Iphoto event not showing pictures

I had to restore from Time Machine my entire disk. However, since I have done the restore one event in Iphoto appears with no thumbnails and is grey yet all others are fine. When I open the grey event, all other photos in that event are blank (Grey) and I cannot select the individual pictures or videos. The metadata about the photo is still there (eg file name, date...)
I tried rebuilding the thumbnail cache by doing the CMD Option and selecting the first option but that did not work. Any Ideas? I'm concerned about going further and destroying my other events.

Control-click on one of the thumbnails of a missing photo and select "Show File" from the contextual menu. That should take you to the folder in the Finder that contains the file. If it does then you need to fix the database file for the library. If there's not file found the original files are missing.
If the files are found then launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed to rebuild the library. Select the *+last three options+*.
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If that doesn't help rebuild the library using iPhoto Library Manager as follows:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
1 -Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
2 -Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your User/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
3 - Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File->Rebuild Library menu option
4 - In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
5 - Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be untouched for further attempts at fixing or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.

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