“This line is crazy,” said the broadcast journalist Don Lemon, as he walked toward the red carpet crush shortly after 7 p.m. on Thursday night.
He was bound for the Time 100 Gala, the annual black tie schmoozefest in Manhattan where a 100-person smorgasbord of luminaries — tech titans, activists, Oscar winners, pop stars, athletes and artists — was celebrated by the magazine as the most important people of the year.
If you honor them, they will come. And the celebrities who were feted at the event included Colman Domingo, Taraji P. Henson, Dev Patel, Patrick Mahomes and Dua Lipa.
Mr. Lemon, who arrived with his husband, the real estate broker Tim Malone, was not among the honorees. Still, he took questions from the journalists at the barricades who wanted to know about his recent wedding and which brand of tuxedo he was wearing for the night’s occasion.
“Suit Supply,” Mr. Lemon said. Then corrected himself: “No, Ralph Lauren.”
