PHOENIX RISES

It was the benefit as follow-up story. Last October, Vanity Fair published a profile of Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, the president of Phoenix House, whose plans for a new drug rehabilitation center in Southern California fell apart when Nancy Reagan pulled out and some big-bucks donors asked for their money back. Vanity Fair felt moved to help out, and the Just Say Yes! benefit in Hollywood was bom.

Grant Tinker donated a Culver Studios soundstage; Gianni Versace underwrote decoration costs; Mickey Drexler, president of the Gap, pledged support; Fox chairman Barry Diller pitched in for a cyclorama screen; Phyllis McGuire contributed the lighting; and New York hotel tycoon Ian Schrager, party designer Robert Isabell, lighting whiz Arthur Weinstein, and Party Planners West created a night of magenta magic.

Lauren Bacall introduced the party's highlight: Robert Morse in an excerpt from Tru, courtesy of producers David Brown and Lewis Allen. Then on came Kid Creole and the Coconuts, courtesy of CBS Records, setting off a rush to the dance floor led by Daryl Hannah and Anjelica Huston. Also boogying or watching was a unique mix of power brokers, glamour pusses, and artists: Ray Stark, Doug Cramer, Brandon and Lilly Tartikoff, Suzanne de Passe, Larry Gordon, Mimi Rogers, Dennis Hopper, Jane Holzer, Ed and Carol Victor, Karole Armitage and David Salle, Richard Meier, and Ed Ruscha. Anita Sarko, queen of Manhattan D.J.'s, set the pace.

Best of all, almost half a million was raised for a new Phoenix House.