| Issue #1 - March 30, 2007 |
South O’ the Highway (and the North too)
Amagansett resident Alec Baldwin will be leading the discussion after the Bay Street Picture Show screening of The Big Country this Saturday.
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The Talent Show, a short film by Betty and Michael Paraskevas, will screen at the San Diego Children’s International Film Festival from April 22 until May 5. The Film has all your favorite characters in it from The Cheap Show: Duncan Biscotti, Baby, Maurice the Chef and Pico Smiley as they attempt to put on a talent show. Visit www.sdchildrensfilm.org for more information.
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East Hampton resident Ralph Lauren has just decided to partner with The Richemont Group to create a line of luxury Ralph Lauren watches. Richemont also makes watches for Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger Le Coultre and Piaget.
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Aretha Franklin’s agent, Quogue resident Ruth Bowen, is helping her friend, Page Morton Black, chairman of the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, on its 50th anniversary gala to be held on May 16 at the Pierre Hotel.
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Last week, John Randolph Hearst and his wife, Barbara, famous for their annual party for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting that was always full of Hamptons celebrities like Mercedes Reuhl, Frank Langella, Joe Pintauro, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Pia Lindstrom, Gladys and Robert Nederlander, Roy Scheider, Phyllis Newman and Ellen Adler, finalized their divorce.
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Adele Smithers, president of the Christopher D. Smithers Foundation, is helping promote the off-Broadway play about the founding the Alcoholics Anonymous called Bill W. and Dr. Bob. Adele has invited the cast to the R. Brinkley Smithers Awards luncheon on April 19 at Tavern on the Green.
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Hamptons photographer Patrick McMullen threw a lavish birthday party for himself on St. Patrick’s Day at Arena in New York City, where he danced with such beautiful guests as Lenore Zann, the actress best known for portaying Amagansett Goddess Marilyn Monroe in The Marilyn Tapes. Lenore also starred in the Antoine Fuqua thriller, The Shooter, with Mark Wahlberg.
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East Hampton’s Stewart Lane, the producer/playwright, is helping his friend Ward Morehouse III, with whom he wrote off-Broadway play If It Was Easy, in promoting Ward’s new book, Broadway After Dark.
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John V.H. Halsey, President of the Peconic Land Trust, announced the re-launch of the organization’s website, www.peconiclandtrust.org, last week. The new site will have event pictures, information about Peconic Land Trust projects and many options for involvement in the Land Trust’s various activities.
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Last Monday night, Spike Lee celebrated his 50th birthday at Bruno Jamais Restaurant in Manhattan surrounded by his friends Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Al Roker, Gayle King, Q-Tip, and Dan’s Papers favorite professional basketball coach, Isaiah Thomas. Instead of hiring a DJ, Tonya Lee chose tunes from her iPod to keep her husband’s friends in the dancing mood all night long.
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Dan’s Papers is still accepting submissions for tee-shirt designs to be worn by the runners of the 2007 Dan’s Papers Potatohampton Minithon to benefit the Bridgehampton Child and Recreation Center. The minithon is scheduled to begin at the Bridgehampton Monument at 9 a.m. on May 27. For more information on how to submit a tee-shirt design or sign up for the minithon, email joan@danspapers.com.
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Alison Chace is back on Plum TV’s Morning, Noon and Night show. She recently guest-hosted the show, interviewing various Hamptons restauranteurs, such as Red Bar’s David Lowenberg, for Hampton’s Restaurant Week. She and her crew also took a trip to the Rainbow Room where Chace interviewed Mercedes Rhuel, John Chamberlain, Paul Goldberger and Roy Furman at Guild Hall’s 22nd Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards.
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Hamptons fashion designer Jackie Rogers will present her Fall 2007 collection over Brunch at The International Polo Club in Wellington, FL on Sunday, April 15 in conjunction with the Quarter Finals of the U.S. Open.
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The producers of Still the Drums, a feature film being shot in the Hamptons this summer, are still looking for talented kids and adults to star in the film. Email app1776@sbcglobal.net for information.
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Elegant Affairs CEO Andrea Correale is making celebrating Passover and Easter easier for the Hampton set by creating easy meals that can be delivered for the holidays anywhere in the Hamptons or New York.
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