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Saturday 31 October 2015
Lady Gaga gets jazzy at tribute to Ryan Murphy
SANDY COHEN Gaga contributed to the Lady Gaga, left, and executive producer/director/writer Ryan Murphy arrive at the Los Angeles
AP Entertainment Writer total during a live auc- premiere screening of “American Horror Story: Hotel” at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on Saturday, Oct.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lady tion conducted by Sharon 3, 2015.
Gaga is continuing her Stone. Gaga bid a winning
jazzy period. $200,000 on a photograph Associated Press
The entertainer performed of Elizabeth Taylor flipping
an hour-long jazz set Thurs- the bird. Cuba Gooding, Jr. Someone brought her a Cheek.” performance was inspired
day at the American Foun- engaged in a brief bidding
dation for AIDS Research’s war with billionaire Barry glass, which she drank in She played piano as she by Murphy.
tribute to Ryan Murphy. Diller for a pair of platinum
“I love Ryan so much, and diamond earrings. Diller one swallow. sang her new single, “Til it For her closing number,
I’m so, so happy to be won with $60,000.
here,” said Gaga, who stars Gwyneth Paltrow hosted Gaga performed “Bang Happens to You,” a song Gaga ditched her dress for
on the current season of the fundraiser at Milk Stu-
the writer-director’s FX hit, dios, which also included Bang (My Baby Shot Me she co-wrote with Diane a tuxedo jacket and not
“American Horror Story.” appearances by Julia Rob-
“He’s really my friend and erts, Angela Bassett, Matt Down),” which she record- Warren for the 2015 doc- much else. She sang “La
he’s a wonderful person,” Bomer and Cheyenne
she said. Jackson. Murphy may have ed for her 2014 album with umentary “The Hunting Vie en Rose” — in French,
Gaga dedicated the ‘60s been the guest of honor,
standard “Call Me Irrespon- but Gaga was the reign- Tony Bennett, “Cheek to Ground.” Gaga said her bien sûr.q
sible” to Murphy, who was ing diva. She wore a long
the guest of honor at am- dusty pink gown with floor-
fAR’s Los Angeles Inspira- sweeping kimono sleeves,
tion Gala. Murphy pledged an intricate diamond col-
to serve as “a lifelong am- lar, and a platinum blonde
bassador” for the organiza- beehive.
tion, which aims to find a “You know, there are a lot
cure for AIDS by 2020. of gentlemen here, but no-
Murphy said the evening body’s offered me a glass
raised $3.1 million toward of Champagne yet,” she
that goal. said from the stage.
