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John Alexander with his painting Sailing on the Edge, 2015. On The Cover: Weathered Flag.
By Bridget LeRoy
John Alexander: The Work Lives On
John Alexander, whose art graces the cover of this week’s Independent, was born in Beaumont, Texas. In the late 70s, Alexander left Texas for New York. The artist currently divides his time between New York City and Amagansett. John Alexander has exhibited
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extensively in the United States and around the world with major retrospectives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. His work is included in the permanent collections at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Dayton Institute in Ohio, the Dallas Museum of Art,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Guild Hall in East Hampton, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles among others, as well as many distinguished public and private collections worldwide. He also created and designed the skull-shaped bottle for Crystal Head vodka, which is now selling in 60 countries around the globe.
If you weren’t blessed with artistic talent, what might you have ended up pursuing? In college, I minored in geology. I love the study of lost civilizations. But even as a little kid, all I ever wanted to be was an artist. In the
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© Tony Vaccaro Studio
Lee Krasner in her bedroom, with Tony Vaccaro reflected in the mirror.
Vaccaro’s East End Art World At Pollock-Krasner House
were staying in Leo Castelli’s house that summer. Images of Willem de Kooning dancing with Hedda Sterne are included in the exhibit. After six decades, the contact sheets and negatives for these images were discovered during a move. The exhibition features 20
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The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs presents the never-before-seen photographs of distinguished photojournalist Tony Vaccaro with the show “East End Art World, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro.”
to shoot Pollock and Krasner. The feature story was killed, but he held on to the images. These images appeared at the Pollock-Krasner House in an exhibit in 2010.
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Dreaming of the most delicious plate of mussels in The Hamptons? You’ll find it at Almond in Bridgehampton …
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My annual guide to the joys of summer It’s summer and you have been invited to a three-month-long party as your reward for living through another lousy winter. Here’s what to expect for the next 99 or so days:
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Ice-cold beer, beefsteak tomatoes, clams, lobsters, a big beautiful steak marinating in soy, garlic and ginger, fresh-cut flowers …
While you’re in Bridgehampton, get thee to the Candy Kitchen. It’s been the favorite breakfast and lunch place for the great and the near-great for years. Wonderful food and the best ice cream in New York state …
Incredibly fresh, sweet corn from that little farmstand on Sagg Main just south of Loaves & Fishes …
Jimmy Buffett singing “Cheeseburger in Paradise” on your car radio … Margaritas …
Eating at Estia’s in Sag Harbor, featuring the best breakfast in The Hamptons served by the nicest
The incredible sliced steak at Bobby Van’s in Bridgehampton. Charred on the outside, rare on the inside – it’s the best steak in The Hamptons …
A great way to enjoy a scrumptious Friday dinner in Bridgehampton is to go to Pierre’s for their savory Bouillabaisse Marseillaise …
You can’t go wrong eating at the East Hampton Grill, Nick & Toni’s or the Highway Restaurant & Bar in East Hampton, and the Dockside Bar & Grill or Beacon in Sag Harbor …
Follow the best chef in the Hamptons, Michael Rozzi, who is running the kitchen at The 1770 House. Michael used to run my kitchen at Della Femina Restaurant – he’s a sweetheart of a person and a great, great chef … Sag Harbor is hot with a lot of great new restaurants. Coming soon: Le Bilboquet, the popular New York City restaurant, is coming to the Sag Harbor pier. Scoring a reservation will make you a hero with your friends and family … My favorite restaurant for Italian food (the delicious clams steamed in white wine bring tears of joy to my eyes) is Cappelletti at 3284 Noyac Road in Sag Harbor. This is an unpretentious treasure. Modestly priced, it’s wonderful for families and kids. Luigi and Robin Tagliasacchi are the perfect hosts (he does the cooking) and, I swear, their made-on-the-spot cannoli is the best I’ve ever tasted. I had a
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Orange traffic cones wherever you drive … Margaritas …
Little kids coming out of the surf so teeth-chattering cold that you want to hug the warmth back into them …
If you have a yen for great Japanese food then you have a yen for Sen, a Sag Harbor restaurant favorite … And when you get yourself to Sag Harbor, go into tiny Cavaniola’s Gourmet Cheese Shop. It’s the best cheese selection in The Hamptons …
Browse for a great summer book at BookHampton in East Hampton. We need all the bookstores in The Hamptons to thrive. Buy a book for your kids, too. For crying out loud, take that cellphone out of your ear and put some knowledge into your head. Want to read a wonderful book about a great man? Pick up a copy of Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of An American Hero by my great friend, Dr. Rock Positano … Nasty hedge fund guys hopping off their own planes with a jaunty, arrogant strut. They have so, so much – why don’t they look happy? …
The worst of the hedge fund guys is a creep who has earned the title “the neighbor from hell” from those who live near him. Some day he will figure out that the size of his house won’t add anything to the size of his penis … Get used to having the subject turn to Trump at every dinner party. Want to do a good deed? Set aside $5 every time you hear someone say “Trump” and send the money at the end of summer to The Retreat, a domestic violence service in East Hampton that helps people dealing with domestic abuse … Chubby people in their fifties wearing cut-off jeans and T-shirts with dumb inscriptions …
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Bay Street’s Comedy Club Presents Colin Quinn
By Jessica Mackin-Cipro
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts will host Colin Quinn for a stand-up comedy show for Bay Street’s Comedy Club. The series opener will be held on Saturday at 8 PM. Colin Quinn is a stand-up comedian from Brooklyn. From MTV’s “Remote Control” to “Saturday Night Live” to Comedy Central’s “Tough Crowd,” Quinn is sure to give a memorable performance. Quinn has become known for his comedic one-man shows, on and off-Broadway, that offer his unique takes on history and growing up in New York City. As of 2015, he has written and starred in five shows: Irish Wake, My Two Cents, Long Story Short, Unconstitutional, and The New York Story, two of which he collaborated on with Jerry Seinfeld as director.
Quinn began performing standup comedy in 1984, and first achieved fame in 1987 as the sidekick announcer of “Remote Control,” which lasted five seasons. In 1989, he hosted the A&E stand-up showcase “Caroline’s Comedy Hour,” and wrote and acted in the comedic short/music video “Going Back to Brooklyn” with Ben Stiller. It was a parody of LL Cool J’s “Going Back to Cali.”
Quinn became a writer and featured player on “SNL” in 1995 and became a full cast member in 1997. Recurring characters and segments included “Lenny the Lion,” “Joe Blow,” “Colin Quinn Explains The New York Times,” and “Weekend Update.” Quinn had the recurring role of Hermie on HBO’s “Girls,” he played opposite Amy Schumer in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck. He can be seen in Sandy Wexler with Adam Sandler on Netflix. Colin Quinn The New York Story (directed by Seinfeld) and Colin Quinn Unconstitutional are now streaming on Netflix and his
web series “Cop Show” can be seen on lstudio.com. His first and last book The Coloring Book is now out from Grand Central Publishing.
Ticket prices range from $55 to $75 and are available online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Bay Street Theater box office at 631-725-9500, open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM.
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POWs he encountered, a man of true fortitude. “Decades later I voted for him for president which he would have won if not for Sarah Palin,” he says, laughing. “I sure didn’t like when Donald Trump made his disparaging comments about McCain’s sacrifices as a POW. If he knew what these men sacrificed, he’d never knock any POW.”
Laspesa says he often wonders what happened to those poor men whose homecoming was worse than their imprisonment. “On Memorial Day I will be thinking about them and my uncle and the sacrifices all our fighting men made for the rest of us.”
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“We were all swept up in the emotions of these POWs coming home,” says Laspesa. “Some of them imprisoned since 1966.”
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“After graduating from New York Institute of Technology in 1972, rather than getting drafted into the army, I joined the Air Force,” he says. “Because I had a college degree I was assigned to a medical administrative unit at a MASH unit at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines.”
“I will think of my uncle, Lieutanent Arthur Browngardt who was killed in action in WWII in the Philippines on Jan. 7, 1945. He was a captain in the US Army Air Corps, flying a B-25 bomber that he’d named the ‘Sag Harbor Express’ and was shot down over Angeles City and crashed into Luzon Cathedral, about 10 miles from where, coincidentally, I was later stationed.”
Independent / Courtesy James Laspesa POW WOW: Plaque commemorating 1973 Operation Homecoming for Vietnam POWs landing at Clark Air Force base in Philippines from the notorious Hanoi Hilton prison.
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Laspesa has some vivid memories of our Vietnam era POWs.
“I will go down to Chelberg & Battle American Legion Post 388 and pitch in,” says Laspesa, 68, who served in the United States Air Force at the tail end of the Vietnam War.
Laspesa’s uncle is one of 18 men from Sag Harbor who made the ultimate sacrifice in WWII, their names enshrined -- with 423 others who served -- on a brass plaque fixed to a granite rock as rugged as the men it memorializes in Marine Park.
Laspesa says that one incident that day in 1973 stands out as a testament to the unbreakable American spirit.
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On the waterside of a towering flag pole from which Old Glory snaps toward the sailboats of the harbor there is a second memorial to those who served in Korea and Vietnam. Flying beneath the Stars and Bars in the salty spring breeze is the black and white flag that reminds us daily of our MIAs and POWs.
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Judy, my wife, to all the fashion events and openings,” Gerson explained.
“Being a part of the whole fashion scene, I found it so exciting to become acquainted with American fashion personnel and stars.”
In the past, Gerson’s paintings were displayed at the Judith Leiber showrooms. When the buyers, many of whom were moversand-shakers in the fashion world, would come to see the new Judith Leiber collection, “They would see Mr. Leiber’s paintings,” said Ann Fristoe Stewart, director and curator of the Leiber Collection. Many would become collectors themselves.
It’s hard not to love the bags. They are, after all, some of the handbag industry’s finest creations. She is famous for her crystal minaudières, evening purses made of a metal shell often encrusted with Swarovski crystals. Plated with silver or gold, the creations can come in many forms, such as baby pigs, slices of watermelon, cupcakes, peacocks, penguins, and snakes.
Collectors around the world of Judith Leiber handbags have been taking note. Many have been celebrating with their own events to honor the bags. Currently another collector is mounting an exhibit in Phoenix in celebration of the show. “All of these collectors are the satellites of the center, the star right there,” said Gerson, referencing his wife, who sat across from him in their living room in Springs. The accolades he offered came with a great sense of pride.
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Also on display will be “Fashion Series,” a collection of paintings and prints Gerson created in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. The exhibit will feature a “fairly small group of prints that I created. I accompanied
Gerson designed charming and intricate gardens that surround the museum. They were created to elicit the vibes of an English garden. The museum itself is a Renaissancestyled Palladian edifice. With great attention to detail and design, the museum and gardens provide the perfect backdrop to display the acclaimed bags and paintings.
Like many artists, the two ended up falling in love with the hamlet of Springs in the 1950s. Gerson would paint and work on the garden while Judith would design patterns for her handbags. “We were invited on a weekend, we liked it so much... Of course at that point this was the hub of abstract expressionism. de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, and so on. What
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One of the best kept secrets in town, the collection was assembled in 2005 when Gerson and Judith Leiber built the space to house their works of art, offering visitors a retrospective of the works they have created throughout their illustrious careers.
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When you envision the most artful handbag, Judith Leiber should come to mind. To own a Judith Leiber handbag is to own a piece of history. Luckily for East Enders, more than 150 of the creations brought to life by the iconic designer are on permanent display at the Leiber Collection in Springs.
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“It was a very natural decision at the museum to include those [paintings] with the collectors’ handbags. Two really important fashion ideas from the two of them are coming together in one place,” she continued.
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of the Hungarian Nazi-run ghettos, where they lived in a basement with 60 other people. The two met while Gerson was a sergeant in the US Army and Judith was making purses for the secretaries of the American Legation in Budapest.
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Because Hungarian currency wasn’t worth much, the dollar went a long way in Budapest. “We were all paid in dollars; we were very wealthy,” Gerson recalled. In an impressive move, he took Judith to the opera, which she loved. “It was so cheap for us with our dollar. We had a box.”
“I was standing with a buddy. Born in Budapest in Two girls came 1921, Judith became up to us and the first woman to began to talk join the Hungarian to us,” Gerson Handbag Guild. recalled. “It To avoid Nazi seemed that one persecution during of the girls had a the Holocaust, her room in a nearby family escaped to a – Gerson Leiber apartment house set aside for house, the Swiss citizens. Her windows were not broken, and they father, a Hungarian Jew, was able wanted to find an American to rent to obtain a Swiss schutzpass, a it to,” he continued. Judith was one document that gave the bearer safe of the two girls. passage.
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“Our story was a good one. There were so many bad ones,” said Gerson.
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In The Hamptons With Holly Peterson
By Jessica Mackin-Cipro
political statements here, but I am showing how people are ignored or mistreated all over the place. I don’t much like books just about fancy people, I like the upstairs/ downstairs element as well…that’s why I tell anyone to think of this as “Downton Abbey” in bikinis.
It Happens In The Hamptons is the much anticipated third novel from New York Times bestselling author Holly Peterson (The Manny, The Idea of Him). The summer beach read follows Katie Doyle as she moves across the country to The Hamptons, hoping to find summer employment, new friends for her son, and a chance to explore a new love affair with George, a dazzling investor. What she finds is a strange cocktail of classes, and discovers Southampton isn’t all that it seems to be on the surface. The novel has been praised by author Jay McInerney as “A sizzling beach read with all the right ingredients: sex, romance, class warfare, bikinis, and a mysterious man.”
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I love Flying Point Surf Shop most of all. I go there almost every day for sunscreen or surfing equipment or a sweatshirt or flip-flops. I like the Crow’s Nest in Montauk or Navy Beach in Montauk on weekday nights for dinners with families and kids. I always drop into the Aerin store on Main Street in Southampton because I get near that store and feel like a slob and hope Aerin Lauder can help with a great lipstick or fabulous basket for my files. I tend to cook at home all the time, so I don’t go out on weekends for food, but I love take-out from La Parmigiana, especially the chicken parm…when I’m writing a book and alone in my house over three days in bunker mode, I get three chicken parms, keep them in the fridge and keep noshing on them cold in little bites all day…thinking since I’m having such small portions I must be dieting! Of course, nothing is better than cold pizza from Sam’s Pizza in East Hampton. For a little more upscale fare, I like Tutto il Giorno in Southampton for lunch or dinner with a girlfriend. They make a mean martini. If I down one, I leave my car in town and taxi home for sure. I make so much grilled fish and fresh vegetables from the gem-stone colored farm
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in Technicolor in any summer community…whether it be mountain, lake, or oceanside area where one-percenters roll in like an invading army from June to August. The cocktail of classes in the Hamptons…preppy old money, brash new money, and the vibrant local population is something I wanted to write about. Tensions are the life blood of any author and the mixing it up of all these groups creates hilarious situations that were very fun to “fictionalize.” I like to document these worlds as a journalist, that’s why you’ll read such intense attention and detail on the food, clothing, cars, and expressions of the three worlds I depict. But I do think the “lighter” topics like cars and fashion are housed in something much more substantive which is the divisions and inequality in this country. I’m not really making bold n
We caught up with Peterson to find out more about her new book and how she enjoys The Hamptons.
and I love accurately depicting scenes and situations. The Hamptons are filled with much to fill a dozen novels: romance, illicit sexual situations, enormous egos, gorgeous natural settings that lure everyone in like Paradise, old world families claiming the land and their preppy, tattered way of life like frontiersmen, new money people acting like insane martians from a .0001% planet, landing in Uber helicopters called Blade (if not their own custom designed ones), hostesses having parties that cost six figures, fashion, sports cars, and intense posing and competition for all of the above.
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You can find Peterson on Saturday at Exhale Spa in Bridgehampton from 8 to 11:30 AM and at Pottery Barn Southampton from noon to 4 PM. On Sunday she will be at Harbor Books in Sag Harbor from 11 AM to 1 PM for muffins and mimosas. On June 3 you can catch her at Southampton Books from 5 to 7 PM and at BookHampton in East Hampton on June 16.
What are some of your favorite Hamptons spots?
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(Left) The Nat Geo series “Genius” stars Johnny Flynn and Geoffrey Rush. (Right) Executive producer Sam Sokolow with author Walter Isaacson at the Rainbow Room, following the Nat Geo series’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
It’s All Relative: Sam Sokolow And “Genius”
By Bridget LeRoy
When, as a nine-year-old, Sam Sokolow pitched in a series of softball games with some of his parents’ friends in Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park, he wasn’t thinking about his future -pitching projects as a producer. “I was just excited to be playing,” he said. It never occurred to him that one day he and the game’s
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Of course, the game in question was Sag Harbor Softball, founded by John Leo in the mid-’70s, and one of the earlier incarnations of
the East Hampton Writers and Artists Charity Softball Game, which will host its 69th game at Herrick Park in August.
“In hindsight, it was a pretty remarkable experience for a kid,” said Sokolow, executive producer of “Genius” and president of EUE/ Sokolow Entertainment. “But you’re a kid. You’re not thinking, ‘Wow, my catcher is the guy who
broke Watergate,’ you’re thinking, ‘Wow, my parents are letting me play softball!’”
Sam’s parents, Mel and Diane, were Bridgehampton residents and film and television producers. “It’s difficult to have such fun, fabulous parents and not follow in their footsteps,” Sokolow said. Mel passed away in 1992, and the house Continued On Page 75.
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Joel Moens: A Single Image Is Worth Thousands More
By Nicole Teitler
In our highly technological society, supersaturated with images off the internet, Belgian artist Joel Moens de Hase began using computers for digital works in 2011. The observer is sure to be intrigued, perhaps even aroused, by a single perspicuous image that when closely analyzed includes the use of thousands of provocative shrunken down images – squares of butts, lingerie, waistlines, and so forth. In an effort to express his view of the digital era, Moens keeps a database of 70,000 images from the internet on file. He then transforms between 5000 and 15,000 of these images into a single mosaic, after adjusting the color to fit the larger picture. His artistic expression allows for dual interpretation, the whole or the fragment. Beauty, lust, and innocence remain very much in the eye of the beholder. Moens procures his inspiration from the mystery of women, his work being a tribute to all the aspects that make up the beautiful complexities of the gentler sex. At the heart of it all, the symbiosis between man and woman is what fuel Moens’s creative process; the passionate desire and innate human condition of that sense of longing between the two beings. Human nature aside, it’s also the Woman, with a capital ‘W,’ a divine creator that is both independent and full of the love he adores.
Moens procures his inspiration from the mystery of women.
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Serenity and Dizziness is part of his new beach series recently exhibited at the Monika Olko Gallery located at 95 Main Street in Sag Harbor.
Moens met local gallery owner Monika Olko four years ago through a mutual friend. Ever since
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His creative motto, “Develop your creativity, it brings happiness and it is the future of humanity,” bring his concept of a self-portrayal design saying, “I would be the musical instrument the model is holding.”
With an international following, he maintains a liberated spirit that is futuristic in nature.
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The composition of his work is far more important than the models that compose each individual image. He finds models through an official agency for the large pictures, with a particular liking for Poland native Olga Kaminska. Yet, it is the
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Scenes of the female form and rendition tributes of classical artworks are primarily what comprise Moens’s collection. Right now he is working on a collaboration with a major group of European galleries, to be announced at a later time, that he hopes will bring his career to a higher level.
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their introduction he has been visiting The Hamptons seasonally, with plans to explore the North Fork and Montauk this summer.
emotional uniqueness of a model that attracts his attention most.
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Patrick’s Pages
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Lots of things have been happening though. The first Monday in May brings the Met Gala for one, which I sent one of my top PMc photographers to cover. Also, that night, I was at the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club show house opening where my friend, Richard Mishaan, designed the first floor drawing room. It was absolutely gorgeous as was his wife, Marcia Mishaan. Many grown-up boys and girls stopped by that night to ooh and ahh the fabulous mansion. John McEnroe and wife, singer Patty Smyth arrived first. I seated them on the couch for a photo but realized soon that the couch was off limits -sorry Richard. Everything in the room was tres valuable.
Dinner followed at Vaucluse (in the private room), with a Mishaancentric group including Nicole Miller with husband Kim Taipale, Dennis Basso, Andrew Zaro, Tracey and Brian Snyder, Lisa Jackson, Bettina Zilkha, George Farias, with not even one reality 18
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treat yourself to this book! 2. Susan Silver’s memoir signing celebration was held at Michael’s on Thursday, April 20. 1. John Demsey, Susan Silver, 2. Louise Sorel.
TV star although we did have a genuine Emmy award winner, Fran Drescher. Many toasts were made and much fun was had. I particularly enjoyed Dennis and Fran talking, those voices are so fun to hear. They should have a radio show together.
Speaking of TV, Estee Lauder’s John Demsey hosted a party for Susan Silver and her memoir Hot Pants in Hollywood at Michael’s Restaurant. The book is fun and she talks about her time writing for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” as well as Hollywood in the 1960s and on. Susan is a wonderful person -
At the party, I saw John LeBoutillier, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, David Patrick Columbia, Kate Betts, Richard Johnson, Michael Gross and Barbara Hodes, Judy Twersky, Ed Klein, Diane Dimond with Michael Schoen, Rob Shuter, Susan Magrino, Diane Cleghorn. The only one I didn’t see was Michael himself. Michael McCarty and his artist wife Kim McCarty were off on a private adventure. Everyone needs a day off I suppose!
Trish McEvoy’s book The Makeup of a Confident Woman was more of a society event with a lot of very confident women like Sondra Mack, Denise LeFrak, Bonnie Strauss, Phyllis Mack, Rita Bronfman Janet Hershaft, Margo MacNabb Nederlander, Geri Emmet, Claire Mercuri, Judy Licht, Continued On Page 82.
4. Richard Mishaan’s “Well Traveled Room” at the Kips Bay Boys and Girls show house opening night preview was held on Monday, May 1. Nicole Miller, Marcia Mishaan, Fran Drescher, Bettina Zilkha, 2. Patty Smyth, John McEnroe, 3. Martha Stewart, 4. Irene Ho.
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7. The 2017 TIME 100 gala was held at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, April 25. 1. John Legend, 2. Margot Robbie, 3. Naomi Campbell, 4. Lindsey Vonn, Charlie Rose, 5. Tammy Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds, 6. Kate Couric, John Molner, 7. Harvey Weinstein, Blake Lively.
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2017 Hot Pink Party “Super Nova” presented by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation was held at Park Avenue Armory on Friday, May 12. 1. Elizabeth Hurley, 2. Donna Karan, Victoria Beckham, 3. Shirin von Wulffen, Coralie Charriol Paul, 4. Tracy Anderson, Nick Riley, 5. Chris Taylor, Sandra Lee, 6. Kyle MacLachlan, Desiree Gruber, 7. June Ambrose, 8. Laura Lauder.
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Tri-Club Dinner Photos by Richard Lewin
The Tri-Club dinner was held at East Hampton Point in Springs last Thursday night, bringing together the local Lions, Rotary, and Kiwanis clubs. The organizations celebrated “A Salute to Service,” honoring Ben and Bonnie Krupinski as the Lions Club Citizens of the Year. On hand were East Hampton Lions Club president Tina Piette, Rotary Club president Joe Hren, III, Montauk Lions Club president Gene Prohaske, and Kiwanis president Henry Uihlein.
i-tri Bikes East Hampton Street Fair Photos by Elizabeth Vespe
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Rick White, president of the Kiwanis Club of East Hampton, presented the Kiwanis’ gift of 18 bikes to the i-tri girls from East Hampton Middle School during a brief ceremony at Maidstone Park in Springs Saturday. Other Kiwanians at the ceremony: Diana Weir, Laura Weir, Bill Sagal, Gerry Schneider, Tim Yardley, Lucy Yardley, Sean Murphy, George Hear, and Bob Savage. The bikes were presented in honor of avid biker and Kiwanian member, Cliff Bekkedahl, who recently passed away. His wife Vicki and three of his four daughters – Barbara, Alison and Carolyn – were there for the ceremony.
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Paws In The Park Photos by Morgan McGivern
Hosted by the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation at Red Creek Park in Hampton Bays, the annual Paws in the Park dog walk Saturday brought together pups and their people for picnicking, a doggie fashion show, music by New Life Crisis, and tasty food truck treats.
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Lucia’s Angels Photo by Nicole Teitler
The annual Reconstructed Bra fashion show and auction, held last Thursday at the Southampton Social Club, benefitted Lucia’s Angels and the Coalition for Women’s Cancers at Southampton Hospital. Models hit the runway in wearable works of art crafted by area artists.
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Muskets, Meigs & History Photos by Elizabeth Vespe
The 240th anniversary of Meigs Raid was celebrated by the Third New York Regiment of 1775 and the Sixth Connecticut Regiment as they marched along Main Street during the second annual Sag Harbor Cultural History Weekend Saturday. Festivities included a boatbuilding demonstration at Custom House, historical lectures at the town library, and guided tours. The re-enactment concluded at the Long Wharf with the firing of muskets.
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Summer At Gurney’s
By Jessica Mackin-Cipro
Gurney’s Montauk will host exciting summer programming for its 2017 season. The oceanfront resort and spa will have a little something for everyone.
To further its commitment to wellness, Gurney’s Montauk is expanding its partnership with the Wellth Collective, a design firm that blends wellness and travel. Gurney’s will bring top trainers and classes to Montauk each weekend
including Y7, Bari Studio, City Row, and Exhale. This will also include trainers like Alex Kate Knight, Holly Rillinger, and more.
For the second year, Gurney’s will host its Fashion Collective, a curated collection of fashion and lifestyle brands, from Memorial Day through Labor Day. In addition to partnering up with resort-wear brand 6 Shore Road, Gurney’s will host pop-ups with Joie, featuring a contemporary and sophisticated aesthetic. Also there
a soothing aromatic marine cooling mist to revive the senses. For the second summer, Gurney’s has partnered with celebrity hair stylist Ric Pipino to offer hair services to guests and visitors alike at the new Ric Pipino Hairspace. They will offer a deep conditioning hair treatment that can be applied to your hair prior to spending a day at the beach. The salon can also style your hair in a fun braid while the treatment is in, and blow it out after your day in the sun.
Gurney’s offers the only indoor ocean-fed seawater pool in the US. This summer Gurney’s will offer the After Sun Ritual at its spa. The 50 minute treatment includes a gentle aloe gel wrap for the body, leaving skin soft and refreshed. Then, a moisturizing face mask is applied and set, while you receive a serene lavender oil scalp massage. After a rinse, the journey continues with an application of a healing and nourishing coconut emulsion for a luminous finish and
For more info visit www. gurneysmontauk.com.
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Iconic Writers To Appear At Bridgehampton Library
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interview the authors.
Gaines, the well-known author of the bestseller Philistines At The Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons, knows a few things about staging events at libraries. “I was involved in the East Hampton Library event. In fact, I was co-chair for three years,” he related. “I’m the one who changed the name from ‘Novel Night’ to ‘Authors’ Night’.
In 2008, Galanes debuted as a weekly columnist for the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times. His "Social Q's" column, which answers reader questions about the sticky situations that they face in every corner of modern life, quickly became one of the most consistently popular and most-read features of the newspaper.
Galanes, who earned degrees from Yale College and Yale Law School, worked as an entertainment lawyer before embarking on a career in journalism.
Steven Gaines wanted to help raise the profile of the Bridgehampton Library and at the same time raise some much needed funds.
Gaines was shown the door when Alec Baldwin joined the board.
It didn’t take long for Gaines to dig in after promising the folks at Bridgehampton Library he would help out. He quickly put together a summer-long series featuring some of the hottest names in the business. But Gaines didn’t stop there. The
Candace Bushnell, Erica Jong.
first event, on Sunday at 6 PM, features three of the most critically acclaimed – and famous – authors in the country, any of whom could fill an auditorium. The three writers, Candace Bushnell, Erica Jong, and Gail
Sheehy changed the way the world looks at women – and in many cases how women look at themselves. There’s more star power. The renowned New York Times columnist Philip Galanes will
As a literary journalist, Sheehy was one of the original contributors to New York Magazine and has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984. She has interviewed thousands of women and men and written 17 books. Her earliest revolutionary book, Passages, was named by a Library of Congress survey as one
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Grant Haffner ‘Mohawk Trail’ At Roman Fine Art
By Jessica Mackin-Cipro
Artwork by Grant Haffner will be exhibited, at the artist’s first solo exhibition in over a decade, at Roman Fine Art in East Hampton with “Mohawk Trail,” opening this weekend. An opening reception will be held on Saturday from 7 to 9 PM.
For over a decade, Haffner has created captivating paintings of Hamptons’ roadways. (Arguably, no other artist captures the South Fork locales we love in the same fashion.) His renditions of familiar roads and landmarks -- often set ablaze in dayglow, sunset colors -- have made him one of the most sought-after artists on the East End.
Haffner, who lived in the Hamptons for most of his life, moved to Massachusetts in 2016. He still continues to paint scenes of the Hamptons. His works have earned
him an international following. Created from photographs collected during his travels through the area, those familiar with his depictions of the Hamptons can easily recognize their favorite routes in his work. The exhibition also marks a new chapter in his career as a painter as he creates an entirely new body of work, exploring a new landscape. From the bays and farmlands of the South Fork to the mountain ridges of Western Massachusetts, Haffner captures the roads, trails, and colors of hills and mountains of the Mohawk Trail region. The viewer can see the new landscape through familiar eyes, with a fresh perspective.
Damien Roman, owner of Roman Fine Art, has represented Haffner since 2009, but this is their first solo exhibit together at the gallery. Roman Fine Art specializes in
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Town Guide : Vaughan Cutillo
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WHO: Vaughan Cutillo, founder of Montauk Brewing Company INSTAGRAM:
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I love spending weekend afternoons at the brewery. The tasting room is a great place to meet new people; we don’t have a TV so people can enjoy great beer and conversation. It’s a welcoming and super casual place for locals and tourists to spend an afternoon in the brew barn – just steps from the surf. Hiking the numerous trails in Montauk is something I do as often as I can. My favorite is the Shadmoor State Park cliff trail that leads from town to Ditch Plains. The views are incredible and the fresh air and open space out here is very important to me.
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Point, Southampton Social Club, Wölffer Wine Stand, the list goes on.
Speaking of Wölffer Wine. I will drink rosé. I will be a “rosé-all-day” cliche. Also, I will take a day to go wine tasting on the North Fork.
Speaking of the North Fork, I will definitely spend a day in Greenport. Back on the South Fork, I will splurge (calorically and financially) on a Sant Ambroeus gelato.
I will barbecue and spend as much time with friends and family as possible. This is what summer is all about, right? Ok, now that I have the food and drink portion of the bucket list taken care of (priorities!), I will hike the trails in Montauk. I will finally learn how to play tennis.
I will try to have zero nervous breakdowns if I ever need to park in East Hampton Village on a holiday weekend. I will spend as much time on the beach as I can. I will get there in the morning and stay for a bonfire at night. In fact, I will throw many bonfires. I’m a pro at planning them, not such a pro at building them, but there’s always someone who is. Every summer I say I’m taking a trip to Block Island, where I have not visited since I was 11. This summer it will happen.
I will take the boat out every weekend. Even if it’s just for an hour. There’s really no excuse not to. I will start saving now for Super Saturday. I’ll triple my budget on my yearly shopping spree that all goes to a really good cause (OCRF. org). I will become a supermodel. Well, that may be a stretch. But I have signed up to model in the “Canines Down the Catwalk” benefit for the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation and Gabby Wild Foundation. I’ll be walking the runway with a pup that’s up for adoption in an eco-friendly fashion show. Indy reporter Nicole Teilter will be modeling as well. Come see us! Tickets are available at www. southamptonanimalshelter.com.
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