| Issue #39, December 22, 2006 |
South of the Highway (and north too)
In phone calls tapped by the British Secret Service, Southampton resident and IMG Talent owner Ted Forstmann was overheard making plans with the late Princess Diana to spend a week together at Forstmann’s Southampton estate in the summer of 1997. The princess expressed interest in spending the rest of the summer in a rental home nearby with her two sons. These plans never came to fruition and were thwarted by the British Secret Service, who deemed taking the princes to Southampton a “security risk.”
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Montauk’s most celebrated private property, Andy Warhol’s “Eothen,” has finally found a buyer. J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler has purchased the property for under $30 Million, a modest sum compared to the original asking price of $50 Million.
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This past October, Hamptonite Daniel Rose delivered the keynote speech at Fondazione Cariplo’s Forum on Philanthropy, a three-day conference in Milan, Italy on the topic of encouraging private philanthropy in Europe. His speech centered on American philanthropic lessons for Europe, as he believes that America is different than Europe in its approach towards private philanthropy.
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Hamptonite Dr. Gerry Curatola and a team of four dentists, including Periodontist Dr. Ancy Verdier, Dr. David Mambrino, Dr. John Koutsoyiannis, Dr. Anthony Garofalo, and dental technicians Peter Kouvaris and Jack Manno of the JK Dental Laboratory in Port Washington donated their time to give Riverhead resident and struggling actor Dondi Rollins a brand new smile, for free. Rollins had been sent to Dr. Curatola by Pastor Mike Smith and Pastor Rick Salodon of the Living Water Full Gospel Church in East Hampton, because Dondi’s dental problems had been both professional and health obstacles for the aspiring Broadway star nearly all his life.
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Hamptons socialites Pamela Gross, Kathy Hilton, Joanne de Guardiola, Jamee Gregory, Karen LeFrak, Cornelia Bregman, Debbie Bancroft, Audrey Gruss, Alison Stern, Barbara McLaughlin, Patty Raynes, Jessie Araskog, Grace Meigher, Somers Farkas, Clelia Zacharias, Bambi de la Gueronniere and Ruth Fleishmann parked their holiday shopping bags last week to attend one of the annual Doubles’ Christmas Luncheons, which featured dessert tables bearing eggnog baked Alaska, Gâteau St. Honoré, Bouche du Noêl, chestnut and graham cracker crumb cheese cake, chocolate mousse, Christmas cookies and ginger snaps, strawberries, and cherries.
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Legendary New York City dive bar Siberia, formerly the city’s one and only subway bar and favorite casual watering hole of Mayor David Dinkins, Hamptonite Mayor Ed Koch, Robert Morgenthau, Matt Dillon, Julia Stiles, Heather Graham, Lou Dobbs, Jimmy Fallon, Shepherd Smith and sometime bartender Winona Ryder, will be closing its doors this weekend due to a dispute with the landlord, Siberia owner Tracy Westmoreland announced last week.
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Hamptons-lover Uma Thurman was spotted last week in the back of a church wearing a beautiful bridal gown. No, she and long-time flame Andre Balasz of Shelter Island didn’t tie the knot – she was just shooting a scene for her new movie The Accidental Husband.
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CMEE has a big line-up of holiday activities beginning tomorrow and continuing until New Year’s Day. Arlene and Alan Alda will be hosting Friday Pizza and Pajama Night and reading Mrs. Alda’s books to children. The following week, CMEE’s Around-the-World Solstice Workshops will lead up to an all-day festival celebrating the New Year.
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Noyac’s Linda Stocknoff, a major fan and board member of the internationally acclaimed David Parsons Dance Company, hosted an opening night dinner to celebrate the Company’s Joyce Theater Season. The evening also toasted the premiere of a new work, “Nascimanto Now,” which is the result of a collaboration between Parsons and Brazilian jazz great Milton Nascimento commissioned by Steven and Vickie Morris. Guests included Tony Guida, Stephanie French, Barbara Rondie, Neil and Patti Katzman, David Harrison, Manuel Romero, Richard Kielar, Cheryl Katz, Kay and Richard Sherman, Shelly Hershon, Edward Callaghan, John Wegorzewski and Parson’s co-founder and long time collaborator and award winning designer Howell Blinkney.
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Hamptonite Posy Feick didn’t let a hip to ankle cast stop her from hosting an early evening buffet dinner to welcome The Canadian Brass to town for their Lincoln Center performance this weekend. The indefatigable arts patron greeted such guests as Shirley and George Brickenden, Elizabeth Jones Glaeser, Michelle Barrett, Esthi Aubort, Angela and Richard Colter with their son Brock, Billie Allen Henderson, ICM’s Paul Bongiorno and Byron Gustafson and Canadian Brass stars Jereon Berwaerts, Gene Watts and Joe Burgstaller.
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Former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the Honorary Chairs of Ronald Brown’s Evidence Dance Company’s Annual Winter Gala, “Grace in Winter,” on January 29 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel’s Hudson Theatre. Renowned art expert, historian and past president of The Studio Museum of Harlem, Lowery Stokes Sims, is gala chair. Vice Chairs are Gayle Atkins Perkins, Carl Perkins and Debra L. Lee. The glittering evening will include a cocktail reception hosted by Mitchell-Madison Group/Neil Lowe, dinner followed by a performance by the internationally acclaimed troupe, sponsored by Booz, Allen, Hamilton, and a dessert reception hosted by Lola C. West. The committee includes prominent Hamptonites Judge Bernard and Joyce Mullins-Jackson, Susan Taylor and Kephra Burns, Marva Small, Reginald Van Lee, Gwen and Gerald Adolph, Jaylaan Ahmed-Llewellyn, Doria L. Ball, Sherry B. Bronfman, Yolanda and Alvin Brown, Alicia and Daniel Bythwood, Judy Byrd-Blaylock and Ronald Blaylock, Debra Martin Chase, Kathryn and Kenneth Chenault, Willie Dennis, Jeri de Vard, Greg Smith, Dwight Johnson, Janice and Christopher Williams, Pamela Joyner and Alfred Guiffrida, Michael McCollom, Yvonne Doggett Rhea and Lisa Walker.
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Congratulations to Quogue resident Howard B. Cowan, CLU ChFC with Cowan Financial Group in New York City, who has been accepted as a member of the GAMA International Speakers Bureau, one of the most valuable and significant resources in the life insurance and financial services industry.
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