The 50-year-old began the night by telling the star-studded audience the Globes were "just like the Oscars... without all that esteem".

If it were truly about basketball, the Knicks would be the team playing in front of prep-sized crowds and the Nets would be sprinting, dishing and dunking before star-studded audiences of nearly 20,000.

The high school senior from Massapequa recently won a chance to perform before a star-studded audience at a post-Grammy fete as well as a $10,000 college scholarship.

On the evening of the Carnegie show, after a bombastic overture that built high emotion, Judy appeared, looking remarkably healthy, and well-groomed, to a very loud ovation from the star-studded audience.

After three weeks in Detroit, the show moved to Los Angeles, where the premiere attracted a star-studded audience, including three Scandinavian princesses.

He urged his star-studded audience to "insulate your houses with it".

They were already a problem in 1951, when Danny Kaye cautioned the star-studded audience: "The academy asks that your speech be no longer than the movie itself."

Before the performance, the co-chairmen of the benefit told the star-studded audience that more than $2 million had been raised.

And believing that many viewers want a better look at what the star-studded audience is wearing, Mr. Carr is going to make the coverage of the arrivals longer.