| Issue #40, January 12, 2007 |
South O’ the Highway (and the North too)
Some of Dan’s Papers’ Hampton celebrities and friends sent in their New Year’s resolutions this week. Here are some of our favorites…
“I resolve to lower my voice.” – Roy Scheider.
“I’m putting my cat, who we named Bronx Botero, on a serious diet. He is weighing in at 24 pounds and his vet says he is clinically obese and I’m afraid it’s catching. Every time he looks at me and smiles I feel I have to give him a treat but I have resolved to get him down to a healthy weight… So no more treats for Bronx Botero.” – Adrien Arpel.
“Be More Timely; Do Pilates or Yoga; Take Shorter Showers.” – Alexa Ray Joel.
“Take care of my health and body.” – Isabel Scanlon Sepulveda.
“I resolve to connect each day with gratitude, humor, and the humility of perspective. To focus on the moment instead of lugging the baggage of the past into expectations of the future. To say “no,” when appropriate, with grace and guiltless glee. To meditate daily on an image of peace and good will on earth. Finally to accept the reality that life happens on its own terms between and despite resolutions.” – Frances Alenikoff.
“My resolution is: to make 2007 the best year ever!” – Donald Trump.
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The smell that consumed Manhattan, which came from a great day-long belch emitted by a swamp in Jersey City, had a deletorious effect on Southampton's Howard Stern. Smelling the worst at his studio in Manhattan, he shut his broadcast down fifteen minutes early.
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Richard Stengel, the new editor of Time magazine, is beginning to publish the magazine as a series of ramblings by interesting writers instead of a factually correct summary of the weekly news by the editors, apparently duplicating Dan’s Papers. Oh, well.
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Last Saturday, Hamptonite Mayor Rudolph Giuliani greeted returning soldiers from Operation Iraqi Freedom along with professional bull riders, including three-time world champion Adriano Moraes, on the opening night of the Professional Bull Riders season, held at Madison Square Garden. Amid the streaming fireworks and belting of the “Star-Spangled Banner” by country star Clay Walker, the former mayor donned a fringed leather jacket while waving to the adoring crowd, as an American flag was unfurled and fireworks lit up the letters USA spelled out in flames on the floor of the arena.
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Amagansett resident Sarah Jessica Parker was home in the Hamptons for the holidays, but on Monday she’ll be back at work, presenting awards at the 64th Annual Golden Globes, along with fellow presenters Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant, Terrence Howard, George Clooney, Cameron Diaz, Jake Gyllenhal, Salma Hayek, Felicity Huffman, John Stamos, Ben Stiller, Hilary Swank, Justin Timberlake, Rachel Weisz, Reese Witherspoon and James Woods.
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East Hamptonite and Executive Director of Renewable Energy Long Island Gordian Raacke and Sag Harbor resident Sarah Gordon were chosen to attend a training camp led by Al Gore and a team of scientists in Nashville, TN next week, where they will learn how to give his famous lecture and slide show, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and teach people across the United States how to combat global warming.
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Sometime Shelter Island resident Uma Thurman was saved from claustrophobia before the holidays when her bodyguard, Leonard Taylor, pried open an elevator door with one arm and used his belt and other arm as a pulley, lifting the elevator, the star and seven of her friends to safety.
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Sagaponack resident and owner of The Old Stove Pub, Coula Johnides, has donated $1 million to the Greek Orthodox Church of The Hamptons, the single largest donation ever received by the Church.
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Francis Bock of East Hampton will be the first paid, full-time East Hampton Town Trustee in 321 years, with a salary of $36,000 per year.
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In November, North Sea resident and former director of the Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community library, Dennis Fabiszak, was appointed the new Director of the East Hampton Library.
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This Valentine’s Day Weekend, Angelo Monte, Jr., and his wife, Candice, will be locking lips at Gurney’s Annual Valentine’s Day Longest Kiss Competition. Call Ingrid Lemme at 631-666-1737 to sign up.
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On Sunday, the day before the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder of The Hampton Synagogue and author of Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King and the Jewish Community, and Imam Omar S. Abu Namous, will attempt to overcome some of the issues and difficulties that exist between the Jewish and Muslim communities during “Jews & Muslims: A Conversation” at the Islamic Center of New York. The program concludes with remarks by Dr. Israel Singer, Chairman of the World Jewish Congress and the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC).
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The John Drew Theater’s Artistic Director Josh Gladstone and actress Kate Mueth’s 5-year-old son Austin is one of the stars of Tom Stoppard’s well-received new trilogy at Lincoln Center, The Coast of Utopia. Austin Gladstone is featured in the second play, Shipwreck.
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Dylan Blue, the son of Southampton architect Russell Blue and his wife, Sara, plays fellow Hamptonite Matthew Broderick’s son in the new movie Deck the Halls.
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Hampton’s resident Dr. Joseph Zammit-Lucia is preparing for his upcoming photography exhibition at the United Nations. First Steps focuses on photographs that present positive solutions for saving the environment. The exhibition will be held in the Secretariat Lobby at the United Nations Headquarters from February 19th until March 2nd, 2007.
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Seamus Doyle, Vice President and Senior Lending Officer, and Lee Stevens, Assistant Vice President and Branch Manager, have announced that the Bridgehampton National Bank will be opening a new branch on Hampton Road in Southampton Village this month, accompanied by a month-long celebration.
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On Thursday, The Hampton Theatre Company’s run of Edward Albee’s Everything in the Garden, directed by Sarah Hunnewell and starring Jessica Ellwood, David Seiniger, Andrew Botsford, Ellen DiStasi, Cathy Decker, Billy Finn, Gordon Gray, Claire Lyons, Matt Palace, Roy Timmerman, and Sue Vinski opened at the Quogue Community Hall.
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