mnli premise: 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. hypothesis: Despite being invited ,no celebrities attended the event. 