At the event, I encountered actor Hector Elizondo, recently of “Princess Diaries,” and “Runaway Bride,” and most memorably the hotel manager in “Pretty Woman.” Also present was Mark Feuerstein, of “Good Morning, Miami,” and originally of “Caroline in the City.” Both of them seemed in good spirits, but I didn’t expend the energy needed to press through the throng to reach them (though I did hear Mark comment on how he almost had bought a Sony Viao computer system like the one I was drooling on. The main speech, preceding the live auction, was given by producer Walter Parkes, who wrote 1983’s War Games and produced Minority Report and The Ring recently, and did a bunch of good stuff in between. He really has been a pioneer in exploring the use of technology, both in the stories he produces and in the ways he produces them.