Those were the topics — separately, and together — on everyone’s lips as a gaggle of luminaries from sports, entertainment and media packed into Ralph Lauren ’s Paris eatery Saturday evening in yet another high-wattage celebrity Olympic gathering in the French capital. The starry crowd at Ralph's Restaurant included Oscar winner Jessica Chastain, Nick Jonas, John Mulaney and Alan Cumming, among other entertainers. First lady Jill Biden arrived late and drew a large crowd around her.
“Saturday Night Live” executive producer Lorne Michaels was there, pointing to his shoes and noting they were still wet from the previous evening’s epic, and rainy, opening ceremony . “These shoes are not all-weather,” he explained. The ceremony had left many drenched, but most still very happy to be there — including Michaels.
“Let’s put it this way, I was watching in a place with a lot of stars, and nobody was complaining,” he said. Also not complaining: the Olympic athletes in attendance, who’d spent much of the previous evening on a boat in the rain. Had they been worried about catching cold? “It was a thought,” said Jeffrey Louis, a member of the U.
S. breaking team competing in the sport’s Olympic debut, “but then I figured we’d just all get sick at the same time." "So we all embraced it,” added Louis, who said he had tried to cover up with a poncho briefly, but when he put it down, someone swiped it.
But he survived the rains in good health — in any .