Audrey Hepburn (93 page)

The following year, Anne Chambers and Audrey were both honorees at the annual ASPCA gala in New York. “I was delighted to accept,” Hepburn began her speech, “because, after all, I had dogs long before I had babies.” She said she and Rob slept with their two Jack Russell terriers. Why? “Because we couldn't find a basket big enough for the four of us,” she explained.

A partial list of those performers on April 30, 1993: Roger Moore (remarks), Yo Yo Ma (Bach cello solo), American Boychoir with Atlanta Brass Ensemble (Dufay's “Gloria”), Frederica Von Stade (Mozart selections), Harry Belafonte (remarks), Pinchas Zuckerman and John Browning (Brahms sonata), Barbara Walters (remarks), Henry Mancini (“Moon River”), Tokyo String Quartet (Schubert scherzo), Michael Tilson Thomas (Ravel's “Pavane for a Departed Princess”), Gregory Peck (film tribute), Carol Vaness (Puccini aria), Tatiana Troyanos (DeFalla and Brahms songs), Hugh Downs (remarks), Terry Cook (“Deep River” spiritual), Elizabeth Taylor (film remarks), Cicely Tyson (reading), and Dave Brubeck & Ensemble (his 1954 tune “Audrey,” written—he said—with the image of Hepburn in her garden in his mind).

Among them: Dan Ackroyd, Richard Avedon, David Bowie, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Caron, Harrison Ford, Hubert de Givenchy, Marvin Hamlisch, Gregory Peck, Nancy Reagan, Julia Roberts, Winona Ryder, and Donald Trump. Hollywood for Children also has a “Kids Board,” with such child-celebrity members as Raven Symone from
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper,
Shawn Toovey of
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,
Emily Hart from
Tommy,
Zachary Ty Bryan from
Home Improvement,
and Laura Bertram and Lani Billard of
Ready or Not.