text: The groups sponsored a celebrity-filled benefit , featuring Whoopi Goldberg , Glenn Close , Susan Sarandon , and others performing excerpts from playwright Eve Ensler 's off-Broadway Vagina Monologues . Critics ' favorite a celebration by Close of the word cunt and a pitch by Goldberg for the use of fuzzy stirrups in gynecological exams .
  
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  Despite being invited , no celebrities attended the event .