

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EX REED was thrilled to present the Outstanding Achievement Award Broadway Salutes Arts Horizons in October at the Edison Ballroom in New York. The honoree was Arlene Dahl, legendary star of 30 motion pictures, including My Wild Irish Rose, and 19 plays.

"Life," Reed said, "is measured not by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."

He said that Dahl was the first screen star he ever met. "She was in movies with the greatest stars – and outlived them all."

Dahl, 82, said she signed her photo for Reed "with my eyebrow pencil and you’ve been a friend ever since. It’s been 59 years, older than most of my children and some of my husbands."

Dahl counted 3 children (including Lorenzo Lamas), 8 grandchildren – "17 if you count the step grandchildren."

She added, "I divorced the husbands and kept the children!"

As a young man Reed collected every photograph he could find on "this luscious Technicolor MGM redhead. I would buy up all the magazines at the drugstore and cut out all her articles."

He related his early obsession with movie stars to Jean Simmons who replied, "Too bad I didn’t know you then. I could have given you Stewart Granger himself."

Founded 32 years ago by musician/educator John Devol, Arts Horizons has impacted on the lives of 8 million children in the tristate region through its arts programs for inner city youths.

Celeste Holm, an Oscar winner for the 1947 film Gentlemen’s Agreement, is chairman of Arts Horizons board of trustees. Rozanne Gold, author of the just published Radically Simple, is also a board member. The national advisory board includes producers Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley.

Marc Summers, host of Unwrapped on the Food Network and Double Dare on Nickelodeon, served as emcee and presented awards also to Paul Simon, who entertained the audience, and Philip R. Sellinger, managing shareholder of the New Jersey office of the Greenberg Traurig law firm.

Executive director Elizabeth Halverstam, who’s been with the organization 25 years, is amazed at the success of the after-school arts programs. "These kids are in school, making something of themselves, instead of being in a gang and getting into trouble."